Hytale creator says "right now, the game is not good enough" for an Early Access launch, but when that happens, it'll "feel real Early Access"

Screenshot from Hytale, showing three warriors with a sword, bow, and staff sighting a big, icy dragon. — (Image credit: Riot Games)

Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme says Hytale isn't ready for an Early Access launch simply because it isn't "good enough" yet for one.

This week, Collins-Laflamme announced that he'd bought back the rights to Hytale from Riot Games six months after the company shut down the project and closed its development team. In the wake of that fantastic news, AntVenom managed to score an interview with Collins-Laflamme, who dove into the current state of the project. The TLDR is that it needs more time in the oven, and it sounds like even when it does release into Early Access, it'll be fairly bare-bones.

Of course, just the fact that Hytale is back at all is good enough news, and frankly, after such a turbulent development process I'm pleasantly surprised that Collins-Laflamme is talking about release plans at all. That suggests to me that many of the core systems and features Hypixel had been working on independently and then under Riot are still in tact. Collins-Laflamme suggested modding is one of the features that still needs a lot of work.

"Real talk: Hytale isn't some polished AAA release waiting in the wings," he said. "It's messy. It's janky. And there's a lot of work to be done. My plan? Get it out to you as soon as possible. No more waiting. You’ll get to play it, rough edges and all. It won’t be perfect on day one. My hope is that together, we'll shape it into something truly special."