Springloaded has confirmed the release date for Let’s Build a Dungeon, the game development simulator that puts players in charge of their own studio and asks them to ship an MMORPG of their own design. The studio revealed at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct that the game enters Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview for PC on February 11, 2027.
The announcement lands with the game past 195,000 wishlists, and with a demo already playable on Steam and the Windows Store in more than 10 languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
In Campaign Mode, players work as both game designer and CEO. That means hiring and firing staff, designing quests, balancing loot drops, and marketing the finished product to virtual customers. The fiction mirrors a real production cycle: build your MMO, push it into “GameLink Early Access” – a parody of the Early Access programmes players already know – then keep expanding it as the game itself grows.
What ships in the Let’s Build a Dungeon Early Access build
The Early Access launch comes with four game modes and a content library of thousands of hand-drawn assets:
Campaign Mode – a multi-layered simulation that combines studio management, RPG creation, and hands-on playtesting.
Just Build Mode – a lower-pressure world-building mode built on a deck-building progression system.
Creative Mode – an open sandbox packed with accessible game-making tools.
Dungeoneering Mode – curated experiences from Springloaded, other developers, and the game’s community.
There is also Twitch integration, which lets streamers invite chat into the game as virtual players and let them vote on key studio decisions.
“By allowing players to mimic the real-life development cycle of Let’s Build a Dungeon within the game, we’re making good on our commitment to show players what game development is really like,” said Game Director James Barnard.
“In the exact same way that our players need to adapt to the feedback of their virtual players to succeed in Campaign Mode, we know that we need to do the same and take as much valuable feedback as we can from our community during Early Access,” he added.
From the team behind Let’s Build a Zoo
Springloaded is an award-winning independent studio based in Singapore, founded in 2012 by games industry veteran James Barnard. It previously made the management sim Let’s Build a Zoo, and is currently developing RollerCoaster Tycoon Wonderworks with Atari. Let’s Build a Dungeon is self-published and arrives on PC and Xbox in partnership with Kowloon Nights; it is available to wishlist now on Steam.
The trailer screened in Tokyo follows a fake game being made inside Campaign Mode, and the studio has leaned into that parallel ahead of early access. The reveal also landed in a busy week for Tokyo games news, with Tokyo Game Show 2026 running through September 21. For players in the Philippines, the free Steam demo is the simplest way to test the loop now, months before Let’s Build a Dungeon opens its doors in February 2027.
Giancarlo Viterbo
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