Hytale

A role-playing adventure sandbox in an open, procedurally generated world, with a first-person view, taking the best from Minecraft and Terraria and presenting it in a more advanced form. The developers' innovation is the abundance of action elements. The game features single-player and multiplayer modes. You will embark on an exciting journey full of unforgettable adventures and creativity.

The game combines an interesting sandbox with a well-developed role-playing system that will immerse you in a procedural world where fairy-tale towers and deep dungeons promise rich rewards to all treasure seekers. Designed for creativity, the game will offer a lot of entertainment — from building castles to creating scenarios, as well as further customization using simple yet powerful tools.

Development of Hytale began in 2015. The Hypixel studio promises to release the game in 2020 for PC, Mac, and consoles, and later on more devices, including Linux. The exact release date will be announced during 2019. Currently, the studio is planning beta testing, which can be signed up for on the project’s website.

The events of Hytale unfold in the fantasy world of Orbis, frozen in the Middle Ages, where, besides technology, there is magic of 6 elements (fire, water, earth, air, electricity, and void). Basic technologies are primitive, but over time, modern ones can be unlocked, such as cinemas and film shooting.

The main concept of the "world through blocks" has not changed, but a special engine has been developed for Hytale, allowing for many more blocks in the same volume, higher quality graphics and object models, and significantly improved animations. There will also be more types and kinds of blocks.

The game world is divided into zones (forest, sandy, cold, hot, and so on), and each zone has a set of specific biomes. For example, if rivers flow in the forest zone, then in the fire zone, they flow with lava. At the same time, if you go deep underground, you can reach lava and rare resources in the forest zone, while in the fire zone, you can explore vast underground lakes, jungles, and hideouts with complex bosses.

Notably, the game world does not end when the character reaches the sea or ocean. In Hytale, you can explore underwater areas, find sunken ruins, and new underground passages. These areas are separate biomes, with their own appearance and procedural generation mechanism, taking into account that the action takes place underwater.

According to the legends of several races of the planet Orbis, the world was created by the goddess Gaia, who gave light, soil, and nature to the lifeless stone. Gaia possessed magic of all kinds except for the void, but unexpectedly disappeared long ago.

Hypixel promises a well-thought-out plot, of which little is known so far. The antagonist was not presented in the published concept art, so we can only assume that he did something bad to Gaia and threatens to conquer the world, filling it with his "void" spawn and destroying temples dedicated to Gaia.

The confrontation with him will be the main plot of the hero or heroes.

It is known that there are several races on the planet Orbis; at the time of the announcement, the developers showed humans, intelligent trees, and trorks — a kind of ogres. Before starting the game, you will need to create your character and distribute basic characteristics, as Hytale has an RPG component.

As is usual for role-playing games, as you progress and complete activities, the character gains experience. This is transformed into levels, which provide attribute points and new abilities. In addition to the main story, there will be warring factions and structures in the game world that you can join or ignore.

Factions will have their own living territories, and invading them without permission and harvesting resources there can lead to conflict.

Almost all objects in the game have their quality and wear indicators, like in Diablo. This means that weapons or armor can be common, rare, epic, or legendary, and they will require maintenance. Finding or creating higher-quality weapons can yield interesting effects, such as reflecting damage taken.

The developers of Hytale promise an incredible number of game activities, each supported by numerous game mechanics that make the gameplay less monotonous than in Minecraft or Terraria.

Let's list those that were announced during the announcement:

Hytale will be more logical and structured than Minecraft, but all NPCs, the position of factions and buildings, as well as resources, are determined by the map generation rules. The developers aim to create a comprehensive game where crafting, role-playing, storyline, and sandbox activities will harmoniously combine.

A new feature of the genre will be action elements and simple resource modding directly from the game.

In the first case, this involves creating dynamic game arenas from arenas to complex dungeons, each with its own victory conditions — defeat the boss, complete the level in the shortest time, score the maximum points, or play soccer. With enough effort, you could create your version of "Star Wars."

As for modding, the developers will allow players to implement new ideas in just a few clicks at various levels — from models and quests, camera and physics control, to generation rules and even creating and editing existing scripts. Players are allowed to come up with mini-games based on the previous point.

The game will feature multiplayer, implemented through private and public servers. It is still unknown what features Hytale will offer to keep players engaged in online gameplay for a long time — but all the modes mentioned above can confidently be considered in favor of cooperative play and PvP competitions.