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Official statements · Checked 2026-10-28

Playtest history and rewards

Do not add 17,000, 25,000, and 40,000 together. They are three announcements about different tests. Rewards named by a developer are an Alpha cape from the royale period and a Beta cape from the MMO-lite tests.

Test and demo timeline

These are historical tests, not current sign-up windows. All dates below are from the studio news archive.

PeriodStageOfficial post
2026-01-09 to 01-11North America testhttps://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1821288646582110
2026-02-06 to 02-08Global royale playtesthttps://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1823825466500556
2026-03-09 to 03-12Duos playtesthttps://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1826362059930904
2026-04-16 to 04-23Royale betahttps://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1829528821306897
2026-08-14MMO-lite open beta beganhttps://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1840944183780495
2026-10-17 to launchDemo; progress carried into releasehttps://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/1846651706683673

Counts by announcement

Participation figures come from studio announcements at different stages. Each is a single-source cumulative statement; the groups may overlap. The public news archive supplies the dated test history.

DateFigureContext
2026-04-28Over 17,000 knights, 10,000+ roundsRoyale tests
2026-06-03Over 25,000Royale playtests; single studio source
2026-08-14Open beta liveAbout 1 hour, then a wipe
2026-10-15Nearly 40,000Later playtest, before the demo

Rewards

Developer coty, in the rewards thread: an Alpha cape from the battle-royale period and a Beta cape from the MMO-lite tests. The April 9 note also mentioned a cape and a title for an April 16–23 beta. Cosmetic stats are not published.

Knights facing Daze Bandits on sand near clay pots
Official Steam screenshot © Funktronic Labs. Daze Bandits and the Royal Artifact quest.
Town Square with a quest maiden, crafting table, and upgrade station
Official Steam screenshot © Funktronic Labs. Town Square services around the fountain.

What I checked

The three population lines were the easiest mistake on the site. I dated each one and left the sum uncalculated. The cape answer is developer coty on Steam, which is enough to name the items and not enough to describe their stats.

Questions

Did everyone who playtested get a cape?

The August open-beta announcement promised a Beta Cape to participants. A developer later distinguished Alpha capes from the battle-royale period and Beta capes from MMO-lite tests. These are single-source eligibility statements, not account-level reward checks.

Was the beta progress wiped?

The open-beta announcement said the beta would wipe. Demo progress, later, was said to carry into launch. Those are different tests.

Sources

Official identifies the publisher, not independent corroboration. Unless a specific claim cites two independent sources, each attributed figure or report is a single-source observation. Different pages from one publisher are one source.

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