Battle royale games: about the games
Worms Rumble is an action game that does away with turn-based combat entirely — every round unfolds in real time. Up to 32 players from consoles and PC clash in arenas in Deathmatch or Last Worm Standing, either solo or in a squad. Next to favourites such as the Bazooka, Shotgun and Holy Hand Grenade, the armoury gains newcomers like the Hammerhead, Plasma Blaster and Rocket shield. XP and in-game currency unlock weapon appearances, outfits, accessories and emotes, while daily challenges, seasonal and community events, and fresh experimental modes in The Lab each week add more to do.
‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ is the official video game of the TV show of the same name. Players climb the prize ladder by answering 15 questions of growing difficulty, with lifelines such as phone a friend and 50/50 at hand. The game offers thousands of questions across more than 15 topics, and six countries – United Kingdom, United States, Spain, Italy, Germany and France – have their own questions in local languages. Besides EASY and FAMILY MODE, you can play TAKING TURNS with up to nine opponents sharing one controller, FREE-FOR-ALL with up to four, or ONLINE MULTIPLAYER with up to 50 players in a battle royale.
Headbangers is a light-hearted rhythm battle royale in which you and 29 other Pigeons compete for the title of Master Headbanger. Across four rounds, 23 musical minigames test memory, rhythm, reflexes, reaction time and rapping, growing harder each round, while powerups let you sabotage your rivals. Every match earns Crumbs to spend in the Shop on outfits, hats, glasses, voices and taunts for your Pigeon, and challenges plus a battle pass unlock more customisation. Up to 30 Pigeons can flock together online across platforms.
Down to One is a competitive survival shooter set in a large, interactive open world. A round opens with 42 players who own nothing at the outset, and just one of them can come out alive by using whatever the environment offers and taking down the other competitors. You can roam the ruins of an abandoned militarized area on your own, or host your own server and compete with other players. Perks let you, for example, strike a weapon out of an opponent’s hands or play dead to confuse them, and gunfights rely on realistic bullet physics with drop and dynamic penetration.
This is a battle royale brawler where several teams fight at once on one stage, and the last one standing wins. Players can use weapons, throws and a large number of special moves, and the stages contain traps that can be triggered. Besides a single-player story mode, a quick free-play option and an endless challenge, it lets you build your own team and choose which items appear in battles. Up to four players can play together locally, and online matches are also supported.
In Battle Royale Tycoon you design and build arenas where your guests fight. You set the arena rules and game mode, such as Battle Royale, Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag, and refine the arenas based on guest feedback by adding guns and cover. You expand the park with shops, bathrooms and shooting ranges, repair equipment so no one gets hurt, and clean the arenas before each new battle. The aim is to keep guests happy, workers busy and the business profitable.
Stellar Warfare is a space real-time strategy game with base building and ship customization, made as a personal passion project. Players collect resources, build an economy and a base, capture space stations and produce units, which they assemble from ship frame, weapon and module blueprints dropped by destroyed enemies. The game offers full 3D space movement, optional automation of part of the gameplay, a short campaign, skirmish and battle royale modes for multiplayer, and wave defense for one player or in cooperative play.
Blazing Sails is a fast-paced pirate PvP game about survival. Players create their own pirate and ship, team up with others and command their vessel in battles on land and at sea. Game modes include Treasure Hunt, where crews search islands for treasure chests and exchange them for gold at one of two outposts in the map centre, Battle Royale, which alternates land fights with naval battles and is won by sinking every other crew, and Galleon Conquest, a broadside battle on a huge galleon where players frag pirates, sink ships and capture flags. Crews steer, repair and resupply their ship together, ship types offer different playstyles, and weapons can be plundered.
Little Triangle is a platformer in which the player controls a small triangle and clears levels using jump and double jump. The game offers a solo mode, a local co-op mode for two to four players and a local mini Battle Royale, where players must attack opponents by jumping on their heads or using weapons, and hide. It includes more than 60 cute and funny triangle skins, numerous enemies, bosses and levels with markedly different designs. Difficulty can be set to casual or hardcore.