Mortal Shell II Devout Edition: What's Included & Price

The Mortal Shell II Devout Edition costs $59.99 / €59.99 / £47.99 — $10 more than Standard — and adds up to 72 hours of Advanced Access starting August 17, 2026, plus an exclusive Obsidian skin set for all eight playable Shells on top of the full base game.

What's Included in the Devout Edition

Devout is built on the Standard edition, not a separate product line. Buy it and you get everything Standard offers plus two extra perks layered on top.

Both Standard and Devout pre-orders also carry the Skeletal Harbinger and Obsidian Harbinger skins as a shared pre-order bonus, according to GameRant and GameTrek. Game8's cosmetics list disagrees and ties those same two Harbinger skins specifically to a Devout purchase. The two official sources (Steam and mortalshell.com) only confirm the 8-Shell Obsidian set as Devout's content, so whether the Harbinger skins are Devout-exclusive is unconfirmed — treat that detail as TBD until an official cosmetics list clears it up.

Price by Platform

Steam's own storefront lists exactly these two paid tiers for PC, plus a free Open Beta download — there's no separate "Revered Edition" sold digitally on PC. On console, pricing splits slightly by store: one platform-pricing report puts Devout at £49.99 on PlayStation 5 digital versus £47.99 on Xbox digital, both landing around $59.99 / €59.99. That gap looks like normal storefront pricing rather than any difference in content, but treat the exact GBP figure on your platform as worth double-checking at checkout.

Advanced Access: When It Actually Starts

Once the game is out for everyone on August 20, the early-access perk stops mattering — anyone buying Devout after that date is paying purely for the Obsidian skin set.

How to Claim Your Devout Bonuses

The bonuses don't just appear in your inventory — you have to reach a specific point in-game and then equip them manually.

1. Complete the tutorial by defeating the Tar Golem boss to reach Marrow Keep. That's roughly 10-30 minutes of playtime, and it's skippable if you already finished the open beta — though some achievements still require playing through the tutorial.
2. At any Beacon, select Change Shades.
3. The Harbinger shades (the shared pre-order skins) can be equipped immediately once you reach Marrow Keep.
4. Each Obsidian Shell shade only becomes selectable after you've unlocked that specific Shell in-game and equipped it as your active Shell. The Obsidian Genessa shade, for example, won't show up until you've unlocked the Genessa Shell itself.
5. If no pop-up confirming your bonuses appears on first boot despite owning Devout, the rewards didn't register — contact support rather than assuming they'll show up later.

For context, cosmetics beyond the pre-order/Devout set — non-Devout Shell Shades like Eredrim's "King in Yellow" or Genessa's "Porcelain Prime" — are unlocked separately, using Blackmarrow Keys on chests near the Marrow Keep elevator.

Can You Buy Devout After Launch?

Yes, on Xbox at least — a standalone "Devout Edition Upgrade" add-on lets someone who already owns Standard buy just the Devout content afterward. The catch is that the upgrade only delivers half the value if you wait: the Obsidian skin set still unlocks fine, but the 72-hour Advanced Access perk is tied to the pre-order/launch window specifically, so buying the upgrade after August 20 gets you the skins with no early-access benefit at all.

Is the Devout Edition Worth It?

The reasoning boils down to two separate perks. Advanced Access only matters if you're planning to play on or before launch day — buy after August 20 and that part of Devout is moot. The Obsidian skin set is purely cosmetic and has no effect on story or gameplay systems, so it's worth it only if you care about how your Shells look.

One editions-comparison piece frames Devout as "the strongest middle ground" of the available tiers if Mortal Shell II is already a day-one purchase for you, since the jump from Standard is only $10 and Advanced Access gives that jump a clear purpose. If you're only lightly interested in the game, Standard covers the entire base experience, and you can always add the Devout upgrade later if it becomes available on your platform.

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