{"id":511814,"date":"2026-04-04T02:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511814\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:54:13","slug":"xboxs-state-of-decay-3-finally-returns-signups-now-live-for-alpha-playtests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511814\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox&#8217;s State Of Decay 3 Finally Returns, Signups Now Live For Alpha Playtests"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since Xbox first announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/state_of_decay_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State of Decay 3<\/a>, but it&#8217;s finally almost ready to start public playtesting, with a &#8220;mysterious broadcast&#8221; from Undead Labs announcing plans for multiple Alpha Playtests in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch this broadcast up above, which shows off a few bits of concept art and actual gameplay (albeit only a few seconds) from State of Decay 3, while also emphasising the role of the SOD community in shaping the game.<\/p>\n<p>The first playtest will begin in May 2026, with more opportunities to follow:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting next month, we&#8217;ll be hosting a series of Alpha Playtests with the community. I&#8217;m not going to spoil the surprise for you, but I can say that it will feature four-player co-op, some new base-building and resource strategies, and a whole lot of combat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can sign up for these Alpha Playtests by heading over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/playtest.stateofdecay.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official State of Decay 3 website<\/a>, where you&#8217;ll be asked to link a Discord account in order to gain access. For what it&#8217;s worth, it&#8217;s currently telling us that the Discord Rate Limit is exceeded, so you may need to wait until the hype dies down a little bit until you can finish your signup.<\/p>\n<p>The video mentions that players will have &#8220;plenty&#8221; of opportunities to playtest State of Decay 3 &#8220;throughout the year&#8221;, suggesting an official release date for the final version won&#8217;t land in 2026. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s clearly in a state to begin public testing, and fingers crossed it&#8217;ll continue to evolve into something special in time for a 2027 or 2028 launch.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re just happy to finally get some news on it \u2014 this is a game that was revealed all the way back in 2020!<\/p>\n<p>Excited for these State of Decay 3 playtests? When do you think the full game will release? Tell us below.<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766613369_65_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a long time since Xbox first announced State of Decay 3, but it&#8217;s finally almost ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179074,59,146426,86,56,54,55,183],"class_list":["post-511814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-alpha-playtest","tag-gb","tag-state-of-decay-3","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}