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\"First-person<\/p>

Phantom Line Prologue<\/strong> launches for free on Steam on 26 October 2026<\/strong>. It’s the first playable chapter of Phantom Line, a 1\u20134 player co-op tactical shooter from Antistatic Studios that mixes military combat with paranormal horror in a Europe tearing itself apart in a nuclear war.<\/p>\n

If you liked GTFO, Ready or Not or Gray Zone Warfare and wished they had monsters from another dimension, this one is worth a look. Here’s the release date, what’s in the Prologue, how the H.U.S.K. body-swap system works, PC requirements and what we know about the full game.<\/p>\n

Phantom Line: Prologue at a glance<\/h2>\n\n
Release date<\/strong><\/td>26 October 2026<\/td><\/tr>\n
Price<\/strong><\/td>Free<\/td><\/tr>\n
Platform<\/strong><\/td>PC (Steam, Windows)<\/td><\/tr>\n
Developer \/ publisher<\/strong><\/td>Antistatic Studios<\/td><\/tr>\n
Players<\/strong><\/td>Solo or 1\u20134 player co-op (online and LAN)<\/td><\/tr>\n
Genre<\/strong><\/td>PvE tactical co-op horror shooter<\/td><\/tr>\n
Full game<\/strong><\/td>Phantom Line, listed for 2027 on Steam<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

When is the Phantom Line Prologue release date?<\/h2>\n

Antistatic confirmed on 29 September that the Prologue launches on 26 October 2026<\/strong>, and repeated the date in its October devlog: “26 October. Report for duty, Operators.” No launch time has been shared yet. It has its own Steam page, separate from the full game, so you can add it to your library on the day without buying anything.<\/p>\n

Is Phantom Line: Prologue free?<\/h2>\n

Yes. Antistatic says the Prologue launches “completely free”. It’s an introductory chapter that offers “a glimpse of the bigger experience” the studio is building, not the whole game.<\/p>\n

What is Phantom Line about?<\/h2>\n

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You play an Operator<\/strong> in an elite special-ops unit that deals with anomalies, bizarre events hidden from the public, for a mysterious megacorp called Mortfield Industries<\/strong>. One of Mortfield’s research sites in the Iron Corridor<\/strong>, an Eastern European region already torn by international tension and paranormal activity, has gone silent. You’re sent to investigate just as nuclear war breaks out.<\/p>\n

So your squad is fighting on two fronts: tears in space-time and monstrous entities on one side, and a full-blown human conflict on the other. Antistatic describes Phantom Line as a dedicated PvE<\/strong> game: no player-versus-player.<\/p>\n

What’s in Phantom Line: Prologue?<\/h2>\n

From Antistatic’s launch announcement, the Prologue includes:<\/p>\n