Silver Palace at gamescom 2026: Booth Map, Stage Schedule, Cosplayers and Free Gifts

Elementa confirmed it on August 14: Silver Palace is going to gamescom. The announcement names Hall 6, Booth C021, and the key art adds a second location, Hall 2-A019, for the full run of the show in Cologne, August 26 to 30, 2026.

Those two stands are not interchangeable, and the difference matters before you plan a route. More on that below.

Elementa has since published the rest of it: a booth map, four on-site activities, a daily stage program that runs to 19:45, ten booth cosplayers and four guest creators. The invitation that came with it reads: "Silver Palace is ready for gamescom 2026, and we can't wait to meet you there. Step inside to see what we have in store and take a piece of Silvernia home with you. Everything worth discovering awaits at Hall 6, Booth C021!"

This is the sixth stop on the 2026 world tour and the game's second European appearance after Japan Expo in Paris. It is also the largest room it has played to date. gamescom sold out every square metre of exhibition space for the first time in its history this year, roughly 233,000 of them.

Where to find Silver Palace

The official map marks Hall 6 on the Koelnmesse site plan, then zooms into the hall grid to place C021 on the right-hand side of the block, with the marked route running in along the top aisle. Enter Hall 6 from that end and you reach the stand without crossing the floor.

Both the key art and the booth map print the two stands side by side, which reads like a choice. It isn't. The official Koelnmesse exhibitor registry lists Elementa Games Pte. Ltd. at Hall 6.1 C021 and Hall 2.2 A019a, and gamescom's own hall allocation puts Halls 2, 3 and 4 in the business area, closed to standard visitor tickets. Hall 2 is the B2B stand: press, platform holders, partners, publishing meetings.

If you are going as a fan, Hall 6.1 Stand C021 is your booth, and it is the only one you can reach.

That split is a signal in itself. HoYoverse runs the same setup this year (consumer stand in Hall 6.1, business stand in Hall 4.2), as does NetEase. Elementa is exhibiting at the tier where a publisher books a trade booth as well as a show floor booth, which is a step up from the single convention stands the tour has used so far.

One more scheduling note worth spelling out: August 26 is a trade visitor and media day. On a standard ticket your first chance to reach Hall 6 is Thursday August 27, and the public floor then runs through Sunday August 30. The booth does run its full stage program on the 26th, so a trade or press badge gets you the opening day as well. Opening Night Live, the showcase everyone streams, runs on the evening of August 25, before the halls open at all.

Hall 6 is the best room at the show

Hall 6 is gamescom's entertainment area, and it is the most concentrated hall on the site. Only 24 exhibitor records list a Hall 6 stand at all, against 669 in the indie and family hall. Stand C021 sits in the middle of that row:

• Ubisoft at C011 and B010, immediately on one side, with Rayman Legends Retold playable and the Community Lounge back for developer panels.
• HoYoverse at B030 and C031, immediately on the other, across roughly 660 square metres, with Honkai: Nexus Anima and Petit Planet both playable for the first time alongside Genshin, Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero zones.
• Bandai Namco at B021 and A020 across the aisle, running a fully playable lineup: Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3, and The Blood of Dawnwalker.
• EA at B011 and Grinding Gear Games at B031 in the same block.
• Further along the hall, Level Infinite at C071 and A070 hosts Remedy, Funcom, Crytek, Bohemia and Paradox on one shared stand, including the first public hands-on for CONTROL Resonant.

Sitting next to HoYoverse is the single most consequential thing about this placement. It is the biggest gacha queue at the show, and everyone standing in it walks past C021 to get there.

The key art, character by character

Five of the cast turned out for the poster, staged in an Art Nouveau parlour with a brass telescope, stained-glass lamps, white lilies, and two black cats watching from the staircase. Left to right:

• Rex, the Superintendent, in the peaked cap of the River Constabulary with red Fulmen light bleeding off his glove. Arms crossed, turned away from the group, standing apart from everyone. About right for him.
• Red Rose, the Dancer, perched on the arm of the chaise in her black corset and red ruffles.
• Hugin, the male Detective, centre and seated, top hat on, purple-lined coat spread across the cushions.
• Munin, the female Detective, standing behind him under a wide-brimmed hat with her thigh holster visible.
• Firtho, the Corner Clinic's doctor, at the far right in her white coat with surgical scissors in hand.

