PlayerUnknown Productions’ Prologue: Go Wayback survival game starts open beta

PlayerUnknown Productions today announced its upcoming emergent single-player survival experience, Prologue: Go Wayback, is now available in open beta on Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Starting today, players can dive into a full version of the game in development and experience its unforgiving wilderness, dynamic weather systems, and hardcore survival mechanics across billions of worlds generated by the latest advances in the studio’s in-house technology.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.