The battle royale style is as ferocious a brawl as any Fortnite match, and you really want a hook to outlive. Rapture Rejects has a number of – for starters, it’s isometric and cartoony, as a substitute of being one more first or third-person tactical head-clicker. Second, it’s based mostly on scattershot and continuously edgy webcomic and cartoon sequence Cyanide & Happiness, although your mileage could range on whether or not that’s a perk or a cause to steer clear. Either means, it’s launching into early entry subsequent Thursday, November 29th and developed by Explosm and Galvanic Games.
Playing because the final, more and more unhinged dregs of society after everybody value caring about obtained rapture’d as much as heaven, the final man standing wins God’s favour and the final ticket to paradise. Blasphemous? Yes, but it surely’s pretty much as good an excuse as any for there being completely no holds barred within the ensuing murderfest. First announced in June, Rapture Rejects has seen some modifications over a number of runs of closed alpha testing. For starters, its hundred-man rumbles have been pared all the way down to fifty gamers. Hopefully it’ll have the ability to maintain itself throughout its lengthy keep in early entry.
Galvanic and Explosm are on this for the lengthy haul. Rapture Rejects is deliberate to remain in early entry till early 2020. The early entry model can have hand-crafted environments, however they wish to embrace procedural technology in later variations, and better participant character customisation. There’s additionally plans for extra of all the pieces – weapons, perks, gadgets – plus the same old stability tweaking. The ultimate launch will value extra, however that’s nonetheless over a yr from now. After so many others have struggled to seek out their area of interest, I can solely want the builders luck, and perhaps a hen dinner.
Rapture Rejects launches into early entry on November 29th, subsequent Thursday. It’ll value £15.49/€16.79/$19.99, and yow will discover it on Steam here, or its official page here. It’s printed by TinyBuild.
