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The planned Early Access date
Wanderburg was scheduled to enter Steam Early Access on September 8, 2026. The main Steam listing identifies the game as App 3624140, developed by Randwerk and published by Sidekick Publishing. This is the planned Early Access release, not a confirmed launch of the finished version or evidence that a purchase has succeeded.
The date announcement was published on August 26, followed by a global time announcement on September 6. Both belong to the game's official release communications and describe the same planned event. For players deciding when to check the store, the time announcement is more precise than a calendar date alone, because September 8 begins at different moments around the world.
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The announced unlock times
The official announcement schedule lists 22:00 JST in Tokyo and 14:00 BST in London on September 8. Those times convert to 13:00 UTC and 21:00 in Beijing or Shanghai on the same date. These are equivalent times for one planned unlock, rather than separate regional release days or observations of an unlocked game.
Arka Sarkar's September 7 Destructoid countdown also gives 13:00 UTC and attributes the timing to the developers. That is useful confirmation of how the announcement was reported, but it is not an independent installation test. Keep the timezone abbreviation with the time when sharing the schedule, especially London's BST, rather than reducing the announcement to an ambiguous "2 pm."
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What the morning snapshot confirms
The supplied research captures the morning of September 8 in Beijing, before the scheduled evening unlock. The English Steam page was still not open for the main game's release at 11:12:58 Beijing time. Actual availability after that observation remains 待确认; this page does not turn the passage of the planned hour into a claim that release occurred.
The practical distinction is between an announced release and an available product. A store date or countdown tells you when the publisher planned to open the game, while a later store check would be needed to establish what actually happened. Use the main listing for the product and official announcements for any revised schedule, without treating this historical snapshot as a live launch monitor.
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Early Access is not version 1.0
The official Steam FAQ estimates an Early Access period of six to twelve months, with room for that estimate to change. It does not provide an exact version 1.0 release date. Adding six or twelve months to September 8 would produce a calculation, not an announced deadline, so the full-release date remains 待确认.
For planning purposes, keep three separate questions: the scheduled Early Access opening, whether that opening actually occurred, and when the finished version will arrive. Only the first has a precise announced date and time in this snapshot. The estimated development period answers a different question and should not be read as a promise that every feature or the final release will arrive on a particular day.