Riot cancelled Hytale last week, five years after acquiring the studio making it.

The Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG Hytale is cancelled, but it's not necessarily dead. In the wake of Riot's decision to pull the plug on development last week, Hypixel Studios co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme has expressed interest in the possibility of bringing it back to life, and says he's willing to put his money—a lot of money—where his mouth is.

Hytale was revealed to the world in 2018, when it had already been in development "for several years," and developer Hypixel Studios was acquired by Riot just a couple years later. Instead of a planned 2021 release, though, numerous delays followed: Developer updates slowed to a crawl, and we never really saw anything more of it than the 2018 announcement trailer. Earlier this month, Riot finally cancelled the game, and closed Hypixel outright.

Recriminations and finger-pointing followed in the immediate wake of Hytale's cancellation, as some developers took to social media to express their frustration with internal studio management at Hypixel.