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title: "The Kiln Open Beta Throwdown is LIVE!"
date: 2026-04-08T00:00:00-07:00
author: admin
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# The Kiln Open Beta Throwdown is LIVE!

Available April 9 - April 11 only on Steam.

It’s **TIME**, pot­tery com­pa­tri­ots: The Kiln Open Beta Throw­down is hap­pen­ing *right now*! We’re so excit­ed to wel­come you to the Wedge from April 9 through April 11, where you’ll be able to get a taste of Kiln before it **launch­es on April 23** for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlaySta­tion 5, and Steam!

What kinds of pots will you sculpt? Will you livestream it to the world? How good do you think you’ll be at brawl­ing? Have you met Celadon and Slip yet?

All these ques­tions can be answered (and more) by **par­tic­i­pat­ing in our free beta throw­down**. All you have to do is open our Steam page, click ​“Join the Playtest,” and you’re in! It’s that sim­ple. We need all the play­ers we can get to hop in, try the game out, give us valu­able and con­struc­tive feed­back, and stress test our servers.