Craftopia Heading To PC Via Steam Early Access In July

Japan-based developer Pocket Pair has just announced their wildly ambitious title Craftopia via Twitter. Craftopia is the developer’s take on what you get from a game that can offer you anything at all. The open-world, open-ended, multiplayer role-playing game is set to release via Steam Early Access in July 2020.

The game’s description starts off with four questions: “What if you were thrown into the open-world full of resources and lives? What if you would live on the planet where you are the one who began civilizations? What if you could do anything you’ve ever dreamed of? What if you could get to know those places?” Well, apparently for Pocket Pair, all the answers to those questions will be Craftopia: a game with so much breadth, labeling it with a genre would require a paragraph. The game offers role-playing mechanics such as creating your own skill trees and leveling up skills related to arts, magic, exploration and more. Farming will also play a huge role in Craftopia as it looks like it will be the player's main source of currency.

Once they have experienced most of the grind, players can also begin building and crafting robots for automation, leaving players more time for exploring, dungeon crawling, looting, enchanting, and even other game mechanics such as a “Battle Royale” mode. How Pocket Pair will implement that is a huge question, though. Multiplayer is also a confirmed feature, with players able to build a server and invite friends to play on their own vast maps.

Currently, the game will soon enter a Closed Alpha by June 12 and we will have to wait for initial impressions from its participants before we can even begin to judge the title itself. However, from what we’ve seen so far, the game bears a striking similarity (graphics wise) to Breath of the Wild, another open-world role-playing game, but with an iconic character attached to it. Other comparisons from online interactions with the game developers’ tweets compare it to Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, and other open-ended titles. It’s exciting to see whether this title’s ambition to do too much at one time will be its downfall or saving grace.