Off The Grid 1.0 Release Date: Gunzilla’s October Launch Still Has No Day

Gunzilla Games said Off The Grid would get its full release in October 2026. ^[1] With eight days left in the month, there is still no launch date, no 1.0 trailer and no delay notice. The extraction shooter is still in early access on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. ^[2] Here is what Gunzilla has promised for 1.0, what it has shipped this year, and how the game and its GUN token are doing.

When is the Off The Grid 1.0 release date?

Gunzilla has not given a day. Its 2026 roadmap, published on the 29th of May, says Off The Grid “is planned to fully launch during the game’s second anniversary window.” ^[3] The platforms are PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC through the Epic Games Store and Steam, plus GeForce NOW. The game stays free to play. ^{[3] [4]}

Early access opened on the 8th of October 2024, so the anniversary itself passed two weeks ago without a launch. ^[1] Steam followed on the 17th of July 2025. ^[5] The newest post on the game’s Steam page, from the 21st of October 2026, is about anti-cheat and does not mention 1.0. ^[6]

Much of the coverage of the October target traces back to one article, “Off The Grid Targets October Full Release,” on Game Informer. It is a sponsored post with a “by Gunzilla Games” byline. ^[1] Gunzilla has owned Game Informer since March 2025. ^[7]

What 1.0 is supposed to add

The roadmap lists three things for the October “OTG 1.0” phase. The map grows with “new playable territories, fresh biomes,” added to the current map rather than replacing it. Ranked play gets a reset with recalibrated matchmaking, and Season 3 opens on the new system. The third item is a marketing push with creators. ^[8]

The story campaign is not on that list. When Gunzilla announced the game in May 2022, it named Altered Carbon author Richard K. Morgan as its script writer. ^[9] Gunzilla’s Chief Visionary Officer, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, said at the time that the game was battle royale first, with the story in a supporting role. ^[10] Off The Grid’s Steam page still promises “an ambitious 60-hour narrative campaign coming later this year.” ^[4]

What shipped in 2026

The parts of the roadmap before 1.0 did arrive, in four updates since July. ^{[11] [6]}

Date	Update	What changed
8 July 2026	July Update: Massive Performance Overhaul	Weapon rework, cyberlimb rebalance, a Limb Toughness system worth up to 50 extra health per limb, and up to three times the frame rate on RTX 20-series cards
27 August 2026	OTG August Update	Redeployment tokens, a rebuilt Marketplace and HUD, and jetpack changes
1 October 2026	The Iron Canopy Content Pack	A new content pack and an updated tutorial for new players
21 October 2026	Kestrel first ban wave	The first ban wave from Gunzilla’s own anti-cheat

Cheating has been one of the loudest complaints since the Steam launch, and early Steam reviews also claimed that many opponents were bots. ^[12] Gunzilla’s own anti-cheat, Kestrel, ran its first ban wave this month. Gunzilla says it checked more than 15 billion pieces of gameplay data, and that 55% of the bans were for macros and recoil scripts. ^[6]

How many people play Off The Grid

On Steam, the player count has stayed in a narrow range for 15 months. The monthly average has stayed between 6,662 and 8,280 players online at any moment since the Steam launch. The all-time peak, 15,247, came in March 2026. Over the last 30 days, the average was 7,552. ^[13]

1. 1. 1 March 2026. All-time Steam peak of 15,247 (March)
2. 2. 1 June 2026. Roadmap sets an October full release (29 May)

Month	Average players
2025-07-01	7,188
2025-08-01	6,921
2025-09-01	6,675
2025-10-01	6,662
2025-11-01	6,801
2025-12-01	7,456
2026-01-01	7,567
2026-02-01	7,387
2026-03-01	8,280
2026-04-01	7,600
2026-05-01	7,936
2026-06-01	7,729
2026-07-01	7,678
2026-08-01	7,760
2026-09-01	7,732

Steam is one of five ways to play, so these numbers leave out Epic, PlayStation, Xbox and GeForce NOW players. Gunzilla’s own figures are bigger. In June 2026 it reported 437,000 GUNZ wallets, 23,000 wallets active each day, about 4,000 new users a day and more than 150,000 OTG Pro subscribers. ^[14] In April, CEO Vlad Korolev said about 3,000 new players joined each day. He declined to publish more statistics except through a dashboard that costs 100,000 GUN to access. ^[15] None of these figures have been checked by anyone outside the company.

