Phantom Blade Zero on Steam: Standard vs. Digital Deluxe — Prices, Bonuses, and Regional Pricing

Pre-orders for Phantom Blade Zero opened on August 12, 2026, simultaneously on PS5, Steam, and the Epic Games Store. The Steam page carries two purchase options: the Standard Edition at $59.99 (¥268 in the China store) and the Digital Deluxe Edition at $69.99 (¥328). With the October 29 launch about a month away, the practical questions come down to four things: what actually separates the two versions, what the pre-order bonuses are, whether the deluxe upcharge buys anything confirmed, and what happens if the order needs to be cancelled.

What follows covers the Steam version only: every confirmed difference between the two editions, the exact pre-order bonuses, a regional price rundown across eight stores, and Steam's refund rules for pre-purchases. Pricing and bonuses for the PS5 and Epic versions are set on their respective store pages; the site's general pre-order guide covers the platform-by-platform picture.

Two editions, one confirmed difference: the price

Steam lists two purchase packages for Phantom Blade Zero. The first is the plain pre-purchase of the game — the Standard Edition — at $59.99 in the US store and ¥268 in the China store. The second is the "Phantom Blade Zero Digital Deluxe Edition" (影之刃零数字豪华版 on the Chinese page) at $69.99 and ¥328 respectively. These are two separate packages under the same store page: the deluxe option is not an add-on or DLC layered on top of the game, but a standalone purchase that bundles the base game with the edition's perks. The gap is $10 in the US store and ¥60 in China, roughly 22 percent of the base price on the Chinese side.

As of September 28, 2026, the Standard Edition is priced as follows across the regional stores checked:

The dash in the deluxe column means those regional deluxe prices are not included in this table; the local figure appears by switching the store region in the top-right corner of the Steam page. Every number in the table was read from Steam's regional store pages on September 28, 2026. Regional list prices are independent figures set by the publisher — the ¥268 China price and the $59.99 US price are not currency conversions of each other. The ¥268 figure is also a common price point for recent premium Chinese single-player releases: Black Myth: Wukong and Lost Soul Aside both list at ¥268 on the Chinese store, and Phantom Blade Zero sits on the same price band. Outside China, store prices can move with local tax and currency policies, so treat the table as a snapshot of the day it was taken.

This pricing covers Steam only. The PS5 version and the WeGame channel in China each have their own edition structure and pre-order perks that do not map one-to-one onto Steam; the site's piece on the Chinese license and the WeGame version has the details on that side. For what the store page's other labels — achievements, cloud saves, Family Sharing — actually mean, the site's Steam store label walkthrough covers them one by one.

The pre-order bonuses: Treasure Basin and the Legacy outfit

The Steam page lists two pre-order bonuses in the purchase section:

• An accessory called Treasure Basin, which increases the drop rate of Remnant Dust by 10 percent;
• An outfit called Legacy.

One line in the bonus description matters more than the items themselves: the page states that both can also be obtained through in-game progression. These are early unlocks, not pre-order exclusives. Players who buy after launch can still earn both items by playing; what pre-purchasers get is ownership of them from the first minute of the game.

On Treasure Basin, the only stated function is the 10 percent boost to the Remnant Dust drop rate — the store text does not explain how the material is earned or spent, so the bonus stops at that single number. The official bilingual names, for reference, are Treasure Basin (聚宝盆), Legacy (传承), and Remnant Dust (意识尘埃). The fine print also settles who receives the bonuses: by the wording on the page, they follow the act of pre-purchasing rather than a specific edition, so a Standard pre-order includes the same Treasure Basin and Legacy as the Digital Deluxe pre-order. Whether PS5 and Epic carry identical bonuses is a question for those storefronts.

What the extra $10 buys: no list on Steam, official lists elsewhere

On Steam itself, neither the English nor the Simplified Chinese page lists the contents of the Digital Deluxe Edition. The only deluxe-specific information on the page is the name and the price: no soundtrack line, no artbook line, no early-access period, no cosmetic bundle. The official pre-order announcement on the developer's site, published on August 12, also names platforms and store links without distinguishing edition contents.

Within the Steam store, the picture as of September 29 is this: the extra $10 or ¥60 corresponds to nothing itemized on the page, the pre-order bonuses apply to both editions, and no DLC entries exist under the title — the two pre-purchase packages are the only purchasable content the game has on the store. That statement describes how Steam presents the edition, not whether an official contents list exists anywhere. One does, on two other channel pages.

