Make music together in VR and on PC. Wishlist now to support the launch.
PatchWorld is coming to Steam Early Access, bringing our multiplayer music-making universe to PC VR and desktop.
For the past years, we have been building PatchWorld on standalone VR headsets with a small but incredibly creative community. What started as a single-player VR music app has grown into a living creative ecosystem where people make music together, build instruments, create audiovisual worlds, perform live, teach, learn, and remix each other’s creations.
Getting this to work on standalone headsets was a huge challenge. Music is one of the most demanding forms of real-time collaboration: timing, latency, sound quality, gesture, presence, and synchronization all have to feel right. If the delay feels wrong, the magic disappears.
Now, with Steam, PatchWorld has more room to grow. PC VR gives creators more power for richer worlds and more ambitious setups, while desktop makes it easier for more people to join, record, stream, guide sessions, or explore PatchWorld without always being inside a headset.
Before launch, the best way to support us is to wishlist and follow PatchWorld on Steam.
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What is PatchWorld?
PatchWorld is a live audiovisual creative playground where music is not only something you compose on a screen. It is something you enter, touch, connect, perform, and share in real time.
You can start with ready-made jam worlds and instruments designed to feel musical immediately, even without formal training. Many setups are synchronized or quantized, so beginners can experience the joy of making music together quickly.
But PatchWorld also goes much deeper.
Its block-based patching system lets advanced creators build custom instruments, modular devices, reactive visuals, interactive worlds, and full audiovisual performances. Instead of being locked into fixed tools, you can open things up, rewire them, remix community creations, and build your own systems from the inside.
As musician and visual artist Tom Vigal, also known as @Hanumanatee, puts it:
“I came for the music, but stayed for the immersive visuals and creative possibilities. It pulls you in with what you can do right away, then becomes impossible to put down once you realize how deep it goes.”
Why Steam Matters
Steam is an important step because it brings PatchWorld to more powerful creative setups and more ways of joining the same world.
On PC VR, PatchWorld can support richer environments, more complex patches, more ambitious performances, and higher-fidelity experiences.
On desktop, PatchWorld becomes easier to access beyond the VR niche. Desktop users can join sessions, explore worlds, help run workshops, record footage, stream performances, or collaborate with VR players from a screen.
For existing users, this is not a separate universe. PatchWorld accounts work across platforms, so the Steam release expands the ecosystem rather than splitting it.
Built for Music, Open Beyond Music
Sound remains at the core of PatchWorld.
Our proprietary audio engine has been developed over many years to support real-time synthesis, sampling, spatial sound, mixing, and live performance.
PatchWorld also supports mixed reality, hand tracking, MIDI, OSC, Ableton Link, and connected workflows, making it possible to bridge virtual instruments with DAWs, controllers, physical gear, cameras, and live visual systems.
And while music is the entry point, the same block-based system can also connect logic, math, gameplay, avatars, physics, visuals, and world behavior. Many users arrive for the music and end up building things they did not even know they wanted to make.
Launching in Early Access
PatchWorld is coming to Steam in Early Access because it is not a closed, finished product. It is a living creative platform that keeps evolving with the people who use it.
Since our first release, PatchWorld has changed enormously through testing, workshops, jam sessions, community feedback, experiments, bugs, fixes, and happy accidents.
Recently, we shipped one of our biggest updates so far: a full redesign of the creative block system, bringing it out of beta and making patching more powerful, readable, and efficient.
There is still a lot we want to improve. During Early Access, you can expect regular updates, better workflows, tutorials, documentation, onboarding improvements, performance refinements, and a stronger bridge between VR and desktop creation.
A Community of Patchers
PatchWorld would not exist in its current form without its community.
Over the past years, people have met in Discord and in VR to share what they are building, help each other understand the system, join workshops, host jams, test new ideas, and create things we could never have designed alone.
That spirit is the heart of PatchWorld. We want to grow it carefully as Steam brings in new users: a culture where people feel welcome to express themselves, learn, experiment, make mistakes, and evolve together in a respectful space where imagination and curiosity are valued.
As one community member put it:
“PatchWorld is hands-down one of the best things I’ve tried in VR. It’s a super fun, creative space where you can make music, visuals, and anything in between. The community is amazing, welcoming and supportive, and everyone is treated with respect whether you’re just starting out or already experienced.”
Wishlist PatchWorld on Steam
PatchWorld is coming to Steam Early Access for PC VR and desktop.
Wishlist and follow PatchWorld on Steam to support the launch, get future demo updates, and help more creators discover a new way to make music together in virtual worlds.
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