The MOBA That Tried To Be A Battle Royale - What Happened To Battlerite? 

Battlerite Royale had so much potential but putting a price on it and splitting it from Battlerite was a huge fail.

When I hear the words battle royale, I begin to feel a sudden urge to go home, even tho I am already there.

have over 1300 hours in battlerite, having reached the top rank in the game several times. having followed the game's development since early access, it was such a pain to see it go. good night sweet prince

Battlerite seemed like a fighting game in many aspects and I will never forget it.

This game was really fun, I played in the early access with a couple of friends and hoped on once in a while

Not even knowing this game existed tells a story in itself

If I see dead island epidemic on this I will cry a single tear in this video Brb crying rn thanks akshon

oh my heart... i poured almost 200+ hours into this game. i loved it so much- it hurt to see it would stop development. ill have to watch this asap

Died so quickly I didn’t even hear about it till now.

I played Battlerite, it had the most fluid and active gameplay out of all the MOBA's i played. Hitting skill shots felt really statisfying. Sad that that there aren't many players anymore.

I really want an MMO with battlerite combat, I feel like it would be a perfect blend of smooth action and readability

Battlerite had the best healer design I have ever seen in a game

Battlerite was an exceptionally fun video game, still find games pretty often!

It had a great run and then the devs said: „Yeah wouldnt it be fun if we just stopped right there?“

Battlerite was soooo much fun. Rook was my favorite character, I loved charging and clobbering people like a caveman. Ultimately I dropped it when queue times became too long. It really deserved getting a proper playerbase though. It was fantastic

Hey! People are still playing it and we do private game with people, I don't know i I can send link here but search for the Official Discord! You'll find us here! It's a lot of fun! Battlerite or Royale!

I'm about to download it again. Let's bring it back guys!

I had close to 120 hours in Battlerite. Really loved that game.

I played a bit of Battlerite, it wasn't quite my thing. But man, those 2 seconds of footage from Paragon at the start. Now that brought some memories back.

I remember when total biscuits introduce this game to me. Rip

Literally the best arena style pvp game to this day

This game had so much potential and I played it for 400 hours, it was so sad to see it go F

This is honestly one of the best games I ever played, but the difficulty was what made me leave. It came out right as I was finishing college and figuring out how to be a real adult and I just didn't have the time to commit to actually being any sort of decent at it. Such a fun experience at first though.

The problem for me was the game just had a way to steep learning curve. So you couldn't really play it with friends, since the skill gaps were just larger than in any game I've ever played. Therefore it never became the "main game" for most of the players. Also people wouldn't really play it for a long time because the 7 min ultra-intense games were just so exhausting, you couldn't play for hours like you can in other games.

Damn, I played this on the pre-ranked era and had a blast, sadly my friends didn't get that much into it so we went back to our established titles. Had no idea it went this bad afterwards, a shame because it was so damn fun.

Battlerite was so amazing, I actually think about this game a lot. I enjoyed it so much and really wish it took off

Hopefully this game can be an example for other studios or dev team just how important it is to listen to its community and try to satisfy their needs instead of just trying to steal their money

yo i loved this game, it was so sad watching it die

Sincerely didn't enjoy the battle royale mode, but I was a real fan of arena mode. Would love a MOBA with Battlerite's combat, the standart really bores me. The servers are still open, but development is paused, devs did said that a miracle will make them return. I don't really think it'll happen, but hope's still there, this game really is one of a kind and I will truly miss it.

Ohhh battlerite, this breaks my heart. My second most played game on steam 💔

A was a fan of Battlerite right away from early accsess, because the gampley was so enjoyable. It was truly a painful journey to see the develpoers neglect the community who already wanted the game to thrive, and move on to chase a differnet goal. I still rember how i felt when they first announced the BR game-mode, and than making it into a distinct game. Whenever I think of Battlerite nowdays, i remember how much I enjoyed arena, and how devasteted it was to see the company make such poor decisions. This just shows how a truly amazing game can die so easily when paired with a few poor choices.

