Raise a family, farm the land, and build an everlasting legacy in a vast world, now expanding to all consoles with the new Tavern Update available to PC players today
Guildford, UK – 23 June 2026 – PixelCount Studios today announced that its acclaimed PC life sim sandbox RPG, Kynseed, will launch for PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on 4 August. Kynseed invites players to explore a vast and beautiful hand-crafted world where they will live through countless lives in the world of Quill, experiencing a story that spans generations.
Kynseed’s free new Tavern Update is also available to all PC players from today. This community-requested feature allows players to run a tavern of their very own where they’ll serve refreshments, manage stock and hire staff to create a lively social hub and bring NPCs together.
Developed by veterans of the Fable series, in Kynseed players plant a mystical acorn and raise it into a family tree where their choices form the branches. Players will raise a family, farm the land, run a business, and explore a vast world filled with colourful NPCs as its inhabitants age and reveal their secrets. When a character dies, control passes to their children and the adventure continues across generations.
Since launching on PC in December 2022, Kynseed has seen more than 10 major game updates, adding significant new features including:
- The Tavern: Serve food and drinks, hire staff and acquire useful perks to create a social hub where all NPCs come together.
- A deeper story experience: New tasks and characters, plus a new region and combat level designed to bring gentler story pacing.
- Customisation: Unlock hundreds of items through gameplay to customise the interior, exterior and function of farms.
- Friends & family builds: Forge closer friendships with NPCs to enlist their aid in building farm structures with additional benefits, or to help with repairs and gaining access to new areas.
- Progression Tracking: Comprehensively track progress across all activities, with over 400 challenges available offering money, items and customisation unlocks.
- Quality of life updates: General improvements to NPCs, new batch crafting, an instant messaging system for task/event alerts and much more.
Kynseed’s new content will be available for console players at launch, alongside a newly-optimised console UI and controls. A full list of updates can be found here.
Kynseed Features:
- A generation-spanning story. Embark upon an epic adventure filled with joy, sorrow, comedy, and tragedy, where choices matter and decisions echo through the generations.
- Run a business. Forge tools as a blacksmith, run a store, mix potions as an apothecary, or find other ways to build a fortune.
- A world of exploration. The land of Quill is filled with characters, secrets, danger, and dark faery tale creatures to battle.
- Farm the land. Grow ingredients for food and potions, work the soil, and set up home for your family.
- Develop Relationships. Quill is full of colourful NPCs who will remember your deeds, actions, and pranks.
- Find proverbs. Unlock the lore and secrets of this mysterious dark faery tale world.
- Gather materials. Forage and farm to craft items, cook recipes or mix cures for a range of bizarre maladies.
“Bringing Kynseed to consoles is a milestone we’ve been working toward for a long time,” said PixelCount Co-Founder Neal Whitehead. “The PC community has been incredible and their feedback has helped us make the land of Quill even richer and more vast than it was at launch just over two years ago. We know that many players want to experience the land of Quill on consoles, and we’ve spent a long time ensuring the console experience feels natural, intuitive and complete.”
Sir Ian Livingstone, games industry legend and Chairman of PixelCount Studios, added: “The ambition of Kynseed has always been to offer players a level of freedom and legacy-building rarely seen in sandbox RPGs. From deep crafting to exploration to mastering the combat system to farming to running a blacksmith shop, or simply watching your family grow, Kynseed has it all in a wonderfully whimsical way! We are delighted that PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch players will finally get to plant their own family trees on 4th August.”
Kynseed will launch for PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X|S/Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on 4 August and is available to pre-order now for £19.99/$24.99/€24.99.
Follow Kynseed visit Kynseed.com and PixelCountStudios.com.
ABOUT PIXELCOUNT STUDIOS
PixelCount Studios is an independent developer founded by Fable veterans Charlie Edwards and Neal Whitehead. Chaired by Sir Ian Livingstone (co-founder of Games Workshop and Founder & General Partner of Hiro Capital), the studio is dedicated to creating original RPGs inspired by the charm, eccentricity, and humor of classic British game design.
