False Hero Updates

False Hero is still moving. The full Windows Steam release is 22 September 2026, pulled forward one week from 1 October because the solo developer said the build was ready and the calendar was crowded. The demo has been public since 4 June 2026 and has eaten multiple patches — hitboxes, camera, languages, inventory, difficulty. This hub is the changelog index. Dates and mechanical detail live on release date and demo patch notes.

Nothing here is a rumour mill. If a sentence is not on Steam news, in patch text, or on the store page, it does not belong.

The calendar that matters

• Playtest window — announced in spring 2026 with an official trailer. Useful as history; the public demo replaced it.
• 4 June 2026 — demo goes public. First chapter, two bosses, steal loop.
• Mid-June — Steam Next Fest appearance; WASD remap, pixelize toggle, Combat Art counter.
• July — Combat Art upgrades in the tutorial area, Birth-land bugfix, Insight-farming tutorial text, shallower poison.
• August — difficulty options in boss-refight, Polish language, inventory overhaul, camera smoothness, more boss poise cuts.
• Late August — release pulled to 22 September. Developer says armor pieces and Combat Scrolls are in, NPCs mostly need voice acting, plus secrets and older-area art passes.
• 22 September 2026 — launch day. Single-player, Windows, Steam Cloud, achievements, full controller support.

How to read patches as a player

Hitbox notes mean you should update before you record a complaint. Camera notes mean the controls page is not flavour. Language notes mean a friend who wanted Polish can come back. Difficulty notes mean Ignorance can be practised without pretending the fight is optional.

Balance notes on Book Throw frequency, Flamethrower damage, Evasive Thrust hitbox, and Spectral Blade size are why the tier list is labelled as a demo list. If you copy a June video’s damage, you may be copying a number that no longer exists.

What launch still has to prove

The 27 July announcement said all armor pieces and Combat Scrolls were implemented and new NPCs were waiting on voice acting. Secrets, visual updates on older areas, and a lot of testing remained. That is a solo-dev launch plan: content in, audio and polish in the remaining weeks. It is also why this wiki will not publish a fake item database. Clothing is cosmetic until a patch says it is not. Scrolls equip in Equipment. God powers are a store bullet.

Use this hub as a table of contents, then leave. The interesting work is still in Wisdom, stealing a book and a tentacle, not in staring at a date. When 22 September hits, the next entry on this page should be a real patch, not another countdown.