Neighbors Suburban Warfare Release Date — 1.0, Platforms and Patch Timeline

The Neighbors Suburban Warfare release date is 29 September 2026. That is the day the game left Early Access and launched as version 1.0, simultaneously becoming free to play and arriving on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with cross-play. SteamDB logs the store release at 29 September 2026, 16:19:05 UTC, and the developer's Steam post published the same day confirms 1.0 is live.

The Neighbors Suburban Warfare Release Date

The exact date is corroborated by two independent official-facing sources: the Steam release date field, which reads Sep 29, 2026 and no longer shows a coming-soon flag, and SteamDB's logged store release timestamp. The game was already purchasable during Early Access, so 29 September 2026 is specifically the 1.0 and free-to-play date rather than a first-ever release.

Release fact	Value	Source
1.0 release date	29 September 2026	Steam app details
Store release timestamp	29 September 2026, 16:19:05 UTC	SteamDB
Platforms at 1.0	Steam (Windows), PS5, Xbox Series X	S
Price at 1.0	Free to play	Steam and launch post
Early Access period	Paid, ran into 2025	Community wiki hotfixes and FAQ

If you only need one line, it is this: Neighbors: Suburban Warfare fully launched on 29 September 2026 and has been free to play since that day.

The short version:

• 1.0 release date: 29 September 2026.
• Free to play from launch day, on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
• Cross-play available from day one, not patched in later.
• Not a first release: a paid Early Access build came before it.

From Early Access to 1.0

The game spent a paid Early Access stretch before release. The community wiki's FAQ block and its hotfix list for V0.9.0.10, V0.9.0.17 and V0.9.0.21 are all dated April 2025, and that same FAQ says the Early Access price was 10 dollars. An IGN listing summary dates the initial release to 17 April 2025, which lines up with that April Early Access window but comes from a single third-party source, so treat the exact early-access start as to confirm.

Phase	Window	Status
Early Access	From April 2025	Paid, eight neighbors, level cap 20
1.0 launch	29 September 2026	Free to play, cross-play, nine neighbors
First patch	1 October 2026	Patch 1.0.3.2
Backer rewards post	2 October 2026	Rewards for paid Early Access buyers

That Early Access FAQ also warned that the developers did not expect to finalise 1.0 during 2025, which is consistent with the September 2026 launch.

What Launched With 1.0

The launch post is unusually specific, which makes the feature list easy to verify rather than infer. It frames 1.0 as both a content drop and a business-model change.

Launch feature	Detail
Free to play	The paid model was dropped to boost lobbies and cut queue times
Neighborhood Pass	Added, and given free to Early Access supporters
Cross-play	Launched on Steam, Xbox and PS together
Gwen	A new playable neighbor
Practice vs. AI	A new practice mode
Suburban House	A new house added to the rotation
Destruction redesign	The objective mode was reworked

The follow-up backer post adds a second layer of detail:

• Early Access buyers received every neighbor unlocked, including Gwen.
• They also received the P.A Flames and Cannon Flaming skins.
• The Premium Neighborhood Pass and 3,000 Harmonies were granted as compensation for the paid purchase.
• A launch-window patch was already in progress for connection and lobby issues.

Patch 1.0.3.2 landed two days later with console display options, several crash fixes, two new server regions, and balance tweaks to P.A., Mary-Jean, Gramps and Gwen. For the platform picture that shipped with 1.0, see platforms and crossplay.