Steam reviews are Mixed. 61% of 1,544 reviews are positive, and 59% of the 66 written in the last 30 days. ^[4]

How the GUN token fits in

Off The Grid runs on GUNZ, Gunzilla’s own blockchain, built on Avalanche. Players loot items called HEXes and can turn them into NFTs they can trade. That costs a fee in GUN, which goes to holders of 10,000 Validator NFTs. GUN also pays for items, subscriptions, battle passes and network fees. Players do not have to use any of this to play. ^[16]

Not every player is on the live blockchain yet. In September 2025, Gunzilla started moving EU PC players over, while PS5 and Xbox players stayed on a test network until Sony and Microsoft approved the move. ^[17] The 2026 roadmap promised to move every remaining test-network user in September 2026. ^[8] Gunzilla has not said whether that happened.

GUN launched on the 31st of March 2025 on Binance, Bybit, OKX and KuCoin. ^{[16] [18]} It closed its first day at $0.0776, and CoinGecko lists its all-time high as $0.115. It jumped 224% in January 2026, from $0.0111 on New Year’s Day to $0.0360 on the 22nd of January, then fell again. On the 22nd of October 2026 it closed at $0.002147, its lowest close on record and 98.1% below its high. ^[19]

1. 1. 31 March 2025. GUN lists on Binance, Bybit, OKX and KuCoin (31 March)
2. 2. 14 July 2025. Off The Grid launches on Steam (17 July)
3. 3. 19 January 2026. Year high of $0.0360 (22 January)
4. 4. 25 May 2026. Roadmap sets an October full release (29 May)
5. 5. 5 October 2026. Second anniversary, no 1.0 launch (8 October)

Week of	GUN (US dollars)
2025-03-31	0.05597
2025-04-07	0.05581
2025-04-14	0.05100
2025-04-21	0.06086
2025-04-28	0.05018
2025-05-05	0.05953
2025-05-12	0.05188
2025-05-19	0.04854
2025-05-26	0.03950
2025-06-02	0.03649
2025-06-09	0.02778
2025-06-16	0.02302
2025-06-23	0.02318
2025-06-30	0.03512
2025-07-07	0.03136
2025-07-14	0.03505
2025-07-21	0.03080
2025-07-28	0.02474
2025-08-04	0.03216
2025-08-11	0.02811
2025-08-18	0.02797
2025-08-25	0.02267
2025-09-01	0.02149
2025-09-08	0.02594
2025-09-15	0.02415
2025-09-22	0.02376
2025-09-29	0.02907
2025-10-06	0.01923
2025-10-13	0.01973
2025-10-20	0.01923
2025-10-27	0.01657
2025-11-03	0.01424
2025-11-10	0.01363
2025-11-17	0.01258
2025-11-24	0.01324
2025-12-01	0.01230
2025-12-08	0.01805
2025-12-15	0.01220
2025-12-22	0.01169
2025-12-29	0.01395
2026-01-05	0.02330
2026-01-12	0.02388
2026-01-19	0.03188
2026-01-26	0.02772
2026-02-02	0.02778
2026-02-09	0.02263
2026-02-16	0.02855
2026-02-23	0.02527
2026-03-02	0.01848
2026-03-09	0.01541
2026-03-16	0.02399
2026-03-23	0.01593
2026-03-30	0.01363
2026-04-06	0.01635
2026-04-13	0.02007
2026-04-20	0.01513
2026-04-27	0.01458
2026-05-04	0.01549
2026-05-11	0.01358
2026-05-18	0.01150
2026-05-25	0.00815
2026-06-01	0.00650
2026-06-08	0.00589
2026-06-15	0.00583
2026-06-22	0.00437
2026-06-29	0.00441
2026-07-06	0.00405
2026-07-13	0.00364
2026-07-20	0.00348
2026-07-27	0.00288
2026-08-03	0.00333
2026-08-10	0.00298
2026-08-17	0.00325
2026-08-24	0.00305
2026-08-31	0.00305
2026-09-07	0.00274
2026-09-14	0.00293
2026-09-21	0.00312
2026-09-28	0.00334
2026-10-05	0.00291
2026-10-12	0.00219
2026-10-19	0.00215

• Price on the 22nd of October 2026: $0.002147
• 30-day range: $0.002147 to $0.003339
• Past 90 days: -41.1% (vs. other gaming tokens: +12.6%)
• Past year: -88.9% (vs. other gaming tokens: -63.0%)
• All-time high: $0.115 at launch in March 2025 (now 98.1% lower)

GUN is down 70.6% since the roadmap that promised an October release was published, and 22.1% since the second anniversary on the 8th of October. ^[19] Token tracker Tokenomist lists the next scheduled release of locked GUN on the 31st of October 2026, about 271 million tokens. ^[20]

Gunzilla’s troubles behind the scenes

Gunzilla laid off staff twice in 2025. ^[21] Former employees say pay problems began in June 2025, with some owed four to six months of salary, and they estimate more than half of the team has left. ^[22] In April 2026, more employees went public, naming Korolev and finance chief Taras Basarab. ^[23] Korolev answered that full-time salaries had “never been delayed by more than a week” and called the critics haters. ^[24] we covered those claims in April.

