No Rest for the Wicked launches on PS5 and PC in October 2026

Moon Studios is taking No Rest for the Wicked to version 1.0 on PS5 and PC in October 2026, but Nintendo’s Switch 2 is not in that first wave. The delay matters because this is not a small side project: the studio is framing the launch as a full-release milestone after more than two years in Early Access, with support for full cross-play and a package built around 100+ hours of content.

The 1.0 release is set to add new powerful weapons, new bosses and enemies, new areas, and a re-imagined class system. Moon Studios has also said the game supports up to four players in seamless online co-op, which gives the launch a broader multiplayer pitch than the solo-focused action RPG many players first saw when the game entered Early Access on April 18, 2024.

For Nintendo, the more telling detail is not simply that Switch 2 is delayed. It is that Moon Studios had already signaled where the studio wanted to spend its limited bandwidth. Thomas Mahler said the team was prioritizing PS5, and potentially Switch 2, before Xbox because, for a smaller studio, it made more economic sense to focus on the platform with the largest user base and the easiest console optimization path. He later described the studio as prioritizing the PS5, PS5 Pro and Nintendo Switch 2 versions, while seeing what made sense for Xbox.

That leaves the Switch 2 absent from a game that sits squarely in the kind of midcore lane Nintendo will want more of as its new hardware settles in. Mahler shared footage of No Rest for the Wicked running on Switch 2 in February 2026, which helped fuel expectations that a Nintendo version was already moving through the pipeline. Instead, the October rollout goes to PS5 and PC first, with Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2 pushed to a later date.

The timing also shows how Moon Studios has kept building the game while it waited for the 1.0 push. The Together co-op update opened a public beta on December 18, 2025 and launched on January 22, 2026, extending the game’s online play just as the studio moved toward the larger release. For Nintendo, the result is another reminder that third-party scheduling on Switch 2 will likely be shaped as much by optimization cost and market math as by enthusiasm for the platform itself.