Hearth and Hamlet Is Out Now

Hearth and Hamlet is out now on Steam. Phorust Studios and publishers Runic Forge and Gamersky Games unlocked the full single-player build on August 19, 2026 at 17:00 UTC+1 (16:00 UTC). The official community post is blunt: the wait is over, and the campfire-to-kingdom loop is live for Windows and SteamOS/Linux.

This page is the first-week briefing. It is not a patch changelog theater. For calendar history see Release Date. For the buy button see Price. If the executable will not start, jump to Troubleshooting.

What actually shipped

The store still describes the fantasy you practiced in the demo: gather food, wood, stone, and gold; assign workers; raise tents through taverns, fortifications, and magical academies; research technologies; pass laws; trade with faraway lands; and recruit guards when raiders appear. The full release is the same genre promise with the extra hours, buildings, and late systems the demo withheld.

Launch-week storefront facts worth pinning:

• Status: Released (no longer upcoming)
• Unlock time: 17:00 UTC+1 on August 19, 2026, after a public correction that it is UTC+1 rather than UTC
• Mode: Single-player only
• Platforms: Steam for Windows 10/11 and Ubuntu 20.04 / SteamOS
• Achievements: 24 Steam achievements, including difficulty clears and a no-Ashenholt trade challenge — see Achievements
• Languages on Steam: English, Simplified Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese
• Reviews at launch: Very Positive, about 85% of 268 user reviews
• Wishlist context: the team celebrated ~70,000 wishlists at Next Fest, later passed 125,000 with 100,000 demo players, and cited over 150,000 wishlists one week before unlock

Official Hearth and Hamlet trailer

Introductory offer

Steam shows a $7.99 USD list price with a −10% introductory offer (about $7.19) that ends August 26, 2026. Regional SKUs and taxes will differ. Bundles with other cozy or incremental titles exist on the store page; buy those only if you already want the extra games. The Price page keeps the honest number and the rumor history.

The demo remains a practice slice. It taught gold, Advisor research, UI scaling, and Shift+F11. It is not a substitute for the paid campaign, and older demo saves were already broken once during Demo v1.0.46 backend work. Start a fresh full-game save unless Steam later documents an importer.

What the developers asked on day one

The OUT NOW post thanks wishlist support, demo coverage, and asks for honest Steam reviews in the first days — that is still the single biggest storefront lever for a small title. They also pointed players to Discord for live questions. Bookmark the Steam community hub and the Links Hub so you are not hunting URLs while a raid timer ticks.

If you already played the Next Fest demo, your first hour should feel familiar: hold-click gathering, fishing after the camp upgrade, workers on food and wood, then the public house and chief’s house. Use Tips and the Walkthrough instead of re-learning the loop from trailers.

First-week problems this wiki is watching

Launch week is noisy. Community threads already mention startup crashes, resolution / UI scaling, Steam Deck instability, and confusion about whether the market generates gold. None of those replace official patch notes. Practical first responses:

1. Verify integrity of game files in Steam.
2. Add a DirectX 11 launch option if the game never reaches the menu — details on Troubleshooting.
3. Set UI scaling to Automatic or a manual value; Demo v1.0.46 already shipped this for 4K and Deck.
4. Keep the game updated; post-launch hotfixes are expected on a solo-developed title.
5. If gold feels stuck, read How to Get Gold before assuming the market is broken.

How this wiki changes after unlock

Before August 19 this site refused to say “out now.” That constraint is lifted. Pages still will not invent promo codes, multiplayer, or fake patch IDs. Demo articles stay useful as history and as a cheaper way to sample the loop. Preview / Review is now a launch-week impression piece anchored on the shipped build and public reviews, not a “wait for August” disclaimer.

Suggested reading order this week:

1. This page plus Price
2. Getting Started or How to Play
3. Early Game and Tips
4. Defend Raids before the first scare
5. Achievements if you care about difficulty and 200% happiness
6. System Requirements if a friend is still deciding

Grow the hearth at your pace. The kingdom is no longer a calendar target — it is a save file.