Jeff Kaplan's The Legend of California moves its early access to 2027
Kintsugiyama's Gold Rush survival shooter needs more server work, Kaplan says. The next alpha runs 12 to 18 Nov.
The Legend of California, the first-person Gold Rush survival game from Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan's studio Kintsugiyama, will now enter early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store in 2027, not 2026. Polygon and Multiplayer.it reported the change after a Reddit AMA by Kaplan and Tim Ford on 24 Oct PT.
Kaplan said in the AMA that the game was meant to be in early access by now, but Alpha 3 "had performance issues and didn't feel up to our standards for release". He said the team has server performance targets to hit but feels "good on the feature/content side of things", Polygon reports.
No exact date has been given as of 26 Oct. Kintsugiyama's site lists Alpha 5 on Steam from 12 to 18 Nov, and says players from earlier alphas get in automatically.
Sources: Polygon · Multiplayer.it · Kintsugiyama