Alessandro and I began working on BitCraft in 2018. What began as a just messing around with a hex grid tutorial in Unity has become a living, breathing world with an incredible community of players.

Today marks another important milestone in the journey of BitCraft. Today, we’re announcing the beta and launching our Steam page. Over the past 6 years our team has grown to more than 40 developers, artists, and engineers. We’ve fought our way through the technical challenges of building an enormous single world MMORPG. But most importantly, you’ve all helped teach us how we can improve the game through your feedback in our play tests.

The Alpha play tests have been absolutely critical to the design and development of the game. They’ve ensured we stay focused on fixing the actual problems that players experience.

Now it’s time to move to Steam Early Access and Beta. And I have to say, I think we’ve cooked. We’ve finally got our tech dialed in and we’ve dramatically improved the gameplay and experience for Beta. As mentioned in our earlier blog post the Beta will be available to anyone who wants to play, and it’s the first version of the game that is being released for players, not for us as the developers. The game will remain under development, and we may still wipe the game world as necessary, but we take much more seriously the things you build in this world. It’s now yours!

We’ve chosen to sell access to the game on Steam for $30 starting on May 29th. We still intend to make BitCraft free-to-play eventually, but the priced early access version both helps us to develop the game further and incentivizes Steam to show our game to more players.

This is the critical moment for our community and game. Wishlists indicate that players want to see BitCraft become everything we all dreamed it could be.

Wishlist the game on Steam! We’ve got some pretty exciting rewards for wishlisters (including seasons, weather, pets, and a single run item.

We can’t wait to see what you all build. We hope you enjoy our game.

— Tyler (3Blave, Cofounder of Clockwork Labs)