Hytale

Xevy · 2026-01-13T16:17:17-0500

Guess lead Dev said on his admin panel an hour ago they hit 2.8 million players ONLINE.

ronne · 2026-01-13T17:03:51-0500

Xevy said:
Minecraft really is a big "you don't know about the current gaming sphere" type phenomenon for most people over 40. If you took the "biggest" games most people think of, at their boom peak, the top 4 probably don't beat minecraft on a random Thursday in 2019.

It's a scale that's sometimes even hard to really grok. And it seems to be sticking around through the generations and every child grows up playing it so I don't really see it going anywhere.

If Hytale can grab even 1% of that base they'll be rich.

Goatface · 2026-01-13T17:06:20-0500

ronne said:
Minecraft is closing in on 400 MILLION lifetime sales.

This game is basically Minecraft 2, made by the largest player in the existing Minecraft hosting/custom/mod space and has been floating around in development for like 10 years now.

The available pool of players for this game is in another universe relative to most PC games.

minecraft sales don't include the education edition users, there are something like 35 million active accounts.

Tarrant · 2026-01-13T18:44:53-0500

So, this game is very pretty (for a block game), and combat is much smoother than i had even hoped for... even early on. I wish i had more time to play it tonight, I'm having a good time in it.