Worth noting who is absent. Cinderella has fronted a large share of the recent marketing and she is not in this piece. The five who are here read as the Detective duo plus three of Silvernia's institutions: the constabulary, the aristocracy, and the clinic.

Free gifts and the four booth activities

Elementa numbers four activities at the stand, and they cost different amounts of effort. Three of them are the gift ladder the tour has run since Los Angeles. The fourth is new.

01 Welcome, Detective! Visit the reception desk and pick up a free exclusive Detective's Starter Kit. No conditions attached. The bundle in the official art holds a set of in-world newspaper and document prints, art cards, a kraft folder, a chibi character hand fan, and a printed gift bag in two sizes.

02 Post and Pre-register. This one changed for Cologne. At Anime Expo, Japan Expo and Anime NYC the coaster went to anyone who followed the official X account and pre-registered. At gamescom you have to post: photograph the booth sculpture or the cosplayers, share it on X with #SilverPalace #gamescom2026, then pre-register on the spot. You get one of six coaster designs, handed out at random. Note what that requirement gives away, incidentally: there is a sculpture at the booth big enough to be worth photographing, which no earlier stop had.

03 Play the Demo. The on-site demo is confirmed for gamescom. Finish it and you receive a limited-edition acrylic art card. This is the one you have to play for, and the one worth budgeting real time around, because the combat and investigation loop takes a few minutes to click.

04 Unlock Exclusive Surprises. A fourth tier with no equivalent at any previous stop. The art shows a poster or wall scroll, a folder, and a set of postcard prints. Elementa has not printed an unlock condition for it, so how you earn these is something you will have to ask at the booth.

The daily stage schedule

The stage runs from 09:00 to 19:45, nearly eleven hours. For scale, Anime Expo ran 09:00 to 16:00 and Japan Expo ran a compressed 10:30 to 15:00. There are two versions of the day.

August 26, 27 and 30

August 28 and 29

Three things to plan around. The Trailer Showcase is a fixed 09:00 opener and the only slot on the board that is not people, so if you want to see it you have to be at the hall door when it opens. There are four Live Stage Performances a day, at 11:10, 15:00, 17:00 and 18:00 on most days, each only fifteen minutes long, which makes them easy to miss and easy to catch. And the Influencer Special Session moves depending on the day: 13:20 to 14:20 on the 26th, 27th and 30th, and a longer 12:50 to 14:50 block on the 28th and 29th.

Everything else is meet and greet, which is the real structure here. The cosplayers are on the stand for most of the day rather than appearing in scheduled blocks, so there is no wrong time to turn up. Elementa prints the usual caveat: program details are subject to on-site arrangements.

Special guest appearances

Four creators are booked, and this is the first stop on the tour where Elementa has brought in local-language talent rather than working through cosplayers alone. All four are German-market names, which tells you who this booth is aimed at.

Lay those times against the stage schedule and they line up exactly with the Influencer Special Session slot on each day. That block is not a generic creator segment: it is one named guest per day, and KingChris takes two of the five. Every day of the show has one, so whichever day you pick, the early-afternoon slot is the busiest hour at the stand.

Booth cosplayers

Ten cosplayers are appearing across the five days, the largest lineup the tour has fielded. Anime Expo had seven, Japan Expo six, and Anime NYC three the week before this.

• Piichame
• Anaelic
• Chandary
• Frozam
• xier
• Siyanrainie
• Ashu
• xiankegege
• Xia
• maoguan

xier is the one direct carryover, appearing at Anime NYC on August 20 to 23 and then in Cologne from the 26th. The other nine are new to the tour. Elementa has not said which characters any of them are cosplaying, and at ten across five days you are unlikely to see the whole lineup on any single day.

There is a reason to care beyond the freebies. The Dichotomy Beta Test closed on August 13 and wiped its data. Until the next test opens, the tour's late-August stops, Anime NYC at Booth 2011 on August 20 to 23 and then gamescom, are the only places to put hands on the game at all.

