Hytale enters early access after years of delays and a studio buyback

Kotaku reports that Hytale, the long-delayed blocky survival game from Hypixel Studios, has entered early access following a protracted development history.

The game has been in production since 2015, received early financial support from Riot Games and was bought by Riot in 2020, then cancelled by Riot in June 2025. In November the project’s founder, Simon Collins-Laflamme, reacquired the IP and, two months later, the game launched into early access. In its first 24 hours Hytale became the most-watched game on Twitch with 420,000 viewers, and Collins-Laflamme said pre-orders had secured two further years of development funding alongside his personal commitment of ten years.

Hytale is incomplete in early access: the central hub shows many “Under Construction” signs, Adventure mode is not yet added, and the team warns many features are missing and bugs are expected. A first hotfix addressed crashes caused by eyebrows, a bug preventing some Norwegian players from launching, and a bucket-related breakage. The PC release already supports modding, plans exist for PS5 and Xbox, and the current Exploration mode offers procedurally generated biomes, large structures, crafting and a nascent story with a Forgotten Temple and NPC tasks; Adventure mode is promised to add more RPG-like elements.

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