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PUBG Creator Sets Nov. 20 Early Access for Prologue: Go Wayback at $19.99

The studio frames the release as the first step toward Project Artemis built on its in-house machine-learning terrain tech.

Overview

  • The single-player survival game launches in Early Access on November 20 on Steam and the Epic Games Store for $19.99.
  • The Early Access build adds custom settings such as weather and time of day, new modes including Free Roam and Objective: Survive, and a map editor that supports hand-drawn, imported, or generated maps.
  • Each run generates a new 64 km² world using an in-house machine-learning model trained on publicly available open-source data and vetted for copyright, with terrain produced offline and then populated procedurally in Unreal Engine 5.
  • Core play centers on navigating to a distant weather tower while managing hunger, thirst, and body temperature across challenging, dynamically changing environments.
  • PlayerUnknown Productions positions Prologue as a phased step toward the larger Project Artemis, alongside continued work on the Melba engine and the Preface: Undiscovered World tech demo.