Hero image: Dispatch. Image: AdHoc Studio
Dispatch is coming to your phone, and the first four episodes are free!
AdHoc Studio announced it in its one-year anniversary post on 22 October. The mobile release date is 9 December 2026, on iOS and Android, with support for Google Play Games on PC. Under what is included, the post says “The base game, rebuilt for touch and vertical play.”
Here is how the price works. You play the opening four episodes for nothing, which the studio calls the entire opening half of the story, and then you choose whether to unlock the rest. The full game is US$19.99 and, in the post’s words, “prices will vary by region.” There is no Australian price yet, so we won’t guess one (we’d rather be right than quick!).
The post doesn’t name Australia. It lists the regions as “All regions where PC and console are sold except China and Japan.”
Pre-registration on Google Play and pre-orders on the App Store are both listed as coming soon. If you’d rather play on PC now, the Australian Steam page listed Dispatch at A$35.16 on 26 October, which was 20% off A$43.95.
The studio also says more than five million players have joined since the game launched a year ago.
What: Dispatch on iOS and Android. When: 9 December 2026. Where: the App Store and Google Play, with the first four episodes free. So pop it in the diary and get ready to answer the call!
Source: AdHoc Studio – Happy One-Year Anniversary, Dispatch!, Steam – Dispatch (Australia)