A 2023 Ubisoft game is finally coming to Steam and Epic Games Store more than a year following its initial release, which was itself fairly limited.
Highlights
- Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is coming to Steam and Epic Games Store soon, most likely in late May.
- Initially released as a mobile exclusive for Netflix subscribers in January 2023, the puzzle adventure made its way to PC and consoles in March 2024.
- The PC version of Valiant Hearts: Coming Home has so far only been available via Ubisoft Store.
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is finally set to debut on Steam. The sequel to Valiant Hearts: The Great War has been out for over a year, though it remained inaccessible to PC gamers for the majority of that time.
The war-themed puzzle adventure celebrated its first anniversary in late January. At that time, Valiant Hearts: Coming Home was still a Netflix exclusive confined to Android and iOS devices. Ubisoft did treat it to a wider release in early March 2024, bringing it to the Switch and the latest two generations of PlayStation and Xbox consoles, as well as PC, albeit only via its own digital storefront.
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home Gets Steam, Epic Games Store Pages
The fact that this surprise wave of Valiant Hearts: Coming Home ports ended up skipping Steam did not raise many eyebrows, as that's pretty much standard practice for new Ubisoft titles nowadays. What is much more surprising is that this period of Ubisoft Store PC exclusivity ostensibly won't be particularly long. That's suggested by the fact that Ubisoft has already launched Steam and Epic Games Store pages for Valiant Hearts: Coming Home, both of which appeared on April 20.
Although neither of the newly emerged listings contains pricing information, Ubisoft generally maintains price parity across storefronts. Meaning that the Steam and EGS versions of Valiant Hearts: Coming Home will likely retail at $14.99, the same as their Ubisoft Store counterpart. While Steam lists it as "coming soon," its Epic Games Store page includes a concrete release date: May 24. Assuming this availability information is accurate, it's plausible that the Steam version will also debut in late May.
Where To Buy Valiant Hearts: Coming Home PC Version
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Store |
Price |
Release Date |
|---|---|---|
|
Ubisoft Store |
$14.99 |
March 7, 2024 |
|
Steam |
TBA |
Coming Soon |
|
Epic Games Store |
May 24, 2024 |
Neither storefront includes any mention of Valiant Hearts: The Collection, the bundle containing both games in the puzzle adventure series that Ubisoft introduced in early March, along with the Coming Home console ports. That particular two-pack retails at $24.99 on the Ubisoft Store, thus offering a 16% discount compared to buying its full-priced contents individually.
Ubisoft's games have been skipping Steam at launch since 2019. Most of them would then take years to reach Valve's storefront, and that's only after the company decided to return to selective Steam publishing in late 2022, following a three-year period of avoiding the platform entirely. In that context, the ten-week Ubisoft Store exclusivity period that Valiant Hearts: Coming Home now appears to be looking at seems fairly short. Steam is even getting its first day-one Ubisoft game in five years on May 14, when The Rogue Prince of Persia is launching in early access.
Platform(s) Android , iOS Released February 1, 2023 Developer Old Skull Games Publisher(s) Ubisoft Genre(s) Action , Platformer , Puzzle How Long To Beat 3 Hours Metascore 72 See at Ubisoft
