All three parts are out
Canto X "The Gaze Bearing" is fully released. Part 1 landed September 17, 2026, Part 2 on September 24, and Part 3 on October 2, so there is nothing left to wait for: the whole chapter is playable now, and the Season Pass rewards gated behind it are unlocked.
If you are here because the date kept moving, that is why the question is still being asked. Canto X was originally set for August 27, and Project Moon delayed it: the schedule meant it would have shipped without voice acting, so they put the choice to players and roughly 90 percent voted to wait for the voiced version. The three-part staggered release was the result.
You also do not need the nine cantos before it. Project Moon made Canto X playable after clearing only Canto I, with a spoiler warning on entry, and it lends you the roster to do it: your Identities are set to level 65 and Uptie III for the duration, with the support options adjusted to match. No other main canto has opened its doors that wide, which makes this the one chapter you can walk into cold after years away.
It is Meursault's focus canto. It is the tenth canto in the game's main narrative, it slots into Season 8, and it takes place after Intervallo VII: Mnestic Experience. The literary spine of the chapter is Albert Camus's The Stranger, the novel whose narrator, Meursault, shares his name with the Sinner getting the spotlight. Alongside the story, Project Moon is shipping a wave of quality-of-life features that longtime players have been asking for since the 3rd anniversary livestream in March 2026.
If you have been holding Modules or saving shards, the calendar below is the thing to plan around, because Season 8 puts four new Identities inside three weeks and the windows overlap.
What Canto X Is
Every main canto in Limbus Company centers one of the twelve Sinners and reinterprets a work of world literature through that character. Canto X hands the lens to Meursault, and the source text is The Stranger, Camus's 1942 novel about a man estranged from his own emotional life who drifts through events, including a killing, with unnerving detachment. It is one of the defining texts of absurdism, and it is a natural fit for a Sinner whose entire presentation is built around flatness, distance, and a gaze that refuses to look away.
The title, The Gaze Bearing, points directly at that theme. Camus's Meursault is defined by how he looks at the world and how the world looks back at him, especially the courtroom that condemns him less for the crime than for his affect. Expect Canto X to lean into observation, judgment, and the weight of being seen.
| Detail | Canto X |
|---|---|
| Title | The Gaze Bearing |
| Focus Sinner | Meursault |
| Source text | The Stranger (Albert Camus) |
| Season | Season 8 |
| Placement | After Intervallo VII: Mnestic Experience |
| Release | Part 1 on September 17, 2026, Part 2 on September 24, Part 3 on October 2 (all out) |
A correction worth stating plainly, because this page carried the wrong date for over a week. Until October 4 it said the finale was "reported for October 10", sourced from coverage of Project Moon's season guide rather than from a primary announcement, and flagged here as reported for exactly that reason. It was wrong. Part 3 went live on October 2, as the Grand Magasin Sisyphe dungeon, which makes the cadence near-weekly after all: September 17, September 24, then eight days to October 2. If you were waiting until the 10th on our say-so, the chapter has been finishable since the 2nd.
Four Identities, not two
For most of this post's life the honest answer here was "unannounced". Then it was two. As of September 26 it is four, and that is the part most schedules have not caught up with, so here is the whole season on one calendar.
| Identity | Rarity | Extraction window | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haute Couture::Le Noir Footwear Hall Ryōshū | 000 | Sept 17 to Oct 1 | Closed, Dispenser only |
| Haute Couture::Boutique du Rouge Ishmael | 000 | Sept 17 to Oct 1 | Closed, Dispenser only |
| Haute Couture::Alteration Shop Rodion | 000 | Sept 24 to Oct 8 | Closed, Dispenser only |
| Haute Couture::Le Noir Brand Manager Don Quixote | 000 | Oct 1 to Oct 15 | Live now |
Windows are KST, from the wiki's Extraction banner history. Three of the four have now closed: the opener took Ryōshū and Ishmael with it on October 1, and Rodion followed on October 8. Don Quixote is the only one you can still pull, and she runs to October 15. Everything else on that list is a Dispenser craft now, which is a delay rather than a loss.
