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Unleash your imagination in PatchWorld, where music, art and creativity come to life. Through logic, physics and intuitive building blocks, create, share and discover worlds upon worlds. Bring your ideas to life or remix the community’s, on your own or with friends.

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Features
Single-player
Online PvP
Online Co-op
Cross-Platform Multiplayer
Tracked Controller Support
VR Supported
In-App Purchases
Includes level editor
Family Sharing
Steam is learning about this game 
Connects to 3rd-Party Service for AI Content Generation: Nanobanana
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔
Awards

FastCompany "Most innovative VR/AR companie"

AUREA Award " Creative Category Winner"

Auggie Award "Best XR start-up to watch"

IEEE "Best Performance Award"

Abbey Road "Best music-tech start-up to watch"

Music:ally "Most promising Music-tech start-up"

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

Leaving Early Access: 2027

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“PatchWorld is launching on Steam in Early Access because it is an ambitious creative platform with many interconnected systems: music creation, multiplayer sessions, custom instrument building, audiovisual world-building, desktop support, mixed reality workflows, and external integrations.

The core creative experience is already available: you can make music, build playable instruments, explore audiovisual worlds, and create together in real time. But we are still improving onboarding, tutorials, documentation, UI/UX polish, multiplayer stability, and creator workflows.

Early Access lets us develop PatchWorld with the people who will actually use it: musicians, performers, VR creators, educators, visual artists, and experimental tool-builders.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We expect PatchWorld to remain in Early Access for at least 12 months.

This gives us time to refine the platform, improve onboarding and documentation, polish the UI/UX, strengthen multiplayer reliability, and make creator workflows clearer for building instruments, making music, performing audiovisual worlds, and working across VR and desktop.

This timeframe is an estimate, not a fixed release date. We plan to update the community as development progresses and as priorities are shaped by user feedback.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The full version of PatchWorld is planned to be more performant, better documented, and easier to learn. Our focus during Early Access is to improve the first-time user experience, expand tutorials, polish the interface, strengthen multiplayer reliability, clarify recording and export workflows, and make it easier for creators to build, share, and perform with their own instruments and worlds.

We also plan to keep improving desktop and PC VR workflows, external music integrations such as MIDI, OSC, and Ableton Link, and the systems that let creators connect PatchWorld to live performance, studio setups, installations, and education.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“PatchWorld is already playable and creatively powerful. Players can create music in VR and desktop, build custom instruments from modular blocks, perform inside audiovisual worlds, collaborate with others, and connect PatchWorld to external tools and workflows.

At the same time, this is still Early Access. Some areas are rough, including onboarding, documentation, UI/UX polish, multiplayer stability, and advanced creator workflows. Players should expect a living creative tool that is actively being improved rather than a fully finished production suite.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Yes, the price may increase as PatchWorld becomes more complete.

Our Early Access price reflects the current state of the product: a deep and ambitious creative platform that is already usable, but still improving in onboarding, documentation, polish, stability, and creator workflows. As those areas improve and PatchWorld moves closer to a full release, we expect the price to rise.

Early Access buyers get PatchWorld at a lower price and help shape the next stage of development.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We are building PatchWorld with feedback from musicians, VR creators, educators, performers, visual artists, and experimental tool-makers.

During Early Access, community feedback will help us prioritize tutorials, creator workflows, multiplayer improvements, instrument-building features, performance tools, accessibility needs, and integrations with external music software and hardware.

PatchWorld is especially shaped by people using it to make real things: songs, instruments, performances, interactive worlds, workshops, installations, and collaborative sessions.”
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Planned Release Date: 2026

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Reviews

“PatchWorld blends music, visual art, and interactive design where you can create, share, and remix with the community.”
N/A – Gamelist+

“Patchworld is a virtual, collaborative, immersive sandbox and playground where you can create virtual spaces, instruments, drum machines, functional props, shooting galleries, airplanes, and even roller coasters.”
5/5 – Flynn.in.VR, Meta Quest Store user review

“Patchworld is a studio with homemade instruments, a social meeting place, a world builder, and a discovery platform. All this in VR.”
N/A – MIXED

About This Game

Build, Explore, Connect, Remix & Play Together

Technology and creativity come alive in PatchWorld, an immersive sandbox where you can build a simple toy or a fully interactive virtual world filled with music, art and live performances. 

Supporting both VR and desktop, PatchWorld was originally built around musical expression, allowing you to not only create beats but also the musical instruments to make them. Taking inspiration from modular synthesisers, ‘Patching’ is the art of connecting modular blocks to make new machines, new sounds and new ideas. Jam with the pre-built synths, drum machines, samplers and sequencers or make your own. Your imagination is limitless and so is PatchWorld’s connectivity.

Beyond Music

For true artistic freedom, you can build almost anything you want. From remote-controlled toys and interactive art pieces to live performances with dedicated light shows and live performers, PatchWorld is a living, breathing spatial environment designed to be as simple or as complex as creators need it to be. 

Import your own assets to use in your world, or utilise PatchWorld’s in-built generative AI tools to create your own content.   

Community

Music and art are nothing without people to share it with, and PatchWorld thrives on community. Create worlds solo or with friends, host events and stream them live online, there’s nothing quite like building and remixing with like-minded creators. You never know what each new experiment will evolve into.

Key Features:

  • Spatial Patching & Visual Programming - Use more than 200 modular blocks to build logic, visuals, physics, sound, interaction and world behaviour.

  • Multiplayer Co-Creation - Build together, play together, perform together; community is the heart of PatchWorld.

  • PC VR & Desktop Mode - Use PatchWorld inside or outside of VR. Desktop Mode enables you to stream, record, and join sessions right from your monitor.

  • PatchSound - Custom real-time spatial audio engine for immersive and interactive creation, instrument building, sound design and live performance.

  • Library of Devices - Toys, weapons, tools, vehicles, over 500 and growing. 

  • Live Events - Host or join a continually revolving selection of jams, workshops, build-alongs, and festivals featuring live performances, visuals, cameras, lighting, and interactive zones. 

  • Media Connectivity - WebBridge, bidirectional MIDI, OSC, Ableton Link and more.

  • AI Creativity Layer - Generate content in-world with optional AI tools. 

  • Perpetual Free Demo - Features PatchWorld’s core functionality with access to all public/community worlds and all free content, joining public multiplayer sessions, events, jams and workshops; creating and publishing one world, use of a curated Starter Creator toolkit and more!


AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

PatchWorld includes optional generative AI tools that players can use to create custom content for their worlds and devices.

Players can generate images, 360° skyboxes, 3D meshes, and audio samples by entering text prompts using in-game tools such as the GenieBox device or scripting blocks. Each generation is initiated directly by the player and takes a short amount of time to complete.

Generated content can be used to decorate worlds, create sound effects, and build custom musical instruments. By default, all generated content remains private to the creator and is only shared with others if the player chooses to publish their world.

Generative AI features are entirely optional and are designed to support creativity, experimentation, and collaborative world-building.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: 10
    • Processor: Intel i7 3770
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: RX570
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 1500 MB available space
    • VR Support: OpenXR (SteamVR / Oculus PC) on Meta/PSVR/Valve Index VR Headsets
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: 10
    • Processor: Intel i9 10850K
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: GTX980
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 2000 MB available space
    • VR Support: OpenXR (SteamVR / Oculus PC) on Meta/PSVR/Valve Index VR Headsets
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