Who else is at gamescom 2026

This is the biggest edition the show has run. Every exhibition area sold out for the first time in gamescom's history, roughly 233,000 square metres of it, and the exhibitor directory is already past the 1,568 record set in 2025.

Opening Night Live on August 25, hosted by Geoff Keighley with Eefje "sjokz" Depoortere, has Metro 2039 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past officially confirmed, both targeting 2027.

Three notable absences shape the floor this year: Sony has no consumer booth (PlayStation appears only inside the German industry association's business stand in Hall 4.1), Take-Two and Warner Bros. are business-only on that same stand, and THQ Nordic is skipping the show entirely. There is less blockbuster competition for attention than usual.

Where everyone else is:

Two things worth knowing before you queue. Fable is a theatre presentation at the Xbox booth, not hands-on, and Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 and Silent Hill: Townfall are not playable either. Xbox's booth also keeps public hours of 27 to 30 August only, with a FanFest on the evening of the 26th.

The practical read for a Silver Palace fan: Hall 6 is small, dense, and holds three of your four most relevant stands. Start there on Thursday morning, then work outward to Hall 7 for Xbox and SEGA and Hall 9 for Capcom and Nintendo in the afternoon.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I visit the Hall 2 booth?

No, not on a standard visitor ticket. Halls 2, 3 and 4 are gamescom's business area and are restricted to trade visitors and accredited media for the whole show. Hall 2.2 Stand A019a is Elementa's B2B booth. The public booth is Hall 6.1 Stand C021.

Can I visit the booth on August 26?

Not on a standard visitor ticket. August 26 is the trade visitor and media day, and the public floor runs August 27 to 30. The booth itself is open and running its full stage program on the 26th, including the KingChris appearance from 13:20 to 14:20, so a trade or press badge gets you the opening day.

Will there be a playable Silver Palace demo at gamescom?

Yes. Activity 03 on the official booth events panel confirms an on-site demo experience, and completing it earns a limited-edition acrylic art card. That matches every tour stop with published booth details so far.

Where exactly is Stand C021 in Hall 6?

Between Ubisoft at C011 and HoYoverse at B030, with Bandai Namco at B021 across the aisle. Hall 6 has only 24 exhibitors in total, so it is a short walk from one end to the other.

Is the Dichotomy beta still running?

No. It closed on August 13, 2026 and the data was wiped. No date has been announced for the next test.

What time does the Silver Palace stage program run at gamescom?

09:00 to 19:45 every day of the show. The day opens with a 30-minute Trailer Showcase at 09:00, then alternates cosplayer meet and greets with four fifteen-minute Live Stage Performances at roughly 11:10, 15:00, 17:00 and 18:00, plus a guest creator session in the early afternoon.

How do I get the character coaster at gamescom?

Photograph the booth sculpture or the cosplayers, post it on X with the hashtags #SilverPalace and #gamescom2026, then pre-register for the game at the stand. You receive one of six designs at random. This is a change from earlier tour stops, which only asked you to follow the official account.

Which creators are appearing at the Silver Palace booth?

KingChris on August 26 and 28, HoneyPuu on August 27, Icrimax on August 29, and RvNx Mango on August 30. Each takes that day's Influencer Special Session slot, 13:20 to 14:20 on the 26th, 27th and 30th and 12:50 to 14:50 on the 28th and 29th.

How many cosplayers are at the gamescom booth?

Ten: Piichame, Anaelic, Chandary, Frozam, xier, Siyanrainie, Ashu, xiankegege, Xia and maoguan. It is the largest lineup of the 2026 tour, against seven at Anime Expo and three at Anime NYC.

Is Silver Palace at gamescom asia too?

Yes. gamescom asia in Bangkok, October 29 to November 1, 2026, is the last stop on the announced tour. No booth details for it have been published.

Can't make it to Cologne?

Expo announcements have gone up on the official channels the same day they happen, and this site covers them as they land. In the meantime the character roster is the fastest way to learn the cast before the next test, and the Dichotomy beta review is the fullest account of what the game currently plays like.