Why Early Access?

“MYTHHUNT's core experience is built around preparing at the lodge, exploring the forest, hunting wildlife and cryptids, and extracting with what you recover. We want players to help shape how those systems work together while development continues. Early Access gives us a way to learn from real expeditions: where tension builds, which equipment choices matter, how progression feels, and where cooperative play needs improvement.

Our approach is to develop from a playable foundation, evaluate feedback alongside testing, and explain changes clearly. The current game should be the reason to participate. Planned improvements are intentions, and their scope may change as we learn; they are not guarantees of a particular update or final release date. ”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Our target is for MYTHHUNT to be in Early Access for 3-4 years. This target was estimated with our current rate of progress, estimated budget, and team size. We hope going into Early Access may accelerate the timeline through financial support.”

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

“Our proposed direction is to deepen and refine the existing hunt experience: improve cryptid encounters and wildlife behavior, tune the balance between preparation, scavenging, combat and extraction, and strengthen weapon customization, crafting and progression. We also intend to work on performance, reliability, interface clarity and cooperative play.

The scope of additional content has not been finalized. Community feedback and testing will help determine priorities, and plans may change. We are not promising a particular number of new maps, creatures, weapons or game modes, or a fixed delivery schedule. ”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The current development build contains a playable solo hunt loop and cooperative sessions configured for up to four hunters. It includes a lodge and an open forest, first-person firearms, compatible weapon attachments, supply-crate looting, wildlife hunting and harvesting, cooking, crafting, health, hunger and thirst, day/night lighting, trading, personal lodge storage and persistent loadouts.

There are four cryptid types—Sasquatch, Werewolf, Werebear and Wendigo—with pursuit, attacks, retreats and trophy loot. The host’s current quest target can retain remaining health between hunts. Returning its trophy through extraction advances the host’s hunt progression. Surviving cooperative hunters gather at the same extraction zone to return together. A fallen hunter retains the equipment brought into the hunt but loses that hunt’s finds.

The game remains unfinished. Encounter tuning, balance, performance, presentation and multiplayer reliability need further testing. Existing internal solo and two-player cooperative checks have passed; a real two-account Steam invite/P2P session remains to be verified. This describes the development build being prepared for Early Access, not a game that is already available to buy. ”

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

“We currently plan to gradually increase the price of MYTHHUNT as we add substantial new content, features, cryptids, questlines, locations, weapons, and overall polish throughout Early Access. The exact timing and size of any price increases have not yet been finalized and will depend on the scope of future updates. We expect the full release price to reflect the larger amount of content available at that time. We will communicate any planned price changes to the community in advance.”

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

“Our proposed feedback channel is the Steam Community discussions, with an emphasis on bug reports and players’ experiences of the hunt loop. Useful feedback includes the circumstances of a creature encounter, equipment used, extraction outcomes, confusing interface behavior, cooperative connection issues and performance on a stated hardware configuration.

We plan to compare reports with reproducible tests and look for recurring problems and patterns. Player feedback would inform priorities, rather than act as a promise that every suggestion will be implemented. We also propose using Steam announcements to explain meaningful updates and changes to plans. Specific response times, update frequency and any additional community channels have not been confirmed. ”