In Kynseed, live your lives the way you choose in a lovingly hand-crafted and huge 2D open world.

You've been given the Kynseed, a mystical acorn that grows into a family tree where your choices manifest in its branches. Raise a family, farm the land, run shops, and explore the world as its inhabitants age around you. When you die, step into the shoes of your children and continue your legacy.

Live your life in a quirky world where everyone ages and dies, including your pets! Take control of the mystical Kynseed and grow your family legacy over generations as you pass your skills and powers down to your children.

Plant a mystical acorn that grows into a family tree in which your choices create its branches. Raise a family, farm the land, run shops, and explore a world where everyone ages. When you die, step into your children's shoes and continue your family's legacy.

PixelCount Studios announced that 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.

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.

PixelCount Studios is chaired by games industry legend, Sir Ian Livingstone. Sir Ian is best known as one of the founders of Games Workshop (Warhammer), co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy series of adventure gamebooks, Eidos (Tomb Raider) and a General Partner at Hiro Capital. Sir Ian is an investor, advisor and a business mentor at PixelCount, and has lent his decades of expertise in gameplay mechanics to the development of Kynseed. 

“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.”

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.

Key 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. 

Currently available for PC (Steam), Kynseed is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S on August 4, 2026.