What Kind of Game Is Silver Palace? Release Date, Platforms and Systems

Silver Palace is a free-to-play detective action RPG from Elementa, launching worldwide on 14 December 2026 (UTC+8) on PC, PS5, iOS and Android. You play a Detective in Silvernia, a Victorian industrial city, and split your time between solving cases, real-time party combat and a layer of city life: property, errands, minigames and friendships. It runs on Unreal Engine 5. Everything below about systems comes from the two closed betas, so treat the numbers as beta numbers.

Updated 31 October 2026: earlier versions of this guide said no release date had been announced. Elementa confirmed 14 December 2026 (UTC+8) in the title of its Gratia launch trailer on 30 October and in a press release on 31 October. The launch hour and the pre-download date are not announced yet.

What kind of game is Silver Palace?

Three loops share the screen time.

• Investigation. Cases drive the story. The Detective reads crime scenes, questions witnesses, unmasks disguised monsters and rebuilds events through the Mind Palace ability. The Dichotomy beta added Curious Deductions, cases with several endings solved on an Evidence Board. Elementa's notice on them says "Restart Deduction" resets the board, and finding the true ending unlocks a collectable and an achievement.
• Combat. Real-time fights with three-character parties. A yellow circle marks an attack you can parry, Stunned enemies can be executed, and Synchronised Combat keeps a switched-out character on the field until their charged attack finishes. Characters split into five Combat Styles, and each one fills a Resonance meter tied to their Reactor Attribute instead of combining elements into reactions.
• City life. Between cases you spend two regenerating energies, run a property business, clear daily errands and give gifts to the cast. More on that below.

The tone is lighter than the noir framing suggests. In the launch trailer, the case is a knight who broke the Queen's painting and has to find out what "chivalry" looks like before a harpy attack answers the question for her.

When is the Silver Palace release date?

14 December 2026, UTC+8, worldwide. UTC+8 is Singapore and Beijing time, so depending on the hour Elementa picks, players in Europe and the Americas may get in on 13 December local time. The hour is not announced, so do not plan around one yet.

The date reached players in three places:

• the title and description of the official Gratia trailer "The Foolish and the Brave", uploaded on 30 October 2026;
• Elementa's press release of 31 October 2026, which also gives the platforms and the languages;
• the video list on the official site.

The trailer itself never shows the date on screen. The App Store listing still shows 31 January 2027 as an expected date. That is a store placeholder, not a second launch date.

No third closed beta has been announced. Korean creator Qidion reads the schedule as Elementa skipping a CBT3 to launch sooner; that is their inference, not an official statement. The Dichotomy: Retrace test that started in October is the last test announced before launch.

What platforms is Silver Palace on?

There is no Steam page. "First Run" is Epic's timed-exclusivity programme for PC stores, which is the reason. Epic's page does not say how long it lasts; Qidion says six months, which is unconfirmed. No Xbox or Switch version has been announced.

Languages. The press release lists 12 text languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. The Epic page lists 4 voice languages: Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.

Engine and hardware. It is an Unreal Engine 5 game, so the PC side is not light. Our PC requirements page has the minimum and recommended specs from the Epic page. One change there: Epic now lists "Windows 11 21H2 or higher" as the recommended OS.

Does Silver Palace have cross-save between PC and mobile?

Yes, in the test that is running now, and it works both ways. Elementa's Dichotomy: Retrace FAQ (23 September 2026) says that logging in with the same account gives cross-save between the PC and mobile versions. Each account could log in on one PC, one iOS device and one Android device, and iOS and Android access were granted separately.

For launch, the only signal is the "Cross Platform" tag on the Epic page. Elementa has not published a launch FAQ on cross-save or on PS5 accounts, so the PS5 side is unknown.

The setting: Silvernia and the golden age of detectives

Silvernia is an industrial metropolis built on Silverium, an element that changed its technology and its daily life. Corporate monopolies, underground syndicates, royal affiliates and cults all compete for it.

You play the Detective, one half of a famous investigative duo who left the city three years ago after an airship disaster tied to the assassination of the late Queen. The story opens in the third year of young Queen Feliana's reign. The Detective comes back with a personal case: the truth behind "that fatal shot" and the death of someone close. Fan sites name the crashed airship "Evermore"; Elementa's own text has not used the name yet.

The Dichotomy beta let you pick a male or female Detective. Official Title Pages from 29 and 30 October name them Hugin and Munin, and the Detective page lists the Gravitas attribute and the Hero Identity that those pages confirm.

What do you do between cases?

