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PatchWorld
PatchWorld is a live audiovisual playground for making music together in VR and desktop. Play instruments, build custom systems, create reactive audiovisual worlds, and perform live with others in real time.

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Features
Single-player
Multi-player
Cross-Platform Multiplayer
Tracked Controller Support
VR Supported
In-App Purchases
Includes level editor
Family Sharing
Profile Features Limited 
Connects to 3rd-Party Service for AI Content Generation: Nanobanana
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔
Content
Includes Interactive Elements

In-game purchases, In-game chat, Online interactivity

Awards

IEEE "Best Performance Award"

AUREA Award " Creative Category Winner"

Auggie Award "Best XR start-up to watch"

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

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

FastCompany "Most innovative VR/AR companie"

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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About This Game

Make music together in VR and desktop.

PatchWorld is a multiplayer audiovisual playground where you can make music, build instruments and machines, create reactive visuals, and perform live with others in real time inside shared virtual worlds.

Step into a shared 3D space where sound becomes something you can see, grab, connect, patch, play, and transform. Jump into ready-made jam rooms, play an ever-growing library of instruments, explore community creations, attend live events, or build something entirely your own.

Whether you are a curious beginner, an electronic musician, a producer, a visual artist, a tinkerer, or an educator, PatchWorld gives you a new way to express yourself through music and bring your wildest ideas to life.

Hang out, jam, and explore

Play and create with others in real time. Explore worlds, jam rooms, musical adventures, and ready-made music studios for electronic music, reggae, techno, drum and bass, and more. Try new instruments and inventions made by the community. Attend live events, workshops, and performances. Share your creations and remix what others have built.

Build instruments and systems with your hands

Use PatchWorld’s modular block system to create musical instruments, synths, samplers, drum machines, sequencers, effects, and custom controllers.

Inspired by modular synthesis, Pure Data, Max/MSP, TouchDesigner, and node-based creative tools, PatchWorld brings the art of patching out of the flat screen and into 3D space.

Connect your setup - Go hybrid with mixte reality

Go further with MIDI, OSC, Ableton Link, spatial audio tools, recording workflows, external controllers, DAWs, and desktop / PCVR setups. From jamming in VR to performing on stage, PatchWorld can become part of your live creative setup.

PatchWorld is powered by our bespoke audio engine, developed over many years for high-quality real-time and spatial audio. It supports responsive instruments, synthesis, sampling, effects, procedural sound systems, spatial mixing, and immersive performance tools designed for serious sound.

Create reactive audiovisual systems

Turn sound into visuals, light, motion, and spatial effects. Use PatchWorld’s visual and interaction blocks to build VJ tools, reactive stages, generative visual systems, audiovisual performances, and TouchDesigner-like setups directly in 3D space.

Build interactive worlds and playful systems

Use physics, logic, interaction, and gameplay blocks to design full interactive experience, art installations, and even games.

Customize everything — even how you move and who you are

Import custom VRM avatars, create expressive costumes, and shape how you appear and move inside PatchWorld’s shared creative worlds.

Bring your own assets — or generate them in-world

Import your own sounds, images, videos, and 3D objects through the PatchWorld web portal, or generate new assets directly inside PatchWorld with AI-powered tools.



Now on Steam Early Access for PCVR and desktop

The Steam version brings PatchWorld to a more powerful PC-based setup, with support for both PCVR and desktop. PCVR is the main immersive creation experience for patching, building, performing, and interacting with each other naturally in 3D space.

Desktop is currently in beta but is already very useful for exploring worlds, filming, streaming and joining multiplayer sessions!

Already playing on Meta Quest? Keep your creative ecosystem connected!

You can log in with your existing PatchWorld account on Steam to access your Vibz, purchases, and creations. 

Join the community

PatchWorld is shaped by its passionate community of patchers: musicians, producers, builders, visual artists, educators, performers, curious beginners, and tinkerers of all ages and backgrounds.

Join Discord to ask questions, find collaborators, attend workshops, discover community creations, and jump into live jams where people help each other build strange, beautiful, musical things together.

We are especially proud of the community’s imaginative, supportive, and welcoming spirit. PatchWorld is LGBTQ+ friendly and open to creators of different identities, abilities, experience levels, and creative paths.

Patch sound into worlds

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 MB RAM
    • Graphics: RX570
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 1500 MB available space
    • VR Support: OpenXR (SteamVR / Oculus PC) on Meta Headsets
    • Additional Notes: Non-Oculus controller bindings are not yet integrated or officially supported.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: 10
    • Processor: Intel i9 10850K
    • Memory: 16 MB RAM
    • Graphics: GTX980
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 2000 MB available space
    • VR Support: OpenXR (SteamVR / Oculus PC) on Meta Headsets
    • Additional Notes: Non-Oculus controller bindings are not yet integrated or officially supported.
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