Guilds of Mountgate — Steam Early Access Launch

After a lot of waiting, refreshing Steamworks more often than I'd like to admit, and a few more grey hairs than originally planned, I can finally say it:

Guilds of Mountgate is launching on Steam! 🎉

The Steam review has officially been completed and the game is ready for release.

Guilds of Mountgate will enter Steam Early Access on September 2, 2026 at 20:00 CEST.

For players in North America, that's:

• 2:00 PM EDT — US East Coast

• 11:00 AM PDT — US West Coast

So yes — today is finally the day. 😄

One Last Chance for the Founder's Edition

Until the Steam release at 20:00 CEST, the Founder Edition will remain available through the official Guilds of Mountgate website.

Once the Steam Early Access version goes live, the Founder Edition will be permanently removed from sale.

Founders will, of course, keep everything associated with the Founder's Edition, including their exclusive Founder and First Settler titles, Founder Star, custom name color and future Founder-specific cosmetic goodies.

So if you've been thinking about becoming a Founder, these are officially the last few hours to do so.

After that, the Founder chapter closes — and we finally move on to the next one.

Early Access Supporters Won't Be Forgotten Either

There's also something I originally planned to announce separately, but with the Steam release now happening today, this seems like the perfect place for it.

Over the last few days, I've thought quite a bit about how Founder players are permanently recognized for supporting GoM before its Steam release.

And I realized that the people supporting Guilds of Mountgate during Early Access deserve some recognition as well.

Everyone who purchases Guilds of Mountgate during its Early Access period, before Version 1.0, will receive the exclusive legacy title:

Trailblazer

Early Access supporters will also receive a small exclusive symbol that can be displayed alongside their name.

And that doesn't necessarily have to be the end of it. As systems such as equipment, combat and Housing are introduced, I'd also like to keep both Founder and Early Access supporters in mind for additional cosmetic goodies where they make sense.

I don't want to promise specific items before those systems exist, but the general idea is simple:

If you supported Guilds of Mountgate during its early development, I'd like there to always be a little something that remembers that.

As always, these rewards are purely cosmetic and provide no gameplay advantages.

Founder rewards will remain distinctly Founder-exclusive, while Early Access supporters will have their own identity as Trailblazers.

It's been a considerably longer road to Steam than I expected when I originally started preparing for this release. But the additional time wasn't wasted. GoM has received a huge number of fixes, Quality-of-Life improvements, balancing changes and, most recently, some substantial backend and server improvements in preparation for more players arriving.

And now we can finally stop talking about when the Steam release is happening.

Because it's happening today. 😄

September 2, 2026 — 20:00 CEST.

Thank you to everyone who has already supported, tested, reported bugs, suggested improvements, argued about my questionable design decisions, or simply spent time wandering around Mountgate.