Ashes of the Singularity II Release Time: When It Unlocks on November 10

Ashes of the Singularity II unlocks on Steam at 2:00 p.m. UTC on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. That is 9:00 a.m. EST on the US East Coast, 6:00 a.m. PST on the West Coast, 2:00 p.m. GMT in the UK, 3:00 p.m. CET across most of Europe, 7:30 p.m. IST in India and 11:00 p.m. JST in Japan. Sydney gets it at 1:00 a.m. AEDT on Wednesday, November 11. The hour comes from the release timestamp on the Steam store page, which lists a planned release date of Nov 10, 2026 and counts down to that moment. It is a PC release only, and neither Stardock nor Oxide Games has announced a console version.

Stardock’s own launch stream is timed to land after the game becomes playable. The company’s release-livestream post puts it on Tuesday, November 10 at 1:00 p.m. EST, streaming on Stardock’s YouTube channel, Steam and Twitch.

Price is the open question: the Steam page is wishlist-only and says the game is not yet available, while Stardock’s store page lists it as “Coming November 10, 2026” with no price attached. Stardock’s release announcement says the game launches with a discount on Steam and through Stardock directly, so the final number is still to be confirmed on the day. Steam’s own edition comparison names two: the Standard Edition, which includes the base game, and the Premium Edition, which adds the soundtrack and the first three DLC packs. DLC means downloadable content sold separately from the base game.

Steam lists a 50 GB download with an SSD recommended. No Steam Deck verdict has been published for the game yet.

For the game itself, Ashes of the Singularity II is the sequel to Stardock’s 2016 real-time strategy classic, built by Oxide Games. You command the United Earth Forces, the Post-Human Coalition or the AI Substrate across continent-sized maps with thousands of units, with a single-player campaign, skirmish battles, and competitive and co-op multiplayer. Strategic Zoom means the camera can pull from orbital command down to frontline combat. We covered the date announcement back in October, and the Ashes of the Singularity II game page collects everything we publish on it.

The unlock hour and the broadcast hour are two separate clocks on the same day, and that is the useful part for anyone planning launch week. The game becomes playable four hours before Stardock’s stream starts. You can get into the campaign and live multiplayer first, then watch the team play the same content, which is unusual for a launch. The price is the real gap: a launch discount has been promised, but neither Steam nor Stardock is selling one yet. The number to check on the morning of November 10 is the one that appears on the store page then.

There is no console version and no regional rollout to plan around, so one timestamp covers every player on Steam. That makes November 10 a single global morning for a strategy game built around multiplayer matchmaking. The campaign is there to learn, but the online PvP and co-op matches are what the first few hours are really for.

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