Minecraft Hytale closes after a decade of development

Hypixel Studios closes the development of Hytale, Minecraft Creator Sandbox game. The studio, a subsidiary of Riot Games, published a blog publication that shows that financial support was not enough for the long development time cavity. the game It will not be released to the public.

Hypixel Studios have long struggled by achieving Hytale’s initial vision, and Riot Games has not been able to change the fact that the game had troubled production.

A Blog post from Hypixel Studios He explains that the development team was unable to keep up with the boarding bar of contemporary sandy games.

“Over time, with the development of our vision and the maturity of this type of around us, the tape remains rising,” the post reads. “Our artistic ambitions have grown more complicated, and even after a great restart of the game engine, the team found that Hytale was still as much as required.”

The Hypixel Studios team was formed in 2016, as its name was taken from the famous Minecraft Mod and Server. The initial investment of Riot Games helped the team to expand its ambition to make the amendment to the development of full games.

Riot Games bought the independent studio in 2020, which increased the investments of Juggernaut games in the completion of the Hytale development course.

Hypixel spoke about the difficulties of development in its publication, announcing the closure of development on Hytale. It is not clear what Riot played, if any, to stop the work in the game, but the Hypixel Studios blog post that RIOT games helped the developer search for other investors before choosing to finish the Hytale development at the end.

“When we start calm things, (RIOT) guarantee our team’s support and generous resources to help them find the next,” says the post. “He is not only thoughtful – he is a human being. He shows a real effort to care for people behind work.”

The Minecraft Hypixel server is currently working completely independently of Hypixel Studios, and will not be affected by the closure of the studio.

The latest layoffs in the game industry continue in a bad direction, as the past few years have been widespread with job instability. It lost more than 10,500 jobs in the game industry in 2023, with An additional 14600 She disappeared in 2024. Workers’ demobilization operations in Hypixel studios continued and elsewhere, where Microsoft is rumored to prepare for great demobilization next week, according to freedom.

Representatives of riots and Hypixel studios immediately did not respond to comment.