Aniimo Launches September 16 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Aniimo launched on September 16, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, developer Pawprint Interactive Entertainment announced via the official PlayStation blog ahead of release. The free-to-play, open-world creature-collecting action RPG supports English and Simplified Chinese at launch, with iOS and Android versions arriving in late September.

What shipped on day one

The launch version is the full shared-world experience that closed tests built toward:

• The continent of Aidel — 16 regions with dynamic day/night and weather ecology
• 200+ collectible Aniimo forms, including regional, weather, boss, iridescent and hidden pixel tiers
• The Link & Merge system — fight beside creatures or fuse with them to traverse the world
• Cross-platform multiplayer and progression across PC and both console families
• Launch celebration events stacked on top of a pre-registration campaign that crossed 39.9 million sign-ups (rewards: launch gifts)

The road here

Aniimo's reveal-to-launch run was unusually quick for an open-world title of this scope:

• June 2025 — first trailer and official reveal; the Hangzhou-based Pawprint Studio confirmed a 2026 target
• Second half 2025 — first closed test on PC
• December 2025 — the second closed test ("Wave Swing Test") announced for early 2026, adding new capturable creatures, the home building system and the "Egg Heist" competitive mode — the earliest version of what became Egg Grab Battle
• Mid 2026 — third closed test with the full regional roster
• August 2026 — Gamescom-adjacent announcement trailer and the September 16 date, confirmed via the PlayStation blog

Editions and pre-orders

PlayStation storefronts carried two limited editions through the pre-order window, bundling an exclusive trinket and season-pass perks. Platform listings showed slightly different availability windows during the rollout — PC and Xbox went live on the 16th, with storefront-specific variations noted by region.

The multiplayer angle

Worth underlining for players coming from single-player creature collectors: Aniimo is a shared-world multiplayer game from the first minute. Weather, spawns and world state are per-instance, which powers the mode-hopping tricks the community has already standardized — weather-form hunting in friends' worlds being the most famous (explained here).

The co-op flagship is Egg Grab Battle, the search-fight-extract mode that launched as squad co-op with PvP flagged for later (mode overview).

New here?

Start with What Is Aniimo, then the beginner roadmap. Console and PC players can check the PC requirements; mobile timing is on the mobile rollout page.