This is the part trailers skip and beta players talk about most. Creator Pyrrh Gacha's CBT2 walkthrough lays it out, and the screens in it match what other testers recorded:

Two details matter for planning. Pyrrh says the City Property assistant paid out pull resources every 12 hours in CBT2. And City Property is the main source of Antique Coins, which buy the rarest upgrade item in the beta, Twin Argent Strands, at one per month. Our beginner guide shows each of these screens and the order to unlock them in.

How does the Silver Palace gacha work?

Character banners are called Repertoire, Motive (weapon) banners Monologue, and a pull is a Revelation. Hako read the CBT2 rules at 360 Reactor Crystals per pull, or 3,600 for ten. The featured 5-star character is guaranteed by the 100th pull. Whether there is a 50/50 before that is disputed between creators; on the limited Motive banner, Hako reads the rule text as a 50/50 with the featured Motive guaranteed at 80.

Motives only give their skill to a character of the same Identity, which is why Elementa shows each one with an Identity icon. The full rules, rates and the open questions are in our gacha system guide.

What has Elementa promised to change after the beta?

On 22 August 2026, Elementa posted its Dichotomy feedback notice (news id 107). It is the clearest list of what should differ from the beta footage you see on YouTube. None of it has a date.

Combat

• Better camera and target lock-on against groups, flying enemies and fast enemies.
• Stronger hit feedback: animations, effects, sound and enemy reactions.
• Clearer display of Support buffs, Reactor effects and Catalyst effects, with a reworked combat interface and tutorials.

Story

• A Dialogue History, so you can reread past conversations and case details.
• Reworked stealth and assassination sequences.
• The Revealer Light and other detective tools used more often, and more cases like Curious Deductions.

Open world

• More interiors you can enter and NPCs that act like their jobs.
• Better riding and flying on the Silverium Pegasus.
• More collectibles, clearer map information and better exploration guidance.

Performance

• Wider device compatibility, and a mobile version, which arrived with Retrace.

The combat-information point is the one beta players should watch. Elementa itself wrote that the buffs of Support characters, such as Red Rose, were hard to recognise in CBT2. Beta impressions of those kits were formed without clear buff icons, and Gratia, the knight of the launch trailer, is one of the characters whose shield and team buffs this affects.

Beta tests so far

• Monotype Beta Test: 13 to 18 January 2026, Windows PC only, data wiped, no purchases.
• Dichotomy Beta Test: 23 July to 13 August 2026 (UTC+8), Windows PC only. It brought a fully rebuilt combat system and the choice of a male or female Detective.
• Dichotomy: Retrace Technical Test: recruitment from 23 September to 10 October 2026, first test on Android and iOS, with PC at the same time and cross-save between them. Elementa calls the content "largely consistent" with Dichotomy. Testers are under NDA, so expect no footage.
• Private Investigator Project: since 9 October 2026, rolling recruitment for small confidential tests under NDA. Even past testers have to fill in the survey again.

How popular is it already?

Pre-registration passed 1 million within a week of the May 2025 announcement and 4 million by January 2026. Elementa's 31 October press release puts it at over 15 million. The milestone rewards, as reported by Gematsu:

A separate follower milestone adds 5 more Simulation Shots, which is how the press release reaches 20 in total. The milestone rewards are listed in our free characters guide.

How does it compare to Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves?

It shares their free-to-play, character-banner structure. It differs in three places:

• An urban Victorian city and case-driven story instead of open-world fantasy travel.
• A featured 5-star guaranteed by 100 pulls on character banners, by CBT2 rule text.
• A Resonance meter per character instead of element-reaction combos, with no weakness chart.

The city-life layer is the other big difference. Neither of those games asks you to run a pizza shop between boss fights. See who led the beta in our tier list, or browse the character roster.

Sources

• Elementa: Global Launch on December 14th: Silver Palace Gratia Character Trailer - The Foolish and the Brave (30 October 2026); Hidden Pages: The Doppelganger Mystery (29 October 2026); "Silver Palace Sets Global Launch Date for December 14, 2026", 31 October 2026; Dichotomy Beta Test Feedback and Optimization (22 August 2026), Dichotomy: Retrace Technical Test Recruitment FAQ (23 September 2026), The Science of All Things - Combat Edition (22 July 2026), The Science of All Things - Curious Deductions Edition (26 July 2026)
• Creator videos: Aster Gacha Games, Pyrrh Gacha, Hako, Qidion
• Silver Palace page on the Epic Games Store, checked 31 October 2026