PAYDAY: Aces High lands November 5 at $24.99, and its free demo closes on October 26
PAYDAY: Aces High has a release date and a price, and the free demo that arrived with them closes on October 26. Fast Travel Games posted both at 17:00 UTC on October 19: the first PAYDAY built for VR "will come out on both Steam and Meta on November 5th 2026 with a possible PS VR2 launch later", and "the price will be 24.99$".
The second screenshot in the PAYDAY: Aces High gallery on the game's own Steam store page. Image: Fast Travel Games
That figure is the studio's own. The Steam listing carries no price block in either the US or the German store, so nothing on the page sets a euro or sterling equivalent to go with the $24.99.
The demo is two contracts rather than one sliced thin. It covers "the familiar Flowtrust Bank along with a brand new location of a Cosmopolitan Museum of Art", each playable "the stealthy Clubs way or guns blazing Spades way", and its free listing went up on October 19 as a separate app tied to the full game.
Steam lists PAYDAY: Aces High as VR Only, with online co-op and cross-platform multiplayer for up to four players. Image: Fast Travel Games
Fast Travel Games says you can play "as much as you want until Monday, October 26", without attaching a closing time. The studio said in September that the demo would join Steam Next Fest, and Valve's own page ends that event on October 26 at 10:00 Pacific. Everyone who plays the demo gets the Kitty mask in the full game, the reward the Quest listing promised when the playtest was announced in September.
The studio would only say "later this year"
Until now the game had a window rather than a day. Fast Travel Games wrote in its September 24 post announcing the demo that the full game would launch "later this year", and Meta, which showed the game among 28 Quest announcements in June, put a date on the playtest and not on the launch. Steam's release field now reads Nov 5, 2026.
PlayStation owners get the softest wording in the post. "A possible PS VR2 launch later" is as far as Fast Travel Games goes, with no window attached, and "Meta" is the studio's own shorthand for the second platform on November 5, with no Quest price in the post.
Fast Travel Games says the full game follows on November 5 at $24.99. Image: Fast Travel Games
What the Steam page asks of a PC
The minimum spec on the store page is undemanding for a 2026 VR release: a Core i5-7500 or Ryzen 5 1600, 12GB of RAM, a GTX 1060 or RX 580 with 6GB of VRAM and 10GB of storage. Its VR Support line reads "Steam Frame, OpenXR, Index, Quest via link and Oculus Rift S", so Valve's new headset is named on the page alongside hardware as old as the Rift S.
Steam files the game as VR Only, with online co-op and cross-platform multiplayer for up to four players, so there is no flat-screen way in and the demo needs a headset like the full game.
One credit is worth getting right, because the franchise invites the wrong one. The store page files the game under the PAYDAY franchise, but its developer and publisher fields both read Fast Travel Games, so the Stockholm studio is carrying the release as well as building it.
The demo is free until October 26, and the full game follows on November 5 at $24.99.
