Beyond the Map

Beyond the Map entered Early Access on August 25, 2025, developed by Glitch Goblins (a solo developer). Over the past year, the developer has maintained a consistent and active update cadence, shipping substantive patches every few weeks covering new systems, skills, building features, world generation improvements, and more. The most recent update — patch 0.2.15 on August 24, 2026 — is one of the most forward-looking yet. It includes major internal changes to world chunk loading specifically described as a prerequisite for two upcoming features: NPC followers (coming in the next update) and co-op multiplayer (planned for testing "in the coming months"). This is a clear, concrete developer statement about near-term content still in the pipeline. Prior to that, patch 0.2.14 on July 12, 2026 delivered the first dungeon (Shallow Caves), new skills, a new crafting station, and a range of early-game improvements — a substantial content drop that fulfilled the Dungeons commitment from the developer's February 2026 roadmap. The February 25, 2026 retrospective and Q2 roadmap also called out a revamped character creation system and a 3rd biome update (referenced again in the March 31, 2026 patch notes as a Q2 target), neither of which has been marked as delivered. With the developer actively shipping updates and explicitly naming upcoming content, the game has a significant amount of development remaining before any potential 1.0 release.