Realm Royale
Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
Pricing Model: Free to Play
Realm Royale is a free-to-playthird-person shooterbattle royale game developed by Heroic Leap Games. The game features multiple character classes each with unique abilities. It is a spin-off of the hero shooter Paladins, where it originated as a game mode known as Paladins: Battlegrounds. The game was released for Microsoft Windows via Steam’s early access program in June 2018, with versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One released two months later. A few months after releasing on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Realm Royale entered open beta on both consoles. On May 24, 2019, the game entered closed beta on Nintendo Switch and went into open beta on June 20, 2019.
The game plays similarly to other games in the Battle Royale genre, in which 90 players drop down from an airship and must traverse a shrinking safe area, collect equipment such as weapons to fight and eliminate opponents, and aim to be the last remaining player. In the Squad play mode, players are grouped into teams of four against a total of 100 players.
A crafting system allows found items to be broken down for materials to make better items or abilities at fixed locations found on the map, called Forges, which often become contested by many players. Players who have been “knocked down” by other players are transformed into a chicken, and may be transformed back if they manage to survive attackers for a period of time, during which “chickened” players have the option to deal small amounts of damage in the form of short-range melee attacks. The game includes a battle pass, known as the “Primal Awakening” until January 16, 2019, when the second season known as “Steel and Shadow” debuted, that rewards players with character cosmetics. There are four classes, with each class having specific “talents” that can be earned by leveling up.
