Zombie Lab Release Date — Early Access on October 9, 2026

The Zombie Lab release date is October 9, 2026. On that day the game left its coming-soon state and went live on Steam for Windows as an Early Access title at $9.99. That is the short answer, and it comes straight from the Steam store listing for app 5182900, which is the only official source for the launch. Everything else on this page is the surrounding detail: what the launch version is, what the demo adds, and what the store does and does not say about what comes next. For the mechanics of the release build, see the gameplay page.

The launch date and how it was verified

The store page carries a single release line, October 9, 2026, and the same field in the Steam app details API reports the game as no longer coming soon. Those two readings together are what confirm the game is actually out rather than simply dated.

Fact	Value
Release date	October 9, 2026
Status	Released, Early Access
Platform	Windows
Launch price	$9.99
Developer / publisher	Outlaw Games / Pixel Games

The game is listed under four genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation and Early Access. Early Access being one of the genres rather than a separate badge is the clearest signal in the official data that the launch build is intended to keep changing.

What shipped on day one

Day one is a single-player Windows build. The store categories list Single-player, playable at your own pace, playable without timed input, and Family Sharing. There is no multiplayer category, no co-op, no Steam Workshop entry and no controller support listed.

The content described on the store page is the experiment loop: a lab, an undead subject, weapons, machines and traps, and results tracked as damage, durability and recovery. Steam achievements are not attached to the app, and the store page publishes no achievement names. What the Early Access version is missing relative to the final release is not documented yet.

The demo and its own release date

Zombie Lab has a separate demo with its own Steam app, and that demo page is dated October 3, 2026. Six days between the demo and the full build is the only release-adjacent timeline the official data contains.

The demo matters for a release-date question because it is the piece that let players try the lab before the paid build arrived. The store page does not describe what the demo includes or whether progress carries into the full game, so those details are not documented yet.

Pricing, discount and regional detail

At launch the United States price is $9.99 with no discount. The store data reports the same value for the initial and final price and a discount percentage of zero, which is the signature of a full-price launch rather than a launch-week sale. Prices in other regions were not captured, so treat $9.99 as the US figure only.

There is also no published roadmap, no season pass and no paid content attached to the app. The full version carries a 2025 copyright line naming Pixel Games, and the only store page link outside Steam is the publisher site.

What is not known about updates and the full release

How long Early Access is planned to last, when the full release is targeted, and what will be added between now and then are all not documented yet. No patch notes were available on the Steam news feed for the app when this page was written, so there is no verified update history to list.

For that reason, treat the release date as the one firm date and everything after it as open. The update page tracks what can be verified about the version state, and the price page covers the store figures in more detail.