Tails of Iron 2 Blood and Brine Is Free and Out Now on PS5, Xbox, Switch and PC

Tails of Iron 2: Blood & Brine is out now, and it costs nothing. Odd Bug Studio and publisher United Label released the story expansion for Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter on 21 August 2026, adding 11 quests, 10 bosses and a coastal region called Hardshell Brook. It is live on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC through both Steam and the Epic Games Store.

There is one condition. Blood & Brine is post-game content, so you have to finish the main Whiskers of Winter campaign before the new region opens. Players part-way through the story will not see it in their save.

What Tails of Iron 2 Blood and Brine adds

The expansion sends Arlo to the coast, where two sailors have washed up after their ship was destroyed. Their plan for getting back out to sea is to build an aquarium, draw visitors in and make the money themselves. That framing is what carries the new mechanic: fishing.

• A new coastal region, Hardshell Brook
• 11 new quests
• 10 new bosses
• A fishing mechanic tied to stocking the aquarium
• Nine new armour sets
• New original music, with narration again handled by Doug Cockle

Ten bosses across 11 quests is a dense ratio for a free add-on. For scale, that is closer to a paid expansion's boss count than to the small update drops that usually follow an indie action-RPG a year and a half after launch. Whiskers of Winter itself shipped on 28 January 2025.

The six indie crossover armour sets

Six of the new armour designs are crossovers with other indie games, redrawn in the series' hand-illustrated style so they read as rat-kingdom armour rather than guest costumes. The studio is calling them Indie Heroes. They cover:

• The Penitent One, from Blasphemous
• The Lamb, from Cult of the Lamb
• Dave, from DAVE THE DIVER
• The Crow, from Death's Door
• Will, from Moonlighter
• Boom Boom, from Beyond Galaxyland

These are cosmetic-facing sets in a game where armour also carries weight and resistance values, so expect them to sit alongside the existing gear rather than replace an endgame build. The studio has not published stat sheets for them.

Which platforms get it

Every platform the base game runs on gets Blood & Brine on the same day, including the last-generation versions. That is a wider list than most cross-generation expansions manage — PS4 and Xbox One are both included rather than left behind, which matters for a game that sold heavily on older hardware.

Switch owners get it on the original console. Odd Bug Studio has not said anything about a Switch 2 native version or enhancements, and the expansion is not being sold as a Switch 2 Edition upgrade. Anyone playing on the newer hardware is running the Switch build through backwards compatibility. Nintendo's console pricing has been in flux lately, and we covered the confirmed Switch 2 price increase in the UK earlier this week.

What the studio has not published

Three things are missing from the announcement. There is no download size for any platform, no patch version number, and no word on whether the expansion carries fixes for existing bugs alongside the new content. Free story expansions are usually delivered as a full game update rather than a separate DLC entry, so the download is likely to be sizeable, but nobody has put a figure on it.

If you are working through a backlog of recent action-RPG releases, this lands in a busy stretch. Nioh 3's update 2.00.02 arrived this week with a save-blocking fix, Mortal Shell 2 opened its early access window, and Duskfade launched across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC at $29.99. Blood & Brine is the only one of them that asks for no money at all.

For players on phones rather than consoles, Tails of Iron 2 has no mobile release and none has been announced. Our list of Android games with proper gamepad support is the nearer equivalent if you want controller-driven action on a handset.