Airport Contraband: Prologue

App 3199880 is the free prologue. It is not the April demo, and it does not have a published hour count.

The prologue store page dates the release to 27 Aug 2026. Steam news the same day marks the launch. I had a keyword that asks how long the prologue is. The store text answers with a design choice, not a clock: it is open-ended, and you can keep the shift going. I will not fill that gap with a two-hour or three-hour guess.

What the prologue page adds, compared with the demo

• Roguelike pressure is louder here, and the hangar opens. The April demo store page keeps you in the terminal.
• An illness pass: coughing, sneezing, dizziness, and stomach pain. You decide whether that is contagious or an allergy.
• Cargo checks. Crates and hidden compartments can both hide goods. The full-game news later talks about a crane; the prologue is where cargo inspection shows up in the store copy.
• Perk picks, and a new-identity loop if you are fired. The page says permanent progress stays.
• A joke line in the feature list: free smuggled capybaras. That matches the capybara running gag on the paid store gallery.

Hotfixes numbered for the prologue landed on 28 Aug, 29 Aug, and 31 Aug 2026, according to the Steam news list. Those notes belong to app 3199880. The October hotfixes on the updates page belong to the paid app. I keep those calendars apart so a prologue patch is not described as a full-game patch.

Play

Prologue on Steam

Free. App 3199880.

Not the demo

The demo is the April terminal slice.