Hytale surges to the most-watched game on Twitch, attracting over 420,000 viewers with its …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Riot It might have taken a decade of development, cancellation, and miraculous project revival, but Hytale, the Minecraft-esque voxel sandbox RPG, has finally launched in early access. As a metric for just how much hype Hytale has built up, its first announcement trailer has amassed an absurd 62 million views since it was uploaded in 2018. We are, eternally, yearning to play with blocks. For Hytale, that yearning seems to have paid off. After going live earlier today, Hytale is at time of writing the most watched game on Twitch by far, attracting over 420,000 viewers across thousands of streams. Credit: Twitch A cursory survey of those launch streams seems to indicate that many day one players are being brutally savaged by the bears roaming Hytale’s forests, which—if you’re wondering—matches the early experiences of PC Gamer staff. There’s a bear outside my starting hut as I write this. It’s not going well. But things do seem to be going well for Hytale. Yesterday, Hytale developer Hypixel announced that pre-purchases had already secured the next two years of early access development costs. And
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