The first is the PlayStation Store product page: the product description lists, under Digital Deluxe Edition, Full Game, Wulin Legend, Blood-Steel Form, Digital Artbook, and Digital Soundtrack (OST) — the complete game, two exclusive outfits (Wulin Legend and Blood-Steel Form on the English page; 武林傳說 and 機械魔軀 on the Traditional Chinese page, 武林传说 and 机械魔躯 on the Simplified Chinese page), a digital artbook, and the digital soundtrack. That list was still present when re-checked on September 29, 2026. The second is the WeGame pre-sale page in China: per reports from 17173 and Sohu's games channel in mid-August, its digital deluxe edition bundles the base game with the exclusive outfits 武林传说 and 机械魔躯, an in-game artbook bonus, and an in-game soundtrack bonus — the same list documented in the site's Chinese license and the WeGame version piece. Whether the Steam deluxe edition matches the other channels' line for line is not explicitly confirmed anywhere on the Steam page.

For a Steam buyer, those cross-channel lists are currently the main basis for judging what the extra $10 buys. Two practical points deserve a moment of thought before ordering:

• Buying the Standard Edition remains the conservative default. Set against the two channel lists above, the deluxe increment is concentrated in outfits plus artbook and soundtrack bonuses, so whether it is worth $10 is a call the lists let a buyer make deliberately;
• No upgrade path has been announced either. The Steam page offers no way to convert a Standard pre-order into a Deluxe one, and the official announcement does not mention paying the difference — if the verdict later flips toward deluxe, the fallback may be purchasing the Deluxe Edition as a separate transaction.

For anyone still undecided, the wishlist is the zero-cost alternative: wishlisting purchases nothing, but Steam sends a notification at release, and the store page remains the first place any edition information would appear.

Which one to pick, three situations

Just the game itself. The Standard Edition is the complete game. Nothing has been announced as cut from it or gated behind the deluxe package, so the base price buys everything currently confirmed to exist.

Mainly in it for the pre-order bonuses. Treasure Basin and Legacy follow the pre-order, not the edition (see above), so the extra $10 buys nothing extra — a Standard pre-order carries the same two items.

Deciding by the contents list. An itemized list can already be read on the PS Store and WeGame pages (see the previous section); the Steam page does not confirm its own edition matches line for line, but the shared edition name and the identical price gap make those lists the best available reference. Weigh the four items against the $10 gap and decide. Since a Standard pre-order can be refunded in full at any time before launch (see the next section), buying Standard now and revisiting later carries almost no cost.

One scheduling note belongs here: the Steam page displays October 28, 2026 as the release date in some regional time zones, while the official unlock falls on October 29 — the discrepancy is a time-zone artifact, and the site's unlock time explainer walks through it in detail.

If the order needs to be undone: Steam's pre-purchase refund rules

Steam's refund policy handles pre-purchases explicitly. When a title is pre-purchased that is not playable before its release date, a refund can be requested at any time before release, for any reason; the standard 14-day / two-hour playtime window only starts counting from the release date. Requests made before release carry no playtime condition, since the game cannot have been played yet. Applied here: any day before October 29, the pre-purchase can be cancelled in full, and both editions are treated identically by this rule.

The mechanics are straightforward. The request goes through help.steampowered.com: select the pre-purchase in the purchase history, pick a refund reason, and submit. The policy states that approved refunds are issued in full within a week of approval, returned to the original payment method where it is supported; some payment methods cannot receive refunds, and in those cases the full amount is credited to the Steam Wallet.

This makes an early order a low-commitment move on Steam: a pre-purchase locks in launch-day access and the pre-order bonuses, not an irreversible expense. Even after release, a refund remains possible under the standard rules as long as playtime stays under two hours within 14 days of release.

PS5 and Epic play by different rules — PS Store in particular restricts cancellations of pre-orders based on how far before launch the payment happened. When weighing platforms, the site's refund and cancellation comparison lays out the differences before the order is placed.

FAQ

If Standard is purchased now, can it be upgraded to Digital Deluxe later? There is no official answer yet. The Steam page has no upgrade option and the developer's announcement does not mention one; the deluxe contents can be judged from the official lists on the PS Store and WeGame pages before committing either way.

Why do regional prices differ? Regional pricing is set per market by the publisher. The ¥268 China price and the $59.99 US price are independent list prices, not conversions of one another, and purchases are billed at the list price of the store region the account uses.