CINDER CITY Alpha Playtest Sign-Ups Open Ahead of December Test

Bigfire Games has opened sign-ups for the next CINDER CITY alpha playtest, scheduled for December 4 to December 6, 2026, on PC via Steam. Applications are open until November 30, with access limited to selected regions in North America, Europe, and Asia.

The test is available to players 18 and older in the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. North American and European players can sign up through FirstLook, while players in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan can register through Steam Playtest or the Request Access button on the game’s Steam page.

• Sign-ups run from November 12 to November 30, 2026, PST.
• The playtest runs December 4 to December 6, 2026, PST.
• Selected players will be notified by email.
• Regional play hours will be announced later through official channels.
• The test is under NDA, so recording, streaming, screenshots, and public discussion of gameplay are not allowed.

Bigfire says this build was shaped by more than 3,000 pieces of feedback from the August pre-alpha. The new version adds guide missions, a reworked ammo economy, a smoother difficulty curve, two new squad dungeons, more story content leading into a third chapter, and another open-world area said to be four times larger than the previous one.

As usual for an alpha, the studio warns that players may run into bugs, performance issues, server instability, schedule changes, or emergency maintenance. Access also can’t be shared, sold, or transferred, and players need to use the Steam account they registered with.

Further reading: Official CINDER CITY Alpha Playtest announcement on Steam