Hytale Release Times and Details Confirmed, How to Download Launcher Ahead of Release Date

Hypixel's once-canceled Minecraft-like Hytale is astir here. Announced successful December 2018 with a trailer truthful breathtaking it's clocked up an unthinkable 62 cardinal views connected YouTube, Hytale was acquired by Riot Games successful 2020 and languished successful improvement hellhole for a spot earlier being canceled wholly successful June 2025. In November, however, it was sold backmost to 1 of the archetypal co-founders and revived, implicit with an aboriginal entree merchandise day connected PC: January 13.

Co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme expects the aboriginal entree crippled to garner significant interest, predicting "over 1 cardinal players connected the aboriginal entree merchandise day" and advising players download the launcher and log successful present to assistance "significantly trim launch-day stress."

Remember, Hytale isn't disposable connected Steam oregon the Epic Games store, truthful you'll request to popular implicit to the authoritative website to download the launcher from there, click download, and prime Download for Windows. You'll past person to instal the launcher to play.

Hytale aboriginal entree planetary merchandise times:

Depending connected wherever you are successful the world, Hytale is acceptable to spell unrecorded on:

Tuesday, January 13, 2026:

PST (San Francisco):

• 7am

CST (Austin, Mexico City):

• 9am

EST (New York):

• 10pm

GMT (London):

• 3pm

CET (Paris):

• 4pm

JST (Tokyo):

• 11pm

CST (Beijing):

• 11pm

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

AEST (Sydney):

• 2am

NZST (Wellington):

• 4am

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