Hytale Finally Stops Apologizing for Being a Block Game

Look, I'll be blunt — when Hypixel Studios first showed Hytale off, my reaction was "oh great, another Minecraft clone." And I wasn't alone. Even Jeb, the chief creative officer of Minecraft himself, basically said the same thing on Bluesky. "I'd like it to be more different to Minecraft," he wrote. "It's very polished, but the feeling I get when I play is that I'd rather just play Minecraft." Ouch. But here's the thing — Hypixel listened. They didn't just nod politely and keep shipping the same