Yes, including the survival world, caves, gameplay systems, UI and other game content shown on this page and in our videos. The exception is the Leartes bunker showcase art. You receive The Ones Before as an editable Unreal Engine project, with its survival, construction, inventory, world systems, main menu, online lobby and configurable data.

The Cold War Underground Bunker by Leartes Studios (https://cosmos.leartesstudios.com/environments/cold-war-underground-bunker) shown in some showcase footage is not included. The supplied world includes Hyper's own bunker instead. You can use the foundation without purchasing the Leartes pack, or license it separately through the creator link if you want to use that art.

No. This is an editable game-development foundation with working, connected systems and playable content. It gives you a substantial starting point for building your own game. It is not a finished retail game with a complete campaign, final balancing and every detail polished for release.

The supplied project and any playable demo let you explore the systems in context: how interactions connect, how the gameplay is configured and where you can extend it. Learn from that setup, change the world and art direction, and develop the story or gameplay you want to create. We provide the foundation; you shape the game and bring it to release.

Yes. With the appropriate license, you can use the foundation to develop and commercially release your own game, including on Steam. Follow the license that applies to your purchase, the terms for any separately licensed content you add and your chosen store's requirements.

We ask you to build on the foundation rather than upload the supplied project or demo unchanged. Give the game your own identity: adapt the art style and environment, develop your own story or gameplay, and test and polish the experience for your players. The project is here to support your creative idea and help you turn it into a game of your own.

For Fab purchases, the Fab Standard License (https://www.fab.com/eula?lang=en) permits commercial use in your game, but not resale or redistribution of the underlying asset as a standalone product.

Individual is for emerging creators. Professional is for studios and enterprises. Both include the editable Foundation project, documentation, verified Discord access, product support and bug fixes.

Our Professional offer adds the Hyper Integration Service (https://gamesbyhyper.com/product/hyper-integration-service-module-bundle-setup/), team verification, a studio tag and priority support. You can also request a project showcase and release announcement through our channels. See the service page for integration scope and request details.

On Fab, the tiers are called Personal and Professional. On our website, they are Individual, Studio and Enterprise, with the Professional benefits applying to Studio and Enterprise. Choose the tier that matches the store's eligibility rules. Fab Personal and Professional grant the same usage rights.

Not necessarily. We offer existing Hyper customers personal deals based on the products they already own. Sign in to Personal Offers in your account (https://gamesbyhyper.com/my-account/my-library/?library_tab=personal-offers#personal-offers) to see what is available to you. These offers are handled through our website.

See the Foundations by Hyper overview (https://gamesbyhyper.com/foundations/) for the full foundation range and more information.

Yes, with compatible versions. The foundation already combines its systems into one experience, so adding modules is optional. We recommend this work for intermediate to advanced Unreal Engine users.

Use the same Unreal Engine version and matching Hyper generation. Our free Integration Tool (https://gamesbyhyper.com/product/integration-tool/) and integration guide (https://gamesbyhyper.com/docs/getting-started/use-the-automatic-integration-tool/) help with compatible Hyper projects.

Extend selected logic or features carefully. Foundations contain their own gameplay code, UI, DataTables and settings. Importing a module can overwrite those files, so seamless integration is not guaranteed. Work in a separate copy, review conflicts and merge the changes you need before testing the result.

Explore optional modules on the Games by Hyper website (https://gamesbyhyper.com/shop/) or our Fab store (https://www.fab.com/sellers/Games%20By%20Hyper).

Yes, within the applicable product license. Shared Hyper systems use the modular framework, while foundation-specific features can depend on that foundation's character, UI, data and game flow. Extracting those features may require manual integration.

Use matching Unreal Engine and Hyper versions, keep a backup and follow the integration guide (https://gamesbyhyper.com/docs/getting-started/use-the-automatic-integration-tool/). We recommend this work for intermediate to advanced users.

