Katana Inu Steam Early Access Opens Today, PS5 Planned for Full Launch

Since Katana Inu announced its early access date on the 5th of October 2026, KATA has risen 116.6%, from $0.00002096 to $0.00004540 on the 21st of October 2026. The wider gaming market fell 10.2% over the same days. Katana Inu’s early access is set to open today, the 22nd of October 2026, on Steam and on the project’s own launcher. ^[1] On the morning of the 22nd of October 2026, its Steam page still listed the game as coming soon, with a demo to download. ^[2] On Steam, the game is free to play and needs no crypto wallet. ^[3] The launcher version adds the KATA token and the game’s NFTs. ^{[3] [4]} On the 21st of October 2026, Katana Inu said it had an agreement to bring the game to PlayStation 5 for its full launch. It did not say who the agreement was with. It gave no date for the full release, and said it would come once it had the right partner on board. ^[5]

Cryptocurrency trading is subject to high market risk. Katana Inu is not responsible for any trading losses. ^[4]

Katana Inu website, Web3 page

1. 1. 29 September 2026. Katana Inu says gameplay sessions are coming
2. 2. 5 October 2026. Early access date set for the 22nd of October
3. 3. 8 October 2026. Dev update video
4. 4. 15 October 2026. Side games and buyback plan
5. 5. 20 October 2026. Launch-week tournament reminder
6. 6. 21 October 2026. PlayStation 5 agreement announced

Katana Inu: daily closes: data table

Date	Katana Inu
2026-09-22	0.0000243
2026-09-23	0.0000220
2026-09-24	0.0000214
2026-09-25	0.0000204
2026-09-26	0.0000204
2026-09-27	0.0000204
2026-09-28	0.0000202
2026-09-29	0.0000202
2026-09-30	0.0000206
2026-10-01	0.0000200
2026-10-02	0.0000204
2026-10-03	0.0000205
2026-10-04	0.0000210
2026-10-05	0.0000220
2026-10-06	0.0000319
2026-10-07	0.0000331
2026-10-08	0.0000302
2026-10-09	0.0000309
2026-10-10	0.0000335
2026-10-11	0.0000359
2026-10-12	0.0000337
2026-10-13	0.0000333
2026-10-14	0.0000330
2026-10-15	0.0000370
2026-10-16	0.0000378
2026-10-17	0.0000377
2026-10-18	0.0000378
2026-10-19	0.0000390
2026-10-20	0.0000408
2026-10-21	0.0000454

What the token actually does

KATA is the token of Katana Inu, a free-to-play multiplayer action game on PC. The game’s Web3 launcher adds KATA and NFTs, which the project says are optional. ^[3]

Katana Inu says KATA will be used to buy items in the game and to pay tournament entry fees. Players also use it to buy and sell the game’s NFTs, which are weapons, characters and other cosmetic items. To earn KATA by playing, a player needs the launcher version and must hold both KATA and Katana Inu NFTs. So a player has to own both before earning anything. The more of each a player holds, the more they can earn. They must also reach level 5. Katana Inu says all of these features are still in development and may have bugs, and that all numbers and balances may change as it tests the system. Its staking system, which paid holders for locking up KATA, has been paused since early 2023. ^[4]

Performance

All of KATA’s rise since the 5th of October 2026 came before the early access build was out. Over the three months to the 21st of October 2026, KATA rose 164.8%. The wider gaming market rose 0.8% over the same three months.

• In the seven days to the 21st of October 2026, the token rose 37.5%. The wider gaming market rose 2.5%.
• That week it ranked 8th of the 163 gaming tokens that gained.
• It trades 99.5% below its all-time high, set in December 2021. The wider gaming market sits 94% below its own.

Katana Inu and Gaming Token Index – Composite, day by day: data table

Date	KATA	Gaming Token Index – Composite
2026-07-22	100.0	100.0
2026-07-23	99.2	102.7
2026-07-24	94.0	103.7
2026-07-25	98.9	105.6
2026-07-26	99.9	107.3
2026-07-27	99.3	100.9
2026-07-28	101.2	103.7
2026-07-29	100.6	104.3
2026-07-30	105.2	105.4
2026-07-31	103.0	108.0
2026-08-01	94.3	109.5
2026-08-02	94.1	101.8
2026-08-03	92.7	99.4
2026-08-04	93.6	95.0
2026-08-05	95.0	96.6
2026-08-06	92.3	94.6
2026-08-07	92.2	95.9
2026-08-08	92.3	102.6
2026-08-09	92.6	111.0
2026-08-10	93.4	92.0
2026-08-11	91.2	87.0
2026-08-12	90.1	87.9
2026-08-13	89.9	85.2
2026-08-14	89.0	82.7
2026-08-15	88.7	79.8
2026-08-16	88.7	79.9
2026-08-17	88.3	78.9
2026-08-18	87.3	77.7
2026-08-19	97.7	80.0
2026-08-20	100.7	83.6
2026-08-21	105.7	89.7
2026-08-22	111.2	89.5
2026-08-23	111.0	89.5
2026-08-24	115.4	88.6
2026-08-25	114.5	86.9
2026-08-26	113.8	86.9
2026-08-27	114.6	88.9
2026-08-28	113.1	87.7
2026-08-29	112.5	88.1
2026-08-30	116.2	87.9
2026-08-31	113.6	86.7
2026-09-01	108.3	86.4
2026-09-02	107.5	86.3
2026-09-03	98.0	89.5
2026-09-04	94.1	87.5
2026-09-05	95.4	89.3
2026-09-06	97.8	89.3
2026-09-07	99.4	90.6
2026-09-08	98.0	90.5
2026-09-09	99.4	89.3
2026-09-10	98.2	85.9
2026-09-11	98.0	86.6
2026-09-12	97.7	87.5
2026-09-13	97.3	88.7
2026-09-14	99.0	89.1
2026-09-15	92.8	85.4
2026-09-16	94.0	84.7
2026-09-17	94.7	87.8
2026-09-18	108.5	92.5
2026-09-19	106.5	94.3
2026-09-20	107.3	93.5
2026-09-21	142.5	99.3
2026-09-22	141.6	100.9
2026-09-23	128.3	98.4
2026-09-24	124.6	100.9
2026-09-25	119.2	103.8
2026-09-26	119.0	104.4
2026-09-27	119.2	105.8
2026-09-28	117.7	101.0
2026-09-29	117.7	102.4
2026-09-30	120.1	98.7
2026-10-01	116.5	100.5
2026-10-02	118.9	105.8
2026-10-03	119.5	109.5
2026-10-04	122.3	112.2
2026-10-05	128.4	112.2
2026-10-06	186.3	109.8
2026-10-07	193.0	106.7
2026-10-08	176.0	103.2
2026-10-09	180.3	105.2
2026-10-10	195.3	107.2
2026-10-11	209.2	107.5
2026-10-12	196.8	104.6
2026-10-13	194.1	102.5
2026-10-14	192.6	98.3
2026-10-15	215.9	98.3
2026-10-16	220.7	97.1
2026-10-17	220.1	96.7
2026-10-18	220.5	91.8
2026-10-19	227.4	94.0
2026-10-20	237.9	96.9
2026-10-21	264.8	100.8

