Digital Bandidos and Hilltop Studios will release Curse of Resthaven on PC, Mac, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 29, 2026. An expanded demo with progress that carries into the full game will arrive first.
Resthaven will be destroyed six days after Ambrose arrives. Players will have that time to find out why before the island resets. Digital Bandidos and Hilltop Studios will release Curse of Resthaven on 29 October 2026 for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. GamesIndustry.biz identified 29 October as the confirmed date for those four platforms in its report on the event materials.
Release and demo
The date puts the gothic narrative roguelite just before Halloween. The Nintendo Switch version is still in development and has no release date. The October launch applies only to the four confirmed platforms.
The official release description from Digital Bandidos and Hilltop Studios sets the date for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It does not give Switch the same date.
The next public test arrives on 8 October. The existing Steam demo will be replaced by a much larger version. The main change is in the structure. The current demo uses shortened two-day loops. The new build will use the full six-day cycle planned for the game. The Steam demo listing identifies it as the next public step for Curse of Resthaven.
Progress will carry into the finished release. Players who complete the demo's core quests can earn bonus gold and skill points for use in the final game. The trial is tied directly to launch rather than being a sample that ends with no lasting effect.
The listed details are clear. The full game launches on 29 October 2026. The expanded demo arrives on 8 October. The standard edition costs $19.99 / £17.75 / €20.49. The demo will cover all four areas of Resthaven town, while the current version covers a shorter two-day loop. The price comes from game press coverage and release listings. The supplied material does not include separate confirmation from a major independent outlet.
A six-day mystery
Curse of Resthaven follows Ambrose after he becomes governor of a struggling island colony. He arrives looking for his missing niece, Amalia. The political appointment soon becomes a fight to survive when a cosmic cataclysm wipes out Resthaven six days later.
Ambrose then wakes on the day he arrived. The reset gives him the game's central advantage: information survives even when the island does not. Each attempt turns what he has learned into a possible way to change the outcome. The six-day structure and retained knowledge also explain why the expanded demo moves beyond its current two-day limit.
Investigation sits alongside resource management. Players will trade for supplies, improve local businesses, question townsfolk and take part in card-based expeditions before the next catastrophe. These activities give Ambrose the tools he needs to understand what is happening across repeated runs. The game descriptions place them across four districts of Resthaven, giving the loop a wider setting than one enclosed location.
Evidence and limits
The announcement confirms the game's genre, story setup, platforms, release date and playable demo structure. It does not provide frame-rate targets, resolution modes, PC specifications, loading measurements or platform-by-platform performance information. The supplied material does not support a technical judgement about how the final release will run on any announced system.
The same limit applies to the available footage. Digital Bandidos points to a release-date reveal and a latest trailer. The announcement does not say that either video is an unedited gameplay capture. It also does not explain which build was recorded. The confirmed mechanics come from the game description and demo plan, not from independent testing.
That distinction matters for a roguelite built around repetition. A trailer can show Resthaven's tone and the broad shape of its systems. It cannot show whether the six-day cycle creates meaningful variation, whether the card-based expeditions stay readable over time or how clearly the game passes information between runs. Those questions will need the expanded demo and, later, the finished version.
Hilltop Studios is making the project as its second title after Lil' Guardsman. Digital Bandidos is publishing it. Readers tracking how independent teams take a contained concept to launch can compare it with NGB's earlier release coverage. Curse of Resthaven is taking a different path through its pre-release demo.
What players receive
The standard edition has a listed price in three currencies. The announcement does not mention other editions, pre-order bonuses, subscription requirements or extra launch content. Curse of Resthaven is described as a single-player game. The purchase decision therefore rests on its story loop and management systems, not multiplayer support.
The expanded demo is the best evidence available before release. It will show the complete six-day rhythm, all four town areas and a progression path that carries into the full game. That should tell prospective players more than the current two-day trial. The final balance, performance and ending of the story will still be untested.
Curse of Resthaven has a sharper launch idea than a standard story demo because failure is part of the structure. The island's destruction is not simply an ending to avoid. It sets the timetable for every trade, interrogation and expedition.
Based on the available evidence, Hilltop Studios is offering a focused single-player experiment with a meaningful pre-release test. It is not making unsupported technical promises. That makes the 8 October demo the date to watch before the 29 October launch.
A time loop in a roguelite lets a failed run produce progress through knowledge, upgrades or resources carried into later attempts. That is different from replaying the same level. The player's understanding becomes part of the progression system.
In Curse of Resthaven, the six-day limit should make planning central. Only the expanded demo and final release can show whether the loop keeps discovery alive after the opening mystery. For now, the release plan is specific enough to draw attention, while the lack of performance data keeps any judgement provisional.
