The playtest opens Friday 30 October

The Lowbar Legends playtest opens this Friday. It's later than we first said, and the game is a lot better for it.

Friday 30 October, 12:00 UTC → Monday 2 November, 17:00 UTC Opens 13:00 CET · 12:00 UK · 08:00 EDT · 05:00 PDT

How to get in

Click Request Access on this store page. If you already signed up, you don't need to do anything: Steam emails you when it's your turn and the playtest shows up in your library. We let people in in batches on Friday so we can watch how the game holds up as more of you join.

What you can do

• Train 14 skills from a small card above your taskbar while you work. It shows every action and what you've earned.
• Hover any item to see what it does and exactly what you need to use it.
• Join a clan: chat, a weekly raid, and projects you build together.
• Fight bosses, weave Mastery capes and race to 120 on the boards.
• Skin your axe, dye your name, and send items to your Steam inventory.

What we need from you

• Leave it running. That's the whole game and the whole test: the more people online at the same time, the more we learn.
• Close it overnight and come back. Tell us if the "while you were away" numbers look wrong.
• Join a clan. Chat, give items to the weekly raid, build something together.
• Tell us what's boring, not just what breaks.
• Report bugs from the ? menu in the game window: "Report a bug or send feedback". One sentence is enough; your version and a short log go with it.

You keep one thing

Everyone who plays gets the Early Legend tag next to their name, in chat, in your clan and on the boards. It survives the wipe, and it can't be earned once the playtest ends.

Good to know

• It's a playtest: expect a restart or two, and maybe a rough first hour.
• Everything is wiped when it ends (levels, items, clans). Your Early Legend tag stays.
• The Caravan works, but playtest items can't be traded or sold on the Steam Market and don't carry over to the full game.
• The Premium Charter can't be bought during the playtest, so everyone gets its perks free until the end.
• Windows only.

Questions, ideas, things that aren't quite bugs: Discord or the Steam discussions. We read both.

See you on the taskbar.