Planet Zoo 2 Release Date

Planet Zoo 2 launches on Monday, October 13, 2026. Two independent first-party sources agree: the official Planet Zoo 2 site states "Available 13 October 2026" and the Steam store page lists October 13, 2026 with the coming-soon flag. For a pre-release game, a fact confirmed twice by the publisher itself is as solid as facts get.

What is confirmed about the date

• The date is October 13, 2026, on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
• The game was announced on May 28, 2026, which makes this a roughly four-and-a-half-month marketing window
• The Steam listing is live in both Standard and Deluxe versions, both dated October 13, 2026

What is not confirmed

⚠️ Unconfirmed. No unlock time has been published. Any hour you see attached to October 13, including on storefront countdown widgets, is a placeholder until Frontier states it. We will add the hour here the day it is announced.

• Unlock time: not announced on any channel
• Preload: Frontier has not said whether console or PC players can pre-load
• Regional midnight launches: not announced

One storefront does publish a timestamp. The PlayStation Store's UK and EU regional page carries a date stamp of 13/10/2026 at 16:00 GMT+2. That is a Sony regional store display, it differs from how Steam and Epic handle release moments, and Frontier itself has only ever published the date. We report it as what it is rather than treating it as the official hour.

What happens on this page after launch

The date becomes the anchor for the post-launch calendar: update notes, seasonal events and DLC announcements all hang off it. When Frontier publishes the unlock hour or preload details, this page gets the update with a new fact-check date.