Would love to see you guys make a video on Ninja Theory's "Bleeding Edge"

man, what a great video. I discovered royale last week and have been almost addicted just to now want to drop out cuz the game is abandoned. I'm SO sad rn for it

Hey lets combine the two genres that have the most fickle player bases, im sure it will be a smash hit.

I remember playing that deer char what was supposed to be support, but i always was able to fight even 3 v 1, only that ice char could defeat me.

at this point, indie games have almost no room to make a competitive game due how hungry players are for the upcoming content, while most indie can only deliver every 3rd of year or half.

As a fan of BR from the time of BLC launch, I think that Stunlock destroyed their game by themselves. After half a year after the launch they only released ranked system, and some skin events, which is less then a third of their announced changes in devmap. And after that Stunlock announced the BattleRoyal version, when the original BR was just dying from content lack. Instead of focusing on polishing and content update for one game, they split their resources between 2 games, and destroyed both of them. So sad(

You want a moba battle royale you should play Eternal Return Black Survival

God, man. I played Bloodline Champions religiously back in high school and when Battlerite released I almost cried I was so fucking happy. I jumped back in and it just felt *perfect*, it was everything I'd missed from not having Bloodline champions and then some. And then they decided to make it a Battle Royale. Then I *did* cry as it started to bleed more and more and eventually die.

This game dying broke my heart. This was my first ever competitive online game

I still think about this game every day. I tell myself I’m going to play but I don’t because I feel like no one plays it anymore.

I sincerely miss Battlerite, I remember when my friend and I would play for hours. Grinding rank to diamond and beyond, then as time went on it became less and less. I do think the BR version was a huge mistake and they just should've had it be a sub-gamemode. The idea was amazing, and it stands to this day to be some of the best memories of my life with my old friend while also being one of THE MOST balanced games I've ever played. It was all about skill and nothing more.

"Community focus" for a small company producing a Hero-Arena game means a content churn. The community always wants free stuff and more content and shakeups to the meta, and with a team that small it just leaves no overhead for workshopping new modes and pve content

Also there was an awesome gamemode called "Battlegrounds", which had a some usual MOBA aspects, such as a destroying main object or special events on the map. I still remember when I messing with my AMD Drivers to play this awesome gamemode, and after a short period this gamemode was removed to 'fix a main issues', but after that he was never been appeared again. Battlerite is a still my favourite game and i miss this good old times.

I think at this point SMITE needs its own video. It impressed me how underrated the game is, it's no less fun than league or Dota and it releases as much content as them. It's shocking that it only has like 1/100th of their playerbase.

I've been playing Battlerite for a few years, and then I tried out Royale for the first time today, and I love it!! I don't care much that it borrows a lot from various other royale games. It feels like Battlerite's best brother, and I love the style, vibe, and exploration. I wish more people played both games. Ruh Kaan and Thorn are so cute, Anyway :D

Damn... seeing paragon hurts... it wasn’t even failing, Epic just had to make a business decision and that cost it its life 😪

dude this is the game of my dreams ive been thinkig about the mood like that in dota 2 for a long time lol

i asked Stunlock Studios if they are planning some updates for Battlerite Arena/Royale, they said no but will keep the servers running, at the moment they said to be working on a new Project

I have 200 hours in this game and it is quite frankly an awesome game.

i didnt even know this game shutted down until today used to play it with my friend who's pretty much casual gamer

Was one of my favorite mobas. Such a shame, got Diamond 3 during Beta and then the game just started slowly dying. After the Jumong nerfs people felt slighted, BRRoyale was a deathblow. Fucking tragic. This and Gigantic shouldve been big.

man, I was a huge fan of Bloodline Champions and of Battlerite, but in the end there wasn't enough playerbase in either. It's not battle royale that killed it, it was its deathrattle.

I’d buy battlerite 2 in a heartbeat

It was a fantastic game tbh, and not really as hard as others made it seem, perhaps that's just subjective opinion but three stacking with ur mates was flawless on that game, and the battle royale mode was my most played battle royale ever. Insanely fun, sad when it died.

