Source: official over the hill website. Game imagery © Funselektor and Strelka Games.
The Steam date and the later console window
The developer's August 10 announcement schedules Over the Hill for Steam on October 14, 2026, and the current Steam listing shows the same planned date. The announcement separately places PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 ports in 2027. These are two different release milestones, so a date attached to the Steam version cannot be used as the launch day for every platform.
As of the October 12 research date, the full Steam release is still upcoming and the console versions have a confirmed year rather than a published day in the collected material. The August announcement supersedes older general release expectations that appeared during development or the Demo period. Keeping the exact PC date and the broader console window separate provides a direct answer without introducing a guessed time, a countdown to an invented console day or a claim that release has already happened.
Which console versions are announced
The developer's console announcement explicitly identifies PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch 2, with the later release announcement placing their ports in 2027. The official website also links PlayStation and Xbox stores and displays Switch 2 as a platform. Those named versions are the reliable basis for a platform list, because they come from developer-controlled announcements and official storefront destinations.
Nintendo Switch 2 should be written in full rather than shortened in a way that suggests the original Switch has the same announced support. The same care applies to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, whose identities should not be broadened to older console generations. A source-based platform summary names the actual systems and their stated window, while keeping the Steam launch separate from the later console rollout.
The full game and the separate Demo app
The full-game Steam listing uses app 2929250 and is the official destination for wishlisting and following the planned October 14, 2026 release. The historical public Demo uses a separate app, 4703940, which appears in the developer's Demo announcement and trailer link. These app identifiers refer to different listings, so the existence of the Demo page should not be confused with ownership or availability of the paid full game.
The official website points to the full-game listing, helping connect the store entry with the developer's own description of the project. The Demo announcement documents what the preview contained, while later announcements describe its closure and the full game's release plans. Keeping those destinations separate makes a Steam search useful: one page follows the full launch, and the other belongs to a specific preview whose public availability changed over time.
The announced $24.99 Steam base price
The August 24 pricing announcement gives the Steam base-game price as $24.99 USD, and the updated developer FAQ repeats that figure. This is the price of the game itself, distinct from the separately announced soundtrack, Supporter Pack and combined bundle. Keeping the products separate answers the basic purchase question directly instead of displaying a larger optional bundle total as though it were the cost of the base game.
The announcement also says regional pricing will be used and that a launch discount is planned. Those statements establish the pricing approach without giving a confirmed discount percentage or a final checkout amount for every country. The reliable figure is the announced US base price, with the local store used for the actual offer once it is available rather than applying a currency conversion or a Steam figure to a different platform.
The announced bundle and preorder policy
The developer's pricing announcement gives a $37.99 USD bundle containing the game, soundtrack and Supporter Pack together. That total is a separate offer from the $24.99 base game and the two individually priced extras, each announced at $9.99 USD. It answers what the combined package contains without implying that a player must buy every product to begin exploring the world or join the documented online cooperative mode.
The same announcement says there will be no Steam preorders, placing the purchase policy alongside the planned launch discount and regional pricing. A wishlist can therefore serve as a way to follow the upcoming release without being described as a preorder purchase. These details belong to the announced Steam offer; the separate physical console editions and their later release window are different products and should be followed through their own official announcements.
The public Demo's actual availability timeline
The public Demo opened on June 12, 2026, with its original announcement saying it would remain available until Steam Next Fest ended on June 22. A later developer announcement extended access to June 29, and the June 30 photo-contest announcement explicitly confirmed that Demo access had closed. Reading the sequence in order avoids presenting the original closing date as final or treating the opening announcement as current availability.
The August progress update explains that maintaining the Demo build and free servers before launch was not feasible for the small team. It points instead to limited playtest opportunities through the official community, which are a different form of access from a permanently open public Demo. The collected timeline is therefore a completed preview period followed by continued development, rather than a verified promise that the old Demo link still starts a playable session.
Canada, Algeria and the meaning of a region
The August release announcement names Canada and Algeria as the regions included at launch, with several areas across those regions. The developer FAQ distinguishes a region from the individual areas inside it, describing area-based maps rather than one enormous uninterrupted map. This distinction matters when reading a region count, because two named regions do not imply that there are only two individual areas to explore.
The same FAQ describes the maps as handcrafted and gives an approximate area size of four kilometres by four kilometres. The announcement describes the full game's areas as containing more content than the Demo, which covered Emerald Lake rather than the complete launch world. These facts establish the structure and announced geography without turning a development target for area count into a final inventory of every release map.
Features published on the Steam store
The Steam store lists single-player, online co-op, achievements, Steam Cloud and statistics among its game features. Its description confirms exploring alone or with up to three friends, using recovery equipment and discovering upgrades and portals in the world. These published capabilities describe the Steam version's announced experience without relying on a community tag to establish a feature that the developer has not described.
The same listing provides the current release field, the minimum system requirements and the developer and publisher identity. That makes it a useful destination for several different questions, but each field answers a different one: a platform label is not a benchmark, and a release date is not a currently payable purchase offer. The listed features can be reported directly while purchase pricing and build-specific behavior remain tied to their own dated sources.