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

Hypixel's once-canceled Minecraft-like Hytale is nearly here. Announced in December 2018 with a trailer so exciting it's clocked up an incredible 62 million views on YouTube, Hytale was acquired by Riot Games in 2020 and languished in development hell for a bit before being canceled completely in June 2025. In November, however, it was sold back to one of the original co-founders and revived, complete with an early access release date on PC: January 13. Co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme expects the early access game to garner significant interest, predicting "over one million players on the early access release day" and advising players download the launcher and log in now to help "significantly reduce launch-day stress." Remember, Hytale isn't available on Steam or the Epic Games store, so you'll need to pop over to the official website to download the launcher from there, click download, and select Download for Windows. You'll then have to install the launcher to play. Hytale early access global release times: Depending on where you are in the world, Hytale is set to go live 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