Today marks the 6th anniversary of Craftopia, and everyone at Pocketpair would like to say a huge thank you to all of the players who have supported the game over the years.
Craftopia holds an incredibly important place in Pocketpair's history. It is no exaggeration to say that without Craftopia, Pocketpair as it exists today, and even Palworld, simply would not exist.
For the past several years, the Craftopia development team has continued working on updates, fixes, and improvements to the game. Today, on its sixth anniversary, we're finally ready to share an important milestone:
Craftopia will leave Early Access and release into Version 1.0 in 2027.
Craftopia began as a project made by a small group of friends who wanted to create their dream game.
At the time, Pocketpair itself was still a very small company. A lot has changed since then. The studio has grown considerably, we have released new games, and our day-to-day development environment looks very different from when Craftopia first entered development.
One thing that hasn't changed, however, is how much Craftopia means to the team.
We love Craftopia. Although Pocketpair has since grown into a company working on multiple projects, we must never forget where we started: as a small group of friends who simply wanted to make fun games.
Craftopia was born from that spirit, and we’d like to believe that the culture formed during its development helped shape Pocketpair into the company it is today.
We also understand that our communication surrounding the game has not always been good enough. In particular, since the release of Palworld, some Craftopia players have understandably felt that the game was receiving less attention.
We sincerely apologise for giving that impression.
Behind the scenes, the Craftopia team has continued working tirelessly on the game. In fact, the growth and success Pocketpair has experienced in recent years has allowed us to dedicate more resources toward Craftopia and tackle a number of longstanding technical issues that had previously been extremely difficult to resolve.
We are enormously grateful to everyone who continued supporting the game throughout that process.
Craftopia has changed dramatically over the course of Early Access.
The game has added a huge amount of content over the years, and as we approach Version 1.0, our priority is not simply adding as much new content as possible.
Instead, much of our focus is on cleaning up and refining the existing experience, addressing outstanding issues, and making Craftopia as enjoyable and polished as possible for its full release.
That means the 1.0 update may not be as focused on sheer content volume as some players might expect. However, there will still be new content arriving alongside Version 1.0, and we'll have more details to share about that in the future.
We also have an important update for our Xbox players.
Craftopia Version 1.0 will release on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC alongside the Steam version in 2027.
We know that the Xbox community has faced a particularly difficult experience with Craftopia, and we deeply regret the problems players have encountered.
Many of those issues came down to our own lack of experience at the time. Over the past several years, we have invested significant development time and resources into resolving the technical problems surrounding the Xbox version.
We're very happy to say that we have now made the breakthroughs necessary to bring Craftopia 1.0 to Xbox Series X|S.
Unfortunately, we have not been able to achieve an acceptable level of performance and stability on Xbox One.
As a result, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue development of Craftopia for Xbox One, and Version 1.0 will not be released on that platform.
This was not a decision we made lightly. We know that this will be disappointing for Xbox One players who have supported Craftopia, and we sincerely regret that we were unable to deliver the experience we wanted to on the hardware.
Craftopia 1.0 has been many years in the making.
These past six years have changed Pocketpair enormously, and none of that would have been possible without the people who played Craftopia, sent us feedback, reported bugs, created videos and guides, shared the game with friends, and continued supporting us throughout its development.
Craftopia will always be an important part of Pocketpair and a game that is very dear to us.
There is still work to do before Version 1.0 arrives, and we'll be sharing much more about the update as we get closer to release.
For now, thank you for six incredible years of Craftopia.
We hope you'll join us for the conclusion of its Early Access journey when Craftopia Version 1.0 launches in 2027.