Kiln, the Next Game From Psychonauts Studio Double Fine, Has an April Launch Date and Steam Open Beta

Double Fine's Kiln will launch in April across PC and consoles, following a series of closed playtests and an open beta on Steam. Kiln is a multiplayer party brawler where you create your own characters from pottery, and the latest idea from the team that gave you Psychonauts 2, Costume Quest, Brutal Legend and Stacking. You can sign up now for a series of vaguely mysterious closed playtests (which you have a chance at joining) and the game's general open beta on April 9-11, all of which seems to be Steam-only. After that, Kiln will launch fully across PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on April 23. Kiln began life back in 2017 as a game concept that Double Fine cooked up in a game jam, then popped on a shelf while it was busy making other things. Years later, the concept has been refired, and turned into a surprisingly deep-looking cartoony brawler. We got a pretty detailed look at Kiln back in January, when it got a full reveal back during Microsoft's most recent Xbox Developer Direct. Gameplay footage showed how you'll be able to sculpt pots using a variety of tools: sponges, shapers, scrapers, your hands, all sorts of things. You can make pots of all shapes and sizes and typ