It is almost poetic that in a genre built on many people fighting to stay alive until only a few remain, so many battle royale games have launched, flopped and died in recent years. Not every new battle royale can have the same success as war zone or PUBG. In fact, most will be lucky enough to survive at all. And many don’t, as this list shows.
While fan-made mods have added battle royale-like modes to games like armathe genre really exploded with the release of Player Unknown’s battlefield and shortly after Fourteen dayspicks up the genre. These games exploded in popularity, with Fourteen days alone jumps off 20 million users in 2017 to 125 million in 2018. Publishers took notice and more studios started throwing out battle royales to capitalize on the trend. And it makes sense. These games aren’t too difficult to create if you already have a shooter engine or IP that works within the genre and a talented team of developers. However, they need constant maintenance, fresh content, and a large player base to survive. And that’s not easy to achieve.
So, To wrap up our amazing week, we focused on Battle Royale games, it seems like the perfect time to stop and acknowledge all the games that have tried to survive and thrive but ended up not making it for various reasons. They were all attacked from afar and left in a ditch surrounded by digital corpses of other failed attempts to be next Apex Legends or Fourteen days.
