Price and Purchase Guide#

Delta Force is a free-to-play (F2P) tactical shooter, so its “price” question is fundamentally different from buy-to-play games: the base game costs nothing, and every place money can go sits inside in-app purchases. Based on store and official information verified on 2026-10-15, this page covers the base game, the paid expansion, Delta Coins, and the Season Pass — current prices and how sources differ — plus purchase advice by player type. All prices in this page are as of 2026-10-15; live store prices prevail.

1. How Much Does the Base Game Cost?#

The base game is free on Steam, Epic, PS5, Xbox, and mobile alike. There is no buy-to-play price and no “all-time low” concept; the only paid expansion, Black Hawk Down, has also gone free.

In buy-to-play terms the cost is zero, and all spending happens inside in-app purchases. Rarer still, the only expansion on the Steam store page, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (App ID 2918370), is also free: the campaign opened free at launch on 2025-02-21; the decision to scrap the original paid plan was confirmed by designer Ricky Liao in an interview with overseas outlet mp1st; the US PlayStation Store likewise lists it as a free chapter. In other words, as of 2026-10-15, this game contains nothing that “requires paying to play.”

The base game being entirely free is not a limited-time tactic — it is the business model itself. Tencent’s official figures at the 2026 two-year anniversary mark: the CN service’s daily active users passed 58 million on 2026-10-08, an all-time peak; and Tencent’s internal bar for an “evergreen game” is mobile quarterly average DAU above 5 million or PC above 2 million, plus annual revenue above 4 billion CNY — this game cleared that bar long ago. Its revenue logic is converting a massive free-player base into in-app purchases, not selling copies: during the 2026 National Day Golden Week the game held a steady top-three spot on the domestic mobile grossing chart and peaked at No. 2 (per Qimai Data), proof that a free entry point and real spending are not in conflict. For players, the conclusion behind these numbers is direct: the officials have no motive to wall any core mode behind a paywall, and a “wait and see if it goes free” mindset is meaningless here — it has been free from day one.

2. Where Does This Game Actually Cost Money? Five Spending Categories at a Glance#

Every core mode is playable without paying; spending concentrates in five categories: the Season Pass, Delta Coins, cosmetic skins, level-skip bundles, and console bundles — and only the Pass affects resource-gain efficiency.

Of the five spending categories, only the Pass is directly tied to resource output; the rest are cosmetic or convenience spending. The Pass free tier costs 0 and is the shared starting point of every spending plan — see what the free tier delivers before deciding to pay; each tier’s concrete outputs and season task lines are covered in Season Pass and Tasks.

Zero-top-up players also have paths to “paid-tier” content — worth knowing before deciding whether to spend. First, Delta Tickets: unlike Delta Coins, they are a circulating currency produced by the Pass and the market side, can buy some cosmetics and Mandelbricks, and effectively convert playtime into a currency that substitutes for top-ups. Second, Mandelbricks: they spawn dynamically in matches; carry one out through extraction and scan it with a “Quantum Key” for a random weapon skin, or sell it directly on the Market for Delta Tickets — the main route to paid-tier weapon skins without spending a cent. Third, event giveaways: during the 2026 second anniversary, the officials handed out 3,900 limited-time Delta Tickets free via staged log-ins and tasks; this limited-time currency can be redeemed directly for event content. In short, spending categories are many, but the wall between “paying” and “experiencing core content” is not high; the top-up advice in Section 3 targets efficiency and cosmetic wants, not entry barriers.

3. Delta Coin Top-Up Tiers: Official and Third-Party Terms#

Delta Coins are a fixed-price virtual currency with no official discount history found; the US PS Store lists six official tiers from $0.99 to $99.99, and no official USD pricing for the Steam in-game tiers was verified.

US PS Store Official Tiers#

The table above is the US PS Store’s official USD pricing, six fixed tiers with no official discount records found. One particular warning: no official USD pricing for the Steam and Epic Delta Coin tiers was directly verified this round; check tier lists circulating online against the live in-game top-up screen.

Third-Party Platform Listings (Unofficial, Reference Only)#

Third-party top-up site topuplive (article dated 2026-04-03) lists the following Delta Coin packs; item names may not match the official ones:

These third-party channels run roughly 9% to 20% cheaper than official, but they are unofficial channels carrying ban risk and cannot be cited as an “official all-time low”; the money-saving plans in Section 5 below rest only on official compliant channels. The above is third-party sourcing; actual in-game tiers prevail.

4. How Much Is the Season Pass?#

CN Advanced 520 Delta Coins (about 52 CNY direct top-up), Deluxe 720 Delta Coins (about 72 CNY), free tier 0; international $6.69 and $9.29, taken from third-party platform listings.

