Grove Street Games reveals BeastLink

Grove Street Games just showed its hand — and it’s not another port. BeastLink is a new original multiplayer kaiju game, revealed on May 5 for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, with Steam Early Access planned for this summer and a closed PC beta starting May 8. The pitch is simple and loud: giant monsters, human squads, vehicles, cities, and a whole lot of destruction. That matters because Grove Street is a studio most people know for support work and controversial remasters, not for launching a big cross-platform original game. (gematsu.com) ### What is BeastLink? BeastLink is a multiplayer action game built around kaiju fights in urban sandbox maps. The Steam page calls it a “giant multiplayer Kaiju experience” where humans, vehicles, and colossal Beasts crash into each other at huge scale, and where basically everything visible can be destroyed. The setup also ha(gematsu.com)suggests some kind of human-beast bond or progression system sits underneath the chaos. (store.steampowered.com) ### What actually got announced? The concrete news is the platform and rollout plan. Grove Street said BeastLink is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam. The PC version enters Early Access this summer, and the first closed beta weekend starts May 8, 2026, with sign-ups live through Steam. So this wasn’t just a teaser trailer — it came with a near-term t(store.steampowered.com) while the game is still taking shape. (gematsu.com) ### Why lean on Early Access? Because this kind of game is messy in exactly the hard ways. Multiplayer plus large-scale destruction plus giant creatures plus vehicles is a technical headache. Early Access gives Grove Street room to stress-test servers, balance the human-versus-beast loop, and figure out whether the destruction (gematsu.com), but the systems still need live feedback. That reads like the plan here. (store.steampowered.com) ### Why is Grove Street making headlines for this? Because the studio’s reputation comes from a very different kind of work. Grove Street has spent years attached to ports, remasters, and support projects, including work tied to ARK and the much-criticized Grand Theft Auto trilogy remasters. BeastLink is a cleaner statement of intent: not “we helped ship someone else’s t(store.steampowered.com)es change the conversation around what the studio is trying to be. (msn.com) ### What seems to be the game’s angle? The obvious comparison is Rampage — giant monsters wrecking cities — but BeastLink seems broader than that. You’re not just controlling a beast in a toybox. The reveal materials point to humans fighting back, vehicles in play, multiplayer roles on both sid(msn.com)le could make the game much stickier if the classes and objectives land. (ign.com) ### What’s the catch? The catch is execution. “Fully destructible” is one of those phrases that sounds amazing in a trailer and gets much harder once players pile in online. Destruction has to be readable, performant, and actually useful to gameplay. If buildings crumble but matches feel random, the novelty burns off fast. And because Grove Street is trying(ign.com)bility and feel, not just on ambition. (store.steampowered.com) ### So what should people watch next? May 8 is the first real checkpoint. Closed beta footage should answer the basic questions fast — how many players are in a match, how the human and beast sides differ, how deep the “Link” system goes, and whether the destruction holds up under real play. The summer Early Access launch matters too, but the beta is where BeastLink stops being a cool trailer and starts proving it can survive contact with players. (in.ign.com) ### Bottom line BeastLink is Grove Street Games trying to graduate from hired-gun studio to original multiplayer developer. The idea is easy to understand — giant monsters wreck cities while humans fight back — but the real story is whether the studio can make that chaos coherent. The beta starts in three days. That’s when this stops being a reveal and becomes a test. (gematsu.com)