Resonance Pre-Orders Open With Free Heritage Pack Bonus

With the August 27, 2026 release date now official, pre-orders for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy have gone live across all platforms, and they come with a free pre-order incentive: the Heritage Pack. Here’s the rundown on what’s available, what the bonus includes, and the honest answer to whether you should bother.

Pre-orders are live everywhere

You can now pre-order Resonance on:

• Steam and the Epic Games Store (PC)
• PlayStation Store (PS5)
• Xbox / Microsoft Store (Xbox Series X|S)

All versions release the same day — August 27 — with no platform getting an unfair head start. Pre-ordering on console typically lets you pre-load the game in the days before launch so it’s ready to play the moment it unlocks.

The Heritage Pack

The headline pre-order incentive is the Heritage Pack, offered free to anyone who pre-orders at the time of writing. As a pre-order bonus, it’s the usual sort of thing — a small bundle of extra content as a thank-you for committing early. The exact contents are listed on each storefront’s product page, and we’ll detail the full breakdown here once it’s confirmed consistently across platforms.

As always with these packs, manage your expectations: it’s a nice perk, not a transformative addition. The Heritage Pack doesn’t change the core game, and it shouldn’t be the deciding factor in whether you buy.

Editions

Beyond the standard edition, expect at least one higher tier — typically a Deluxe or Premium edition bundling digital extras like the soundtrack, a digital art book, and possibly early access. Given how good Olivier Deriviere’s scores have been across the series, the soundtrack alone is a tempting inclusion for fans. We’ll confirm the exact edition names, contents and prices as they finalise.

The Game Pass factor

Here’s the part worth repeating loudly: Resonance is on Xbox Game Pass day one. If you subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass, you can play the full game at launch without buying it, and Xbox Play Anywhere means your progress carries between Xbox and PC.

For a lot of players, that makes pre-ordering unnecessary. There’s no reason to pre-purchase a game you’ll already have access to through a subscription. The only good reasons to pre-order anyway are if you want the game permanently in your owned library, you specifically want the Heritage Pack cosmetics, or you want a Deluxe-tier extra like the soundtrack.

Should you pre-order?

Our advice is the same as it always is for a digital, non-limited release: only pre-order if it genuinely benefits you. The game won’t sell out, day-one reviews will be available, and Game Pass covers a huge chunk of the audience already. Pre-order if you want the bonus or the pre-load convenience; otherwise, there’s zero harm in waiting until launch day — or until reviews land — to decide.

We go deeper on the editions, pricing logic and the pre-order decision in our full pre-order and editions guide. For the launch details, see the release date guide.