Beast of Reincarnation Deluxe Edition vs Standard: Price, PC Requirements, Length and Reviews

The Beast of Reincarnation Deluxe Edition costs $69.99, $10 more than the $59.99 Standard Edition, and every extra is cosmetic or a resource boost: two Shiba skins for Koo, a hat and a sword for Emma, 100,000 Amber and some vegetable seedlings. There is no extra story. Standard owners can add the same content later with a $9.99 Deluxe upgrade. Game Freak’s action RPG has been out since 4 August 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and it is included in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.

We stock the PC version as a Steam key: the Beast of Reincarnation Deluxe Edition Steam key is in stock with instant delivery. Below are the prices we saw on every storefront on 24 September, including two sales that end soon, plus the PC specs, Steam Deck status, how long the game takes to finish and how its launch went.

When we switched Steam to other regions the same day, the full prices were £49.99 and £57.99 in the UK, €54.99 and €63.99 in Germany, 189.99 and 219.99 AED in the UAE, and 199,99 and 229,99 zł in Poland, all with the same 20% off until 1 October. On Xbox, a digital purchase includes Xbox Play Anywhere, so one copy covers the Series X|S and Xbox PC versions. The PlayStation listing adds a PS5 Pro Enhanced badge.

Our store sells the Deluxe Edition as a Steam key, published by Fictions. The page address still contains “preorder” because we listed it before launch, but it is the finished game and has been available since launch. When we opened the page from Poland on 24 September, it showed 229.99 PLN, in stock with instant delivery, and a green “Can be activated in Poland” check. That is the same as Steam’s full Polish price for the Deluxe Edition. While Steam’s sale runs until 1 October, Steam is cheaper (183,99 zł when we checked), so if you are buying before then, compare the two prices first.

The “row” at the end of the page address is the supplier’s region label for this key, not a promise that it works in every country. The product page does not print a list of countries. Instead, it checks the country you are browsing from and only offers the key where it can be activated, so look for the “Can be activated in …” line showing your country before you pay. Once you have the key, activate it in Steam from Games → Activate a Product on Steam. Our guide to activating a game on Steam with a product key covers the errors you might see. If you would rather pay with wallet credit, a $50 US Steam gift card covers the sale price of the Standard Edition, and a $10 US Steam gift card covers the Deluxe upgrade.

The game launched at the same moment everywhere. Before launch, Fictions and Game Freak confirmed on Steam that it would unlock at 00:00 UTC on 4 August 2026. That was 5 PM Pacific on Monday 3 August in the US, 1 AM in London, 4 AM in Dubai and 9 AM in Tokyo on 4 August. This is why Steam lists 3 August and the console stores list 4 August. The game shipped at version 1.0.6. Standard owners could buy a Deluxe upgrade from day one, according to the launch-day announcement. Game Freak developed the game and Fictions published it. It was first shown as “Project Bloom” in 2023. It is the studio’s first game on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Yes. When we opened the Xbox store listing on 24 September, it showed the game as “Included in Ultimate”, and listed PC only (PC Game Pass) and Ultimate under “Included in these subscriptions”. It has been in the service since launch day. Game Pass Essential and Premium do not include it: on those tiers you have to buy the game to stream it through Xbox Cloud Gaming. The PlayStation Store listing we checked sells it outright and shows no PS Plus inclusion.

If you mainly want to finish the story, a month of Game Pass costs much less than buying the game: our Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 1 Month code (US) covers Series X|S, PC and cloud. Our guide to redeeming and stacking Game Pass codes explains how the time adds up if you already subscribe. To buy it on Xbox instead, a $50 US Xbox gift card and a $10 top-up cover the $59.99 Standard Edition.

On 24 September the Steam page rated Beast of Reincarnation Unsupported on Steam Deck, and Valve’s compatibility report gives graphics performance as the reason. None of the six post-launch patch notes mentions the Deck. That matches what RPG Site measured at launch: 23–30 fps at 720p on the lowest settings, with the reviewer advising against playing it on the Deck. If you have a Deck and a gaming PC, streaming from the PC is the better option for now. The Xbox listing shows a “Handheld Optimized” badge, but that is Microsoft’s label for Xbox-on-PC handhelds and does not change the Steam Deck rating.

According to HowLongToBeat, Beast of Reincarnation takes about 23 hours to finish the main story, about 28 hours with side content, and about 39½ hours for a completionist run. Times are similar on all three platforms: the main-story average is 23h 33m on PC, 21h 45m on PS5 and 22h 11m on Xbox Series X|S. The completionist figure comes from only 28 submissions, so treat it as a rough guide. One more number from the same page: 5.8% of HowLongToBeat users who logged the game have marked it as retired, meaning they stopped playing.

Critics were split. On OpenCritic, fewer than half recommend it. In the reviews we read there, critics praised the combat, the traversal and the art direction, and criticised the predictable story and the repetition. Metacritic rates it “Mixed or Average” on every platform, with 51% of PS5 critic reviews positive and 48% mixed. Steam’s rating was already “Mixed” in launch week, and recent reviews (64%) are at about the same level as the English lifetime score (63%).

Furushima said some parts of the game still “need polishing”. He also said players had responded well to fighting alongside Koo and to the post-apocalyptic atmosphere, as GamesRadar+ reported. The patch schedule since then shows the team followed up on those problems.

Beast of Reincarnation was one of the headline launches in our August 2026 release calendar. If you would rather wait for a bigger discount than the current 20%, our Steam sale dates for 2026 lists the next confirmed Steam sales.

Every price, score, spec and date on this page was read directly from the source on 24 September 2026. The Steam, PlayStation Store and Xbox listings were set to the United States, and the regional Steam prices came from Steam’s own store data. We took the screenshots the same day, and the Virtwave price is what our product page showed when we opened it from Poland. We have not played the game ourselves, so anything about how it plays is quoted from the sources below.

• Beast of Reincarnation on Steam: editions, US and regional prices, the 1 October sale, PC requirements, features, languages, review summary and Steam Deck status. See also the Deluxe DLC page for its contents.
• Official Steam announcements from Fictions and Game Freak: the 00:00 UTC unlock and corrected specs, the launch-day post and the v1.0.12 patch notes, along with the earlier patch notes on the same news feed.
• Xbox store listing: prices, Game Pass tiers, Play Anywhere and the release date.
• PlayStation Store listing: prices, the 8 October sale end, Deluxe contents and the 4.01-star rating.
• HowLongToBeat: completion times by play style and platform.
• OpenCritic and Metacritic: critic and user scores.
• GamesRadar+: the director’s comments to 4Gamer.
• RPG Site: Steam Deck performance at launch.
• Wikipedia: development history and the “Project Bloom” announcement.

How we work is set out in our editorial policy. We will update this page if the Steam Deck rating, Game Pass tiers or prices change.