For working with our larger projects in Unreal Editor, we recommend 64 GB RAM, a recent-generation CPU, a fast SSD with ample free space and a capable NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30, 40 or 50 series graphics card. GPU performance tier and available VRAM matter as well as the generation.

This is our development recommendation for large projects. Requirements for your packaged game depend on its content, resolution, graphics settings and target platform. Smaller maps and individual Hyper modules can have much lighter requirements.

Hyper's gameplay systems are designed for efficient execution with low overhead. The complete world still determines the workload: scene complexity, textures, dynamic lighting and shadows, weather effects, loaded World Partition regions and the number of active AI characters all affect performance. Large AI populations and busy multiplayer scenes also need CPU and networking budgets.

A large world running in Unreal Editor can be demanding even when the gameplay code is efficient. Measure a packaged build on your target hardware after startup preparation has finished. Editor frame rates and first-launch compilation are not representative of steady gameplay, and we do not promise a fixed frame rate for every project or computer.

The supplied meshes, textures, animations and other source content take storage space. Unreal also needs room for derived-data caches, build files and packaged output, so allow more free SSD space than the download size alone.

On first launch, Unreal may compile shaders, generate derived asset data and compile project or plugin code when required. Loading a large map adds more work. Give that preparation time to finish before judging performance. Later launches can reuse cached data, although engine, content or configuration changes can require new preparation.

Load the region you are working on rather than the entire world. In the World Partition editor, select the area you need and use Load Region from Selection. Keep unrelated regions unloaded, and use a smaller test map for focused system work when available.

Loading the whole world and playing inside Unreal Editor increases memory and rendering demands. A packaged game uses its configured runtime streaming and has a different workload. Test that build separately with the intended lighting, shadows, weather, AI population and graphics settings.

Yes. It includes a Hyper-adapted version of Epic Games' Game Animation Sample Project (GASP). We have adapted its locomotion to the foundation's character, equipment and gameplay systems, so it is already part of the supplied project.

No. Our team designed and built Hyper's core framework and gameplay architecture. The wider ecosystem represents 75,000+ hours of development, integration, multiplayer engineering, testing and documentation over years of work.

Hyper is the market leader in publicly available modular Unreal Engine frameworks. Its value is in the systems working together: shared data, consistent interfaces, multiplayer behavior and connected gameplay systems. Generating individual features with AI does not automatically produce that complete, tested architecture.

A small amount of replaceable example art, such as icons and meshes, was created with AI. Other art is made by us, commissioned from artists or sourced under CC0 from projects such as Poly Haven (https://polyhaven.com/) and ambientCG (https://ambientcg.com/).

Yes. Hyper is an exceptionally valuable framework for AI-assisted Unreal Engine development. Its generic, modular architecture is a particular strength: shared interfaces, consistent data structures and reusable components give an assistant a clear way to understand how the systems fit together. The same patterns recur across the framework, so an assistant can use that context when extending features, tracing bugs or adding your own gameplay.

You start with the hard part already connected. Gameplay, UI, multiplayer and persistence have an existing structure. AI can work within that foundation instead of generating isolated features that you still need to combine. That makes Hyper more valuable in an AI workflow: you bring the game ideas, and both you and your assistant build on the same coherent, editable core.

Our Hyper AI Integration Studio (https://gamesbyhyper.com/product/hyper-ai-integration-studio/) helps assistants inspect Unreal projects and work with Hyper-specific project knowledge and context. We use it internally for debugging and development too. It is an optional separate download; see the Studio guide (https://gamesbyhyper.com/docs/project-foundations/hyper-ai-studio/) for setup.

AI development assistance does not grant permission to train or fine-tune models on proprietary Hyper content, or to create or share training datasets from it. Use provider settings and terms that keep your project content out of model training. See the AI-use terms (https://gamesbyhyper.com/terms-of-use/#ai-training) and your applicable product license.

