Jeff Kaplan’s FPS playtest
Ex‑Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan’s new FPS‑action title, The Legend of California, is opening for public testing soon with sign‑ups live — Kaplan also said the game won’t be free‑to‑play, joking it would need “eight billion players” to work that way. (gamespot.com) (dexerto.com)
Kintsugiyama has scheduled a public alpha playtest to run March 26–30, 2026, with Steam participant selection expected to occur shortly before the test begins. (techpowerup.com, gamerrant.com (techpowerup.com)) The Legend of California is being developed by Jeff Kaplan’s new studio Kintsugiyama and is being published by Dreamhaven, with the team targeting an Early Access PC release in 2026. (gameriv.com, gamespot.com (gameriv.com)) Kaplan demonstrated the game’s multiplayer systems during an approximately 10‑hour livestream, during which he also answered community questions about design and monetization. (gamespot.com (gamespot.com)) Kintsugiyama has warned the initial playtest pool will be intentionally small and hardware reporting for the alpha lists an NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super among the minimum GPU requirements. (mmohuts.com, techpowerup.com (mmohuts.com)) The game is set on a mythical Gold Rush–era Island of California focused on exploration, resource extraction, hunting and building a ranch base, and Kaplan has explicitly sought to differentiate the title from Rust despite some surface comparisons in coverage. (gameriv.com, pcgamesn.com, massivelyop.com (gameriv.com))