Two sourcing notes. First, international prices come from third-party top-up platform listings, not direct captures from official stores, and item names may not match official ones — another platform, topuplive, lists the Pass as “War Ablaze Battle Pass” at $9.99; the item names on the two sides don’t line up, so note the source when quoting. Second, the CN Pass can only be bought with Delta Coins; Delta Tickets do not work — Delta Tickets are a separate in-game circulating currency, and the boundary between the two is covered in Economy and Trading. Prices above are as of 2026-10-15; live store prices prevail.

Two often-overlooked physical outputs also matter when judging the Pass’s value. One is the Safe Box: the guaranteed container that keeps its contents even when an Operations extraction fails, in four sizes — 1×2, 2×2, 2×3, 3×3 — where the Advanced Safe Box comes with buying the Season Pass, and the Top-Tier Safe Box grants the current season’s usage rights after completing season tasks — for regular Operations players, this one item alone can cover the Pass’s price. Two is operator unlocks: the Pass is not cosmetics-only — support operator Vlinder from S8 “Metamorphosis” and the new S11 “Stars” support Rover both unlock from the Pass free tier, and new operators debuting on the free tier in their launch season is one of this product line’s norms. Which tier to buy, and how big the free-versus-paid gap is, ultimately comes back to each season’s actual output list — see Season Pass and Tasks.

5. The Cheapest Compliant CN Top-Up Plan#

Minimum compliant spend of about 48 CNY: buy two rounds of the “6 CNY + 18 CNY” special supply packs across seasons to reach 520 Delta Coins; the Xinyue Enjoy Card at 98 CNY yields 1,280 Delta Coins, about 7.6-tenths pricing (roughly 24% off).

Three practical details:

1. iOS carries a channel premium: the same Delta Coins cost more in hand on iOS; for official channels, use the Xinyue app or Tencent’s top-up center website to avoid the premium.
2. The special supply packs are a cross-season play: a single season cannot reach 520 Delta Coins; you need two rounds of “6 CNY + 18 CNY” across seasons — suited to long-term accounts, not impulsive single-season spending.
3. Total budget reference: if you also want level-skip bundles beyond the Pass, the overall CN budget runs about 150 to 200 CNY.

6. Any All-Time Low? Free-on-Subscription Records#

A free game has no buy-to-play all-time low, Delta Coins are fixed-price with no official discount record; as of 2026-10-15, no record of the game entering Xbox Game Pass or the PS+ catalog was found either.

Bargain-waiters need one belief updated first: this game’s paid-content structure makes an “all-time low” essentially inapplicable. Three things that kept surfacing in research and are easiest to misread:

1. Subscription catalogs: no record of the game entering any subscription service. The PS Store has a $0.00 PS+ member-exclusive cosmetic bundle (S11 season) — free only to PS+ members, a subscription-member bundle, not “the game joining a free games catalog”; do not conflate the two.
2. Official discount history: both Delta Coins and the Pass are fixed-priced with no official discount records found; the roughly 9% to 20% gap on third-party top-up services is unofficial behavior carrying ban risk, and should not be read as an official discount.
3. Switch version: no Switch version has been announced; claims of a “Switch version” in the market have no official source and no corresponding price.

The Black Hawk Down campaign expansion also needs no discount wait — it is already free; its “all-time low” is free itself. Conclusions above are as of 2026-10-15; for changes to subscription catalogs or bundle policy, defer to official announcements.

7. Purchase Advice: Wait for a Discount or Buy Now?#

Fully free players can play every core mode; if you want to pay, buy the single-mode Advanced tier right at season start and don’t wait for discounts — the Pass is season-bound and replaced each season, and waiting for a low costs you an entire season’s output.

Four conclusions in priority order:

1. Don’t wait for a discount on the Pass: it is bound to the season and replaced with each season; keeping it on an “all-time low watch” is meaningless — if you genuinely intend to buy, buy at season start and use the full season’s output window.
2. Only two official compliant discounts exist: the roughly 48 CNY two-round special supply pack plan and the Xinyue Enjoy Card’s roughly 7.6-tenths pricing — the only two money-saving paths inside official channels.
3. Claim Black Hawk Down directly: free content, no purchase decision required.
4. Two pitfalls to avoid: first, “cheap top-up” services carry ban risk — don’t touch them; second, the iOS top-up premium can be avoided via the Xinyue app or Tencent’s top-up center website.

Related Guides#

• Season Pass and Tasks: each Pass tier’s concrete outputs and season task lines — for deciding which tier to buy.
• Economy and Trading: the in-game economy of Havoc Coins, Delta Tickets, and Mandelbricks — a separate system from Delta Coin top-ups.
• Loot and Stash Management: Safe Box sizes and stash management mechanics — worth a read before judging the Pass’s value.
• Beginner’s Guide and First Steps: before deciding whether to spend, first confirm which mode you main.
• Platform Differences, Settings Optimization, and FAQ: platform differences relate to top-up channel choices; check it for the iOS premium issue.

Prices on this page were verified on 2026-10-15; virtual currency pricing, Pass tiers, and platform policies change with versions — defer to each store’s live pages before buying.

— Long Zhiri, NTGame Editorial Team