Hytale honcho says early access will be $20 because ‘charging more didn’t feel right’: He doesn’t think the game is good yet, but ‘my team and I will push hard to make it good, then great’

Hytale is saved, yes, but there’s still a long way to go. The ambitious Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG was canceled by Riot after developers “couldn’t bring Hytale to life in a way that truly delivered on its promise,” , and its new goal is to deliver “the original vision for Hytale,” from before it turned into a sprawling seven-year project. Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme said in a post on X that original vision comes with a relatively humble price tag: $20, or “as aggressively low as possible.”

As Laflamme notes in his post, the game effectively lost four years of development as the build the new team is working with is quite old. But the restart is also an opportunity to cultivate good will for a project that’s mostly languished in the public eye for the better part of a decade: “Charging more didn’t feel right. I don’t think the game is good yet. My team and I will push hard to make it good, then great. The vision is clear and progress is fast.”