This month, the GUNZ Discord server was taken over by attackers. Gunzilla got it back and told members not to click links posted there for now. ^[25]

Risk warning

GUN has fallen 98.1% from its all-time high and 88.9% in the past year, against 63.0% for other gaming tokens over the same period. ^[19] Off The Grid’s Steam average has stayed between 6,662 and 8,280 players for 15 months. ^[13] Gunzilla has faced public claims of unpaid salaries in 2025 and 2026, and its player figures outside Steam have not been checked independently.

References

1. ↑ “Off The Grid Targets October Full Release” (Game Informer, sponsored post by Gunzilla Games, the 29th of May 2026) Source
2. ↑ “Veteran’s Crest pieces trade on OpenSea as Off The Grid’s six-day login event wraps” (EGamers.io, the 16th of October 2026) Source
3. ↑ “Gunzilla Games Reveals 2026 Roadmap and Confirms Full Release Timing for Off The Grid” (Gunzilla Games, the 29th of May 2026) Source
4. ↑ “Off The Grid on Steam” (Steam, read on the 23rd of October 2026) Source
5. ↑ “Steam Release” (Off The Grid blog, the 18th of July 2025) Source
6. ↑ “Developer Update: Kestrel Executes First Official Ban Wave” (Off The Grid on Steam, the 21st of October 2026) Source
7. ↑ “Why ‘Off the Grid’ Maker Gunzilla Revived Game Informer Magazine” (Decrypt, the 28th of March 2025) Source
8. ↑ “GUNZ Roadmap 2026” (Gunzilla Games, May 2026) Source
9. ↑ “Gunzilla Games Announce Off The Grid, a Next-Generation Battle Royale with Strong Focus on Narrative Progression” (Gunzilla Games press release, the 6th of May 2022) Source
10. ↑ “Off The Grid: Neill Blomkamp shares details on “unique” battle royale from Gunzilla Games” (Dexerto, the 30th of May 2022) Source
11. ↑ “Off The Grid news and updates” (Steam, read on the 23rd of October 2026) Source
12. ↑ “Kostenloser Shooter aus Deutschland startet auf Steam…” (Mein-MMO, the 18th of July 2025) Source
13. ↑ “Off The Grid – Steam Charts” (Steam Charts, read on the 23rd of October 2026) Source
14. ↑ “Off The Grid Sets Full Release For October 2026 With Updated Roadmap” (EGamers.io, the 2nd of June 2026) Source
15. ↑ “Gunzilla Games CEO Responds to Accusations of Not Paying Workers, Calls It Narrative From Haters” (Wccftech, the 10th of April 2026) Source
16. ↑ “GUNZ (GUN): An L1 Built for AAA Web3 Gaming” (Binance Research, the 31st of March 2025) Source
17. ↑ “Off The Grid’s Gunz mainnet migration now starting for EU PC players” (Blockchain Gamer, the 17th of September 2025) Source
18. ↑ “’Off the Grid’ GUN Token Sinks Following Game’s Avalanche L1 Launch” (Decrypt, the 31st of March 2025) Source
19. ↑ “Gunz (GUN) price history” (CoinGecko, to the 22nd of October 2026) Source
20. ↑ “Gunz (GUN) unlocks” (Tokenomist, read on the 23rd of October 2026) Source
21. ↑ “Gunzilla Games Has Second Round of Layoffs in Three Months” (Insider Gaming, the 9th of July 2025) Source
22. ↑ “Ukrainian-German Gunzilla Games delays employee salaries for 4-6 months” (dev.ua, the 13th of February 2026) Source
23. ↑ “Off The Grid developer Gunzilla accused of failing to pay employees” (Game Developer, the 9th of April 2026) Source
24. ↑ “Gunzilla CEO Posts Deranged Rant On Twitter, Disputing His Workers’ Pay Claims And Attacking ‘Haters’” (Aftermath, the 9th of April 2026) Source
25. ↑ “GUNZ Retakes Its Compromised Discord Server, Tells Community To Steer Clear Of Links For Now” (EGamers.io, the 13th of October 2026) Source

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