Scars of Honor FAQ

Yes. Beast Burst has described it as free-to-play in every recorded statement on the subject, with no box price and no mandatory subscription, and the Steam listing carries the Free to Play tag. The stated reasoning is population: an MMO needs people in it, and an entry fee keeps them out. Planned revenue is cosmetic and convenience — skins, battle passes and an optional appearance subscription that removes limits on transmog changes.

There is no release date. As of July 2026 the developers' position is that the game releases when it is ready, and a 2026 launch has been ruled out. Early Access is estimated at Q1 2027 in the most recent material, and it has already been pushed back more than once. The full dated record of every timing statement is on the release date page.

Not now, and not soon. On 13 February 2026 Beast Burst published a PC Focus Update postponing the mobile version indefinitely so the team could finish the PC game first. It was explicitly not cancelled — the studio wrote that this does not mean they are cancelling mobile, and that it remains part of their long-term vision. No timeframe was attached. The mobile page has the full chronology.

Through Steam. Access to the April–May 2026 technical alpha was requested on the Steam store page and granted in waves by email and Steam notification; more than 110 000 requests came in before it opened. There is no request-access button on the store page at the time of writing and no date for the next test. See the playtest page for what was playable and how access worked.

Ten are documented: Warrior, Paladin, Ranger, Mage, Druid, Priest, Assassin, Necromancer, Mystic and Pirate. Only four — Mage, Paladin, Druid and Ranger — were playable in the April–May 2026 alpha, where Mage was the most-picked class with Paladin close behind. Each class has a talent tree measured in the hundreds of nodes. See the class hub.

Two factions at war: the Sacred Order and the Domination. Eight races are documented between them — Human, Sun Elf, Dwarf and Bearan on one side, Orc, Infernal Demon, Undead and Gronthar on the other. Six were selectable in the 2026 alpha, where the Sacred Order was the most-chosen faction. See the races pages.

The developers say no, repeatedly and specifically: power, progression and access are not to be sold. A proposed paid backpack-space feature was dropped after players called it pay-to-win, and the studio says it has turned down investment that would have required changing that position. None of this is verifiable until a shop exists, so treat it as a stated commitment rather than a tested one.

The client is built in Unity, chosen years ago partly for hiring and for mobile support, before the current Unreal Engine 5 era. The server is not Unity: it runs on an in-house C++ engine the studio calls Vibranium, built for MMO-scale concurrency and holding world state authoritatively. No Unity version or render pipeline has ever been named publicly.

Steam lists a minimum specification only: Windows 10 64-bit, an Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite, 8 GB RAM, an Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 with 4 GB or more of VRAM, and DirectX 11. There is no recommended column and no storage figure. The system requirements page quotes the listing and explains what it does and does not tell you.

Not as of the 2026 technical alpha, which was keyboard and mouse. The Steam listing carries no controller-support entry among its features. Community relays of the developer FAQ say controller support is on the list but not committed to, and that there is no official Steam Deck support at first, though community controller profiles may make it playable.

It was the plan while mobile was the plan: one shared world, shared progress, PC and mobile players together with only the controls differing. Since the February 2026 PC-focus pivot, nobody has restated it. With mobile postponed indefinitely, treat PC-to-mobile crossplay as an unconfirmed plan from a superseded era rather than a promised feature.

Duels and party duels, a 5v5 battleground, arena in several formats, and faction-based open-world PvP between the Sacred Order and the Domination. The April–May 2026 alpha recorded more than 100 000 PvP kills across its twelve days. The PvP page separates what has been played from what is still a design draft.

Yes — app 4253010, with Beast Burst Entertainment listed as both developer and publisher and the release date field set to To be announced. Windows is the only platform icon; no Mac or Linux build is listed. Nine languages are listed, and Ukrainian is not currently among them.

A tester programme announced on 18 July 2026 for players who want to give feedback while features are still flexible: testing prototypes, completing surveys, joining team discussions and sitting for interviews. It grew directly out of the roughly 12 000 feedback reports the technical alpha generated. See the FirstWatch page.

No, and the developers have pushed back on this specifically. The February 2026 PC Focus Update says the art direction and graphic style were never chosen because of mobile but are intentional artistic decisions, and the design line since 2025 has been that this is a PC game ported to mobile rather than the reverse. The stylised look is repeatedly justified as a way to keep hardware requirements low.