Hytale Will Skip Steam at Launch to Prevent a Wave of Negative Reviews
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The developers of the hotly awaited game Hytale want to do without a release on Steam – at least at the beginning. That's why they call it a good reason. What about Hytale? The story of the game is full of twists. While Hypixel Studios' Sandbox RPG was in development for a long time, Riot Games, which bought the developer in 2020, stopped the work in 2025. Only in November 2025, there was the good news for fans: Hytale is saved and the developme…
Hytale won’t initially run its early access through Steam, but it’ll definitely focus on PC first
Hyped for Hytale’s early access in January? Same, bro, same. Extra hyped for how cheap it’s gonna be – just 20 dollarbux. But if you were hoping to immediately jump into the fun through Steam, simmer down those hopes. Hypixel executive director Patrick “Lyall” Derbic has penned a new dev blog on the revivified MMO, […]
Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet"
Revived Minecrafty survivabuilder Hytale got a fresh early access release date of January 13th the other week. However, the team behind it how now confirmed you shouldn't expect to see it hit Steam at that point, with the game's executive director not seeing the need to knock on Valve's pipe-laden door yet and keen to avoid an early access spent drowning in negative reviews.
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