How to Play
Hylgard is free to play on s&box
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Get s&box
Hylgard runs on s&box, Facepunch's game platform. Buy and install s&box from Steam. Hylgard itself is free: there's nothing more to pay once you have s&box.
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Find Hylgard
Open Hylgard's page on sbox.game, or search for "Hylgard" in s&box, and press Play.
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Join a playtest
Hylgard is in development and opens for playtests. The playtest is closed right now: see the status page, and join our Discord to hear when the next one starts.
Join our Discord
s&box won't always be required. s&box can export games as standalone builds, a feature still in preview. Once it's open to us, we plan to release Hylgard as its own download, so you'll be able to play without s&box.
Your First Steps
Every new character starts on Tutorial Island. Its guides each teach a trade (brewing, cooking, fishing, woodcutting, mining and smithing) before the drillmaster puts you through combat training in the crypt below the island. Finish them all and the rift portal opens to the wider world.
Controls
| E | Use what you're looking at: talk, chop, mine, fish, craft, loot |
| 1 – 8 | Abilities on your action bar |
| R / T | Drink from your potion belt |
| I | Backpack |
| P | Character |
| K | Professions |
| J | Quest log |
| N | Stats & Abilities |
| M | World map |
| O | Settings |
| Enter | Chat |
| H | Show or hide the full controls list in game |
| Esc | Close the open window |