Yes. Hyper is MetaHuman compatible through its visual override workflow. You can use your own character appearance while retaining the connected gameplay character.

Assign your MetaHuman or custom character assets, set up the animation Blueprint and configure retargeting or Copy Pose From Mesh for your skeleton. MetaHumans also need their Epic-provided setup logic. Follow the character and MetaHuman visual override guide (https://gamesbyhyper.com/docs/getting-started/set-up-your-own-character/) for the steps and reference setup.

For new Hyper framework projects, we recommend V5 on Unreal Engine 5.8. The framework generations correspond to these engine versions:

V5: Unreal Engine 5.8.

V4: Download under Unreal Engine 5.7. V4 projects also work on Unreal Engine 5.8 after switching the project version. C++ plugins must be compiled for UE 5.8.

V3: Unreal Engine 5.5 and 5.6.

V2: earlier Unreal Engine 5 releases, through 5.4.

V1: Unreal Engine 4.

This is the framework's version history, not a promise that every foundation is available for every older engine. Check the supported versions on the release you download. Modules must match the project's Unreal Engine version and Hyper generation; independent plugins have their own compatibility requirements.

No. We cannot guarantee that a framework of this size will be completely bug-free. We investigate reproducible technical problems in the supplied project and prioritize fixes by their impact.

A bug stops advertised functionality from working as intended, such as a broken interaction, an unusable UI control or saved progress failing to load. Preferences about the story, pacing, visual transitions or scenery placement are usually design feedback. If a transition fails or scenery blocks gameplay, report the technical problem.

Check the issue in an unmodified copy on a supported engine version and review existing reports. Use the official bug-report form in our Discord (https://discord.gg/gbycyH4C9B), including the foundation name, Hyper and Unreal Engine versions, reproduction steps and relevant logs or screenshots. See our support guidelines and bug-report process (https://gamesbyhyper.com/docs/) for details. Reports help us improve the foundations; a specific fix date or a completely bug-free result cannot be guaranteed.

Start with the Foundations by Hyper overview (https://gamesbyhyper.com/foundations/) for the range and general foundation information. Use the getting-started guide (https://gamesbyhyper.com/docs/getting-started/start-here/) and system documentation (https://gamesbyhyper.com/docs/) for setup. Join the Games by Hyper Discord (https://discord.gg/gbycyH4C9B) for product questions and the developer community.

Yes, where they make sense as independent products. We plan to keep expanding the Games by Hyper store (https://gamesbyhyper.com/shop/) with reusable systems and packages, giving you the option to buy individual parts instead of a complete foundation.

In The Ones Before, carrying a log connects first-person animations, the open-layout inventory, buildable placement, placement previews and the building book. We do not plan to sell that log-carrying flow as a separate module. It is part of the survival experience, with those systems already working together.

A foundation gives you the connected gameplay, including the specific logic that brings its systems together. That integration is part of its value. Games by Hyper focuses on reusable technical modules, and we announce new standalone products separately as they are ready.

Sign in with the account linked to your purchases. Relevant verified Hyper products determine your ownership discount. Larger systems count more. Smaller paid systems build up together towards higher offers, with a shared limit. Templates and overlapping systems count once. The maximum is 40%, or 30% for The Ones Before and Industry Zero. While the pre-order bonus is available, it adds an extra 10% pre-order discount, up to 50% or 40% in total. Open the calculation beside your price to see what has been recognized.

Yes. Your ownership discount remains available in your account after pre-order, so you can plan your purchase. The extra 10-point pre-order bonus is temporary and ends when that Foundation leaves pre-order or the launch offer is ended. No end date has been announced. New qualifying purchases can update your ownership discount.

We automatically apply the better of your personal price, an eligible complete-collection price and the current public price for each Foundation. These offers are compared, not added together. Other coupons cannot be combined. Your ownership discount is not reduced because you originally bought a qualifying Hyper product during a sale.