KATA against Gaming Token Index – Composite: data table

Window	KATA	Gaming Token Index – Composite
1 year	-53.53%	-66.57%
6 months	+13.60%	-13.71%
3 months	+164.84%	+0.80%
1 month	+85.79%	+1.56%

More on the story

On the 8th of October 2026, Katana Inu posted a development update. It said bugs found in playtests were fixed and that the battle royale map ran at 72 frames per second, up from 18. It also said the download had been cut in half and that its servers had been tested with 30 players. It said the changes would reach players with the next build. Two more modes were in progress, a paint-based hide-and-seek mode called Ink Ninja and a racing mode called Katana Inu Kart. ^[6]

Launch week is set to run on small matches paid in KATA. Katana Inu said its first 1v1 battles would start around 5 PM CET on launch day, with $50 to $100 in rewards. ^[5] It said five challengers would face a player named Marwan in a live match, for a $500 pool in KATA. A challenger who beat him would win $100 in KATA. One who lost would get $50, and another $50 would be burned. Burning a token destroys it for good. A 3v3 tournament would pay the winning team $300 in KATA. ^{[7] [8]} Katana Inu said the events must end within a week, and any prize not claimed by then would be burned. Players who log at least 20 minutes in the first three days would get a “Pioneer” badge. ^[7]

On the 15th of October 2026, Katana Inu said it had more than 10 side games in development, for mobile, browser and PC. It named two, Katana Inu Strikers and Katana Inu Rally, both still in progress. It said profits from its games would pay for KATA buybacks and burns. ^[9] In a buyback, a project buys its own token back from the market. There is no information yet on how large the buybacks would be or when they would start. Katana Inu said the first of the new games was due in about two weeks, which would be around the 29th of October 2026. ^[9] Katana Inu has not said how much its games earn.

The token had a setback earlier in the year. On the 8th of May 2026, Katana Inu said a bridge run by another team had been hit by a security incident. A bridge moves a token from one blockchain to another, here between BNB Chain and Ethereum. It said 647,071,970 KATA were sold into the market during the incident, and $21,947 left its trading pool. It said that, as far as it knew then, the problem came from the bridge and Katana Inu itself was not directly hit. It said it had recovered about 1 billion KATA and would put $21,947 back into the pool. About 500 million of the recovered KATA were meant to be removed from circulation, subject to final checks. It said the other half may be kept for a future bridge. ^[10]

References

1. ↑ “Hey $KATA Fam! ⚔️🔥 After five years of building, fighting, improving and never giving up… Katana…” (Katana Inu on X, the 5th of October 2026) Source
2. ↑ (Steam, Katana Inu store page, read the 22nd of October 2026) Source
3. ↑ (Katana Inu website, home page) Source
4. ↑ (Katana Inu website, Web3 page) Source
5. ↑ “$KATA FAM! ⚔️🔥 🎮 BIG NEWS: We have an agreement in place to bring Katana Inu to PlayStation 5 for…” (Katana Inu on X, the 21st of October 2026) Source
6. ↑ “⚔️ $KATA ARMY: Dev update is here in a Video! 🛠️ Playtest feedback → FIXED Looting, collisions, mushrooms…” (Katana Inu on X, the 8th of October 2026) Source
7. ↑ (Katana Inu on X, the 16th of October 2026) Source
8. ↑ “$KATA Fam! 2 days left! 🎮 LIVE GAMEPLAY: 2 Events 💪 ▸ 1v1: 5 challengers vs Marwan (live) 💰 Prize…” (Katana Inu on X, the 20th of October 2026) Source
9. ↑ “GM $KATA FAM! ⚔️🔥 As promised, here’s an update on our Katana Inu Side Games! 🎮 We already have over…” (Katana Inu on X, the 15th of October 2026) Source
10. ↑ (Katana Inu, the 8th of May 2026) Source

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