The reveal order was also a useful lesson in not guessing. The obvious assumption was a new Meursault Identity, because Canto X is his chapter and Project Moon usually pairs a focus Sinner with a focus unit. That is not what happened. Meursault gets an E.G.O, not an Identity.
| New Identity | Sins | Damage | Built around |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Noir Footwear Hall Ryōshū | Envy, Pride, Sloth | Blunt | Tremor and Tremor Burst, fed by a unique Preservation charge, behind a Shield layer |
| Boutique du Rouge Ishmael | Wrath, Envy, Lust | Pierce | Bleed, driven by a unique Pulsation charge, with Lust Fragility and an aggro pull |
| Alteration Shop Rodion | Sloth, Envy, Pride | Slash | Buffing your own side: skills that target an ally to apply shields, Offense Level Up and Charge, weighted toward Charge Identities |
| Le Noir Brand Manager Don Quixote | Unannounced | Unannounced | Unannounced |
Rodion is the one worth stopping on. Limbus has had supports for years, but it has not had an Identity that aims at a teammate the way you aim at an enemy, picking who gets the shield and the Charge. Whether that is strong is a question for people who have played with her; that it is structurally new is not in doubt.
Don Quixote is dated and nothing else. Her Extraction is on the calendar for October 1 and Project Moon has put out a teaser, but no kit is public, so treat any tier placement you see for her this week as someone reading a trailer.
Four E.G.O come with the season, and none of them is on a banner:
| E.G.O | Sinner | Risk | How you get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repudiation | Hong Lu | ZAYIN | Season Pass, free at level 30 |
| Mirror-touch | Rodion | TETH | Season Pass, paid track at level 40 |
| Hollow | Faust | WAW | Season Pass, free at level 80 |
| Hollow | Meursault | WAW | Season Pass, paid track at level 120 |
That last column is the one that changes your planning. None of the four costs a shard, so the Extraction decision this season is purely an Identity decision. Two WAW E.G.O in one season is not the usual ration either, and both are named Hollow, shared between Faust and Meursault. For a season built on a book about being looked at, giving the same E.G.O to the chapter's subject and to the Sinner who watches him is not subtle, and it is probably the point.
Our status effects guide covers what Tremor, Bleed and Charge actually do if you are deciding which engine to commit to, and the rate-up schedule tracks each window as it flips.
The Mirror Dungeon that did not arrive
Season 8 is supposed to bring the eighth Mirror Dungeon. Three weeks in, it has not. The live rotation is still Mirror of Names and Spiders, the seventh, which has been the current dungeon since February 19, 2026, and coverage of Project Moon's own season guide says MD8 was not ready for the September 17 launch and is expected shortly after Part 3.
This matters mainly because a lot of season write-ups, including an earlier version of ours, listed MD8 as shipping with the season. It did not, and it still has not: as of October 4 the wiki's Mirror Dungeon page gives Mirror of Names and Spiders, the seventh, as live since February 19, 2026. Coverage expects MD8 shortly after the story patch finished, and the story patch finished on October 2, so it is overdue rather than scheduled. No release date has been announced. There is one hard date attached to it, and it is not the one people want: the wiki's Mirror Dungeon history gives Names and Spiders a scheduled end of October 15, the same day the Don Quixote Extraction closes. That dates when the seventh stops, not when the eighth starts.
Where It Sits in the Timeline
Limbus Company's story is delivered in cantos, with shorter Intervallo side-stories filling the gaps between the big chapters. Canto X follows Intervallo VII: Mnestic Experience, so if you skipped that interlude, clear it before you start Part 1 or the threads will not connect. The chapter also lands inside Season 8, which brings its own battle-pass-style season track, seasonal Identities, and E.G.O. rewards.
Project Moon revealed this roadmap during the game's 3rd anniversary livestream in March 2026, alongside the studio's plans for the rest of the year. Canto X is the centerpiece of that plan.
The Quality-of-Life Wave
Just as notable as the story is what ships around it. The 2026 roadmap committed to a batch of interface and workflow improvements, landing across the Season 8 window. The highlights:
- Drag-and-drop Sinner deployment. Building your team of five before a battle becomes a direct drag instead of tap-cycling through slots.
- Multi-Battle for Luxcavation. The daily EXP and Thread farming grind gets a multi-run option, so you can spend Enkephalin without babysitting every single stage.
- More Announcer and Loadout slots, with presets. Save more full team configurations and swap between them, instead of rebuilding comps by hand every time content changes.
