Open now · By request
Wheatstead playtest
by ccy12023
Farm, fight crops that turn into monsters, and feed your harvest into a factory. Lay conveyors and pipes to make bread, chocolate, beer, and textiles, and program drones to handle farm work. Play solo or co-op over LAN or a direct host connection.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Nov 9, 2026
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- ccy12023
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Co-op, LAN, Multiplayer, Online co-op, Online PvP, PvP, Single-player
- Languages
- Arabic, English, French, German and 11 more
How to join the Wheatstead playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Wheatstead playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Generative AI assisted in creating some artwork, written content, store copy, and localized translations. These materials were generated during development and incorporated into the game and store page. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay or connect to external third-party AI services.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Wheatstead
If you enjoy farming and factory automation and don't mind picking up a gun to defend your fields, Wheatstead lets you start with a single plot and build it into a full production line.
Your harvest might fight back
Find plants in the wild, research them into crops, and plow your first field. Some crops turn into monsters when they mature, and a few grow into elites or bosses. Fight back with guns, swords, or spears, wear a helmet and armor, and haul what you collect back to the production line.
Connect your farm to a production line
Conveyors move items, pipes carry liquids, and cables power your machines. Lay out the machines, link each step, and track down where supplies run short or get stuck, so one machine's output feeds straight into the next.
Bread, chocolate, beer, and medicine
Mill wheat into flour and bake bread, process cocoa all the way into milk chocolate, brew beer from barley, and make wine from grapes. Papermaking, tea, soap, textiles, leather, and herbal medicine are in there too. By-products have their own uses: spent grain becomes feed, grape pomace goes into compost, and cocoa shells can be roasted into tea.
Program drones to work your fields
Assemble drones and use blocks or code to plan tilling, sowing, harvesting, and hauling. Send them back to a docking port to resupply.
Pick the right variety for your land
Wheat and rapeseed come in early-maturing, high-yield, and cold-hardy varieties. Check your trial-planting records before deciding which one fills your fields. Raise chickens, cows, sheep, and pigs, collect their manure for organic fertilizer, and use it to boost crops that are still growing.
Your farm is on a planet
The world is a whole planet. The surface wraps around with no edge, and you can cross the poles. The map is a globe you can rotate and zoom. Forests, grasslands, and regions with different climates hold plants you can research, and the town is there for trading and commissions.
A promise with fifteen years to prepare
A visitor who claims to come from another world promises to take your entire settlement away for an enormous fee. You have fifteen in-game years to prepare. As you farm, build, and save up, listen to your companions, face conflicts within the settlement, and make your own choices. The story has multiple endings.
Build alone or share the work
Play solo, or farm, build, and fight alongside friends in the same world. Co-op supports LAN and direct host connections and needs a reachable host address and port. Official multiplayer servers with player combat and raiding are planned for the full release.
From the game's Steam page.
