Citadel: Forged With Fire launches early access today

Those of you who hate long waits and excessive transparency during those waits are getting your wish today, as Citadel: Forged With Fire lumbers into early access on Steam today after surprisingly little preamble. The game will go on sale at noon EDT. Early access is expected to last up to a year, with a formal launch in 2018 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Should you buy it? Well, it’s early access, and by all accounts it deserves that designation. MMO players should note that while it’s been dubbed a “massive online sandbox RPG,” the servers aren’t currently massive at all. On the other hand? Magic, dragons, and a kickass construction system.

Blue Isle Studios says that the launch patch will contain some big changes; the devs have made structures harder to raid, rebalanced XP from building to stop an exploit, removed chest icons from the map, revamped VOIP, fixed tamed critters, nerfed dragon damage and mana regen, tweaked housing, and solved a number of outstanding bugs.

We took a look at the game in person last week while chatting with the studio’s community manager; that’s down below, along with a roundup of our coverage so far!

Citadel Forged With Fire’s last weekend beta was a bit rough - If you jumped into Citadel: Forged With Fire's stress-test-style of beta this past weekend, you may have gotten a heaping helping of just what to expect when the early access…

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You will believe that a player can fly in Citadel - If you're populating an online fantasy game with nothing but adeptly magical players, then it's not a big jump to accepting that all sorts of seemingly impossible feats will become…

Citadel: Forged With Fire patches up, plans weekend beta excursion - Citadel: Forged With Fire has been a whirlwind of activity since its sudden early access announcement last week, and it's not letting up, as now it's plotting what looks to…

Here’s how magic in Citadel: Forged With Fire will work - This morning, we wrote about a new "massive online sandbox RPG," Citadel: Forged With Fire, built by Slender devhouse Blue Isle Studios and expected to hit early access later this month.…

Citadel: Forged With Fire is a brand-new ‘massive online sandbox RPG’ debuting this month - Well well, lookie what popped up on Steam: It's a new "massive online sandbox RPG," Citadel: Forged With Fire, and it came out of nowhere this week to announce an…