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Jeff Kaplan Unveils The Legend of California, a Gold Rush Survival Shooter From New Studio Kintsugiyama

A public alpha is targeting March with access requests now open on Steam.

Overview

  • The debut title is being published by Dreamhaven and was revealed via a trailer, a Steam page, and Kaplan’s appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast.
  • The game is an open-world, multiplayer action‑survival FPS set on a mythical Island of California during a 19th‑century gold rush.
  • Kaplan describes a handcrafted map wrapped in a procedural seed per server, reshuffling difficulty tiers and moving points of interest between playthroughs.
  • PvP will be included but the experience is not PvP‑centric, drawing inspiration from Rust’s resetting‑world mechanic without adopting its focus.
  • Kintsugiyama counts about 34 developers, including Blizzard veteran Tim Ford, and plans an iterative Early Access release on PC after the alpha.