HYTOPIA has released WORLDS, a new game it says revives the original NFT Worlds concept, as a public alpha playable in a browser at worldsalpha.com. The announcement went out on X early on Oct. 17. "In 2021 we started as NFT Worlds. Then we became HYTOPIA. It's time we go back to our roots," the team wrote. "This is WORLDS: the original NFT Worlds vision, built from the ground up by us. No Minecraft baggage."
The alpha site contains a single game canvas, with no landing page, roadmap or written explainer. On-screen controls follow the usual voxel pattern: WASD to move, Space to jump and Shift to run. A left click breaks blocks, while a right click places the selected block, opens doors or starts a conversation with an expedition guide character. No date was given for WORLDS to leave alpha, and HYTOPIA's post did not address how the game connects to the existing HYTOPIA platform, the TOPIA token or the HYTOPIA Worlds NFT collection.
NFT Worlds launched in October 2021 as a web3 project layered on Minecraft, with players accessing its worlds through the game's servers. That arrangement ended in July 2022 when Mojang banned blockchain integration in Minecraft. The team responded by building its own engine and platform, then rebranded as HYTOPIA. Delphi Digital put $3 million into HYTOPIA. The Worlds NFT collection consists of 10,000 worlds, and holders get the right to build playable experiences on the platform. The project later switched chains from Polygon to Arbitrum.
HYTOPIA has run a browser alpha before: its platform alpha opened in early 2025, announced in a blog update dated March 4, 2025. Players in that build could register, claim usernames, browse games, join regional servers and add friends, with many games supplied by a community game jam. At launch it had no marketplace, no locker system for in-game assets and no token integrations. HYTOPIA has since demonstrated AI tools that let creators build maps, add enemies and scoring, and publish a game to a browser URL within one session. The WORLDS post closed with a brief call to players: "The public alpha is playable in your browser now. See for yourself."