Hytale has been canceled by Riot Games and Hypixel Studios a decade after the project first started development.
Hypixel Studios‘ co-founder Aaron Donaghey, better known by the Hytale community as Noxy, broke the news in a post on Hytale’s website. „Today, I shared some incredibly tough news with the Hypixel Studios team: we’re ending development on Hytale and beginning the process of winding down Hypixel Studios over the next few months,“ Noxy wrote. „This is not the outcome any of us – at Hypixel or at Riot – wanted. But after years of pushing forward, adapting, and exploring every possible path, it became clear we couldn’t bring Hytale to life in a way that truly delivered on its promise.“
Hytale is a standalone game project that sprouted from Hypixel, the popular Minecraft server from which Hytale’s development team gets its name. It was planned to be a Minecraft-like sandbox game that was more modder-friendly, incorporated more RPG elements, and featured numerous minigames for players to try out alongside the basic sandbox experience. To better understand the project’s ambitions, you should watch this developer diary that Riot Games released in 2021.