Endfield Steam Wishlist Milestone Event — Rewards & How to Participate

On August 13, 2026, the official Arknights: Endfield team announced the Wishlist Milestone Event to celebrate the game's upcoming launch on Steam. It's a community-wide event: every time the total number of Steam wishlists crosses a milestone, rewards unlock for all Endministrators — up to a special commemorative portrait frame at the final goal of 300,000 wishlists. The event costs nothing and takes about a minute to enter: just add the game to your Steam wishlist. This guide explains how the event works, exactly what each milestone pays out (straight from the official notice), and what we know so far about the Steam launch itself. The full announcement is archived in our news archive.

What is the Wishlist Milestone Event?

The Wishlist Milestone Event is an official community milestone campaign tied to the Steam release of Arknights: Endfield. Instead of individual tasks, progress is tracked collectively — rewards are unlocked as the combined wishlist count on the Steam store page reaches set thresholds. Once a milestone is crossed, the corresponding reward is available to the player base as a whole.

Key facts from the official notice:

• Announced: August 13, 2026, via the official announcement on endfield.gryphline.com.
• Event period: from the start of the event on Aug. 13, 2026 until the official launch of Arknights: Endfield on Steam — the notice states the exact launch date will be announced later.
• Goal: reach the final milestone of 300,000 wishlists to unlock the special commemorative portrait frame.
• Where: the official Steam store page (store.steampowered.com/app/4732690).

Steam will be a brand-new platform for the game, which is currently available on PC, PlayStation 5 and mobile. The wishlist event is one of several Steam-launch preparations running right now — alongside the Steam Pioneer Test, which opened recruitment on August 26, 2026.

Milestone rewards — every tier, with exact amounts

The official notice lists four milestones. All amounts below are quoted directly from the announcement:

• Phase 1 (30,000 wishlists): T-Creds ×8,000
• Phase 2 (100,000 wishlists): Elementary Cognitive Carrier ×2
• Phase 3 (200,000 wishlists): Arms INSP Set ×2
• Final Goal (300,000 wishlists): Special Commemorative Portrait Frame ×1

Here's what each reward actually does, per the EndfieldDex item database:

• T-Creds — the standard in-game currency ("TC for short"), used across shops and systems for purchases and crafting.
• Elementary Cognitive Carrier — an operator EXP material that provides EXP for leveling up Lv.61–90 operators, so it's most valuable once your roster is well into the mid-to-late progression range.
• Arms INSP Set — a high-tier weapon EXP material that provides a lot of weapon EXP; handy for pushing 5★/6★ weapons toward higher levels.
• Special Commemorative Portrait Frame — a limited commemorative cosmetic for your in-game profile, and the headline reward of the campaign.

The notice does not specify how or when milestone rewards will be delivered — for distribution details, keep an eye on official channels and our news archive as the launch approaches.

How to participate

There's no survey, no purchase and no code to redeem — participation is simply adding the game to your Steam wishlist:

1. Open the official Steam store page: Arknights: Endfield on Steam.
2. Click the Add to your wishlist button (you'll need a Steam account; wishlisting is free).
3. That's it — your wishlist counts toward the community milestones automatically.

There is no downside to wishlisting: it costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and you'll get a Steam notification when the game launches. If you already wishlisted the game before the event started, your existing wishlist counts toward the milestones too.

Why wishlist now: what we know about the Steam launch

The event runs until the Steam launch, and the official team has already shared details about the Steam version's rollout through the Pioneer Test notice (Aug. 26, 2026). The most important confirmed points:

• Cross-platform sync: during the playtest, the Steam version runs on the live servers, with game content, account data and progress synced across all platforms — and no data wipe.
• Pioneer Test sign-up: recruitment runs Aug. 26 at 12:00 – Sept. 10, 2026 at 13:00 (UTC+8) via an official survey. Access is limited — submitting the questionnaire does not guarantee a slot. Testers who log into the Steam version for 5 days earn Oroberyl ×180, T-Creds ×16,000 and Elementary Cognitive Carrier ×15, delivered after the official Steam launch.
• PC requirements: the notice lists Windows 10/11 64-bit (DirectX 11.1 or later), 16GB RAM, and roughly 50GB of free space plus 40GB for extraction. Minimum GPU is an NVIDIA GTX 1060 or equivalent; recommended is an RTX 2060 or better with an Intel Core i7-10700K or equivalent CPU.

In short: the Steam version is coming soon, progress carries across platforms, and the wishlist campaign is the community milestone running in parallel with the Pioneer Test. If you want the commemorative portrait frame, every wishlist counts — and if you want early access, apply for the Pioneer Test before September 10.

Plan your launch resources while you wait

Between now and launch, it's a good time to plan how you'll spend your T-Creds and EXP materials. The milestone rewards (8,000 T-Creds and two Arms INSP Sets) are useful but modest — the free currency you can stockpile in-game before launch matters more. Useful planning resources:

• Track current and upcoming banners with our banner schedule and headhunting tracker.
• Learn how the gacha economy works before you spend — see the headhunting guide.
• Browse the full roster and their materials in our character database.

There's also an official planning aid: the Progression Calculator, added to the SKPORT game tools during the Homecoming version (announced July 23, 2026). Per the official notice, you can select operators and weapons, set target progression levels, and see an overview of all materials needed — up to 8 operators per plan with combined requirements. You can optionally sync your Depot resources to compare what you're missing against your current inventory, which is exactly the kind of check worth doing before the Steam launch so your T-Creds and EXP materials go where they matter. Our news archive has the full Game Tools update notice.

Frequently asked questions

Sources: official announcements from endfield.gryphline.com — Wishlist Milestone Event (Aug. 13, 2026), Steam [Pioneer Test] Recruitment Open! (Aug. 26, 2026) and Game Tools Updated for the New Version (July 23, 2026). Milestone amounts, event dates, test rewards, PC requirements and tool features are quoted from those notices; item descriptions (T-Creds, Elementary Cognitive Carrier, Arms INSP Set) are from the EndfieldDex item database. All times are UTC+8 as stated in the announcements.