- UI customization. A toggle to hide the UI over characters during combat, a loading-screen illustration selector, and a lobby music changer, all small touches that make the daily loop feel like yours.
None of these change the combat math, but collectively they attack the single biggest complaint about Limbus Company's day-to-day: that farming and team management involved too much manual busywork. Multi-Battle Luxcavation alone gives back real minutes every day.
One change does touch the math. The Sinner level cap rises from 55 to 60 with the season, which quietly resets the ceiling on every Identity you have already maxed. Budget Threads accordingly, because a cap raise is the one upgrade that applies to your whole roster at once instead of to a single unit.
The season track itself runs to level 41, with the top rewards gated behind Part 3. That gate is open: Part 3 landed October 2, so there is no longer a reason to hold off grinding it flat. Meursault takes the season announcer slot, with G.M. Sisyphe and Jeanne alongside him. Season 7's Identities and E.G.O leave the seasonal pool as this opens, and Season 6's return to it.
What to do this week
The chapter is finished and three of the four banners have closed, so there is exactly one decision with a clock on it.
- October 15 is the only live deadline. Don Quixote is the last Season 8 Identity still on a banner. Ryōshū and Ishmael closed October 1, Rodion closed October 8, and all three are Dispenser crafts now.
- She is a support, not a carry. Her passive shields the whole party and slows enemies from Combat Start, which is useful anywhere. Her Pride skills scale off Tremor and Promised Nail already on the target, so she pays out properly in a Tremor team and reads as a generic shielder outside one. Run Tremor and she is the pull of the season.
- Clear Intervallo VII if you have not. Canto X follows it, and Part 3 is where the threads land.
- Hold Threads for the cap raise. 55 to 60 applies across your whole roster at once, which is a bigger Thread bill than any single Identity.
October 15 is worth a second mark on the calendar: it is also the scheduled end of Mirror of Names and Spiders, the seventh Mirror Dungeon. That dates when the current one stops, not when the eighth starts.
New to the game or coming back after a break? Start with our Limbus Company beginner's guide to get your roster and mechanics current, then check the Limbus Company tier list to see which Identities are worth investing in before the new content lands.
Four things people keep asking
When does Canto X release? Part 1 arrived September 17, 2026, Part 2 on September 24, and the finale on October 2. All three are playable. The original August 27 date slipped so the chapter could ship fully voiced, a delay players themselves voted for.
Do I need to finish earlier content first? No, and this is the change worth knowing about. Canto X is playable after Canto I, with your Identities set to level 65 and Uptie III for it. Clearing Intervallo VII: Mnestic Experience first will still make the story land properly, but it is not a gate.
Is there a new Meursault Identity? No. Meursault gets the WAW E.G.O Hollow, off the Season Pass. Season 8's Identities belong to Ryōshū, Ishmael, Rodion and Don Quixote, four in all, every one of them 000.
Does anything I own get worse? Season 7's Identities and E.G.O rotate out of the seasonal pool when this opens, and Season 6's rotate back in. Anything already in your possession stays yours, and the Dispenser still covers what you missed.
Sources: the four Season 8 Identities, the E.G.O list, the September 17 season start and the Canto I accessibility change with its level 65 and Uptie III adjustment are from the Limbus Company Wiki Season 8 page and each Identity's own page. Extraction windows, including Rodion's September 24 to October 8 and Don Quixote's October 1 opening, are from the wiki's Extraction banner history; Project Moon's own account posted the Rodion Identity preview on 2026.09.24 KST. Mirror Dungeon 8's absence is from the wiki's Mirror Dungeon page, which still gives Mirror of Names and Spiders as live since February 19, 2026. The season pass level, announcer list, level cap raise and the expectation that MD8 follows Part 3 come from coverage of Project Moon's Season 8 guide rather than a primary announcement, and are described as reported above. The October 2 Part 3 date replaces the October 10 one this page previously carried: the wiki now documents Part III as playable content (10-4 Grand Magasin Sisyphe, Route C), and dated Part 3 walkthroughs went up October 2, which together outweigh the single season-guide report that gave October 10. Don Quixote's kit was unannounced when this page first listed her; it was published when her Extraction opened on October 1 and her Identity page went live, and the summary above is read off that page rather than paraphrased at second hand. Banner statuses here match lib/banners/limbus-company.ts, verified October 6. Last verified October 10, 2026.
