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

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