WITCHBROOK
Countdown and delay timeline
Witchbrook release date: January 28, 2027
Last checked 2026-10-29. Sources are linked beside the claims they support.
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Planned release: January 28, 2027
Witchbrook is scheduled for January 28, 2027 on Windows PC and the announced consoles. The official release post, MonsterVine's independent report, Steam and Nintendo support that date. The GamesPress release is the publisher's newswire copy, so it does not count as independent of the official blog.
The countdown uses the calendar date, not an invented global unlock hour. PlayStation US displays 12:00 PM UTC on January 28. That is a single-store time and must not be applied to Steam, Nintendo or Xbox.
91 calendar days until the planned January 28, 2027 release date. This uses your calendar date, not a confirmed global unlock time. The schedule may change.
How the window moved
| When | What changed | Where I read it |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Magic-school concept proposed by Rosie Ball and Abi Cooke. | Back to School; single-source official account of the internal pitch, not a dated public reveal |
| Early public history | Spellbound was an earlier title. Exact first-public-reveal dating is not settled here. | Eurogamer.es places Spellbound in 2016; the earlier research's Fandom timeline placed the working title in 2017. The two should not be merged into one exact date. |
| 2018 | Renamed Witchbrook. Development later paused for Wargroove. | Eurogamer.es and Fandom |
| 2025 | A Nintendo Direct showed the game with a Winter 2025 window. | Eurogamer.es retrospective and the official delay post. The public first-look video has verified title/channel metadata, not an upload date from oEmbed. |
| 2025-10-15 | Winter 2025 moved to 2026. Extra platforms and languages mentioned. | Development update |
| 2026-06-19 | Team said certification, bugs, ports, localization and polish could all move a date, so they would not name a day yet. | Life at Witchbrook |
| 2026-10-27 / 28 | Date set to January 28, 2027, with PS5, $24.99, physical plans and Kiara. | Blog dated Oct 27; press wire and Eurogamer.es dated Oct 28 |
Why this is not a 2026 release
The October 15, 2025 update moved Winter 2025 to the following year. The October 2026 announcement names January 28, 2027 instead. No single technical cause for missing 2026 is established. Life at Witchbrook lists submission delays, bugs, ports, localization and polish as general schedule risks, not a diagnosis of the final delay.
Every confirmed store shares the same calendar day: Steam (Windows), Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. Platform-by-platform notes live on the platforms page.
Questions on this page
Is Witchbrook out yet?
No. On October 29, 2026 the Steam, Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox pages still showed coming soon, wishlist, or announced. The shared date is January 28, 2027.
Was Witchbrook supposed to release in 2026?
A 2026 window replaced Winter 2025 on October 15, 2025. The dated announcement in late October 2026 moved the launch to January 28, 2027. There was no official 2023 or 2024 window.
What time does Witchbrook unlock?
The US PlayStation page displays January 28, 2027 at 12:00 PM UTC. That is a PlayStation-specific listing, not confirmation of a simultaneous global unlock on Steam, Nintendo and Xbox.