Back in June, Riot Games cancelled Hytale, a sandbox crafting game in the vein of Minecraft, and announced that developer Hypixel would be shuttered. But rather than ending the story of Hytale, that move ended up being just one more chapter in the game’s decade-long development cycle. Nearly five months after Hytale’s cancellation, Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme announced that he’d purchased the rights to the game, and soon revealed a first look in a 16-minute gameplay video.
"I promised players videos, screenshots and blog posts," Collins-Laflamme writes in the video’s YouTube description. "One day after the acquisition, I’m keeping that promise. Now that you’ve seen the first gameplay footage in a long time, I’m heading back to work on the early access launch.” You can see that footage below.