My soul hurt when I saw Paragon...

My theory on why these games are slowly dying is that the small devs are overwhelmed by the player size who loves instant gratification, that the deves are already burned out. This is an example of why instant success can become harmful.

If this was a 3d game like WoW arenas it would have popped off so hard. I love Battlerite and played it a lot but god damn do I hate the top down bullshit.

Stunlock Studios announced a new game - V rising besides that... what they could've finished implementing was player hosted tournaments via in-game feature. apparently it was present in bloodline champions and was the last thing they worked on before announcing and concentrating on royale. such a shame

Oh man I remember playing this game. One of the things I always thought was going against it was the core gameplay being very fast all the time for the full round demanding constant attention. In most other MOBAs, there's peaks of action with stretches of calm; a game of league isn't going to be non-stop massive teamfights all the time for the full game but BR forced that. By design, BR only allowed for people with great reflexed and nonstop concentration to really win which could easily get exhausting even after a few games.

Fortune's theme sent chills man The memories

This was my favorite game, perfect mix between league and a versus fighter, easy to pick up but very deep can wait for the stunlock to create a new one like this

I can never get into MOBAs. The gameplay just doesn't work for me. I liked Battleborn, but that's impossible to play anymore.

I remember when Battlerite came out and and almost every League youtuber milked it for all it was worth, announcing they were qutting LoL for it, only for literally a month later those same RU-vidrs pretending the game didn't exist.

6:00 I Disagree. The problem wasnt that the suppot class was hard to do, the point of video games is that they are challenging and you enjoy succeding in doing the hard stuff regardless, the problem was that Battlerite failed in explaining new players HOW to EXACTLY play support, specifically, each character, and also make a PVE gamemode that allowed players to practice them without the pressure of online games. Sirius is actually really easy to play as. You just heal with m2, you use E to pretify enemies, you counter fi you need to and you deal damage when you can. If you have the oportunity, you teleport into an enemy and you mouse1 hit them for big damage, OR you retreat, you teleport into your ally to heal them and you move to safety at the same time.

I didn't even know this existed lol

i hope the studio brings the game back. i had a blast playing battlerite and it would be a damn shame to see such a good take on the genre fade away

Battlerite having no tournament mode feature, having a separate Battle Royale game instead of just adding it to the base game, and the most dreaded addition: attempting to add the battle royale features likes items and launch pads to the original game all can’t compare to the one thing that really killed the game: overcharge. They actually turned a game about playing with teammates and trying to preserve each other’s lives while trying to defeat the enemy team to “WOOHOO MY TEAMMATES DIED! NOW I CAN OVERCHARGE AND POP THE FUCK OFF 1VS3!”

Battlerite still has the best Moba-esque combat imo.

Played with my friends when it was F2P really really enjoyed it. Sadly they couldn't keep up. Wish they wpuld release Battlerite 2.

The duels in this game where quite a thrill, too bad the devs killed it with bad decisions, hopefully they learned their lesson and if they get to make Battlerite 2 it won't suffer the same fate.

Man, I’ll always be mad this game wasn’t the League killer because it was good enough to be. Battlerite is legit the only MOBA I’ve ever loved, it was so so *so* good.

I wonder if Battlerite would have lasted longer if it was on the Switch. It's control scheme would work on a controller and there's a ton of the casual audience they needed.

Bro I loved this game and Bloodline champions so much. I really want a new game to fill its place. Only reason I'll go back to video games.

You forgot to say that the game is still kinda playable, for a regular player the queue can go for a max 3 to 4 mins, but its usually below 2 mins (I know that's kinda sad) However, it is very fun to play!

I didn't really think of some of what you said before. It's been the same way in their other games. In Bloodline Champions and Dead Island: Epidemic, both games were really sink or swim. You either learn how to connect with everything or you end up not really having any fun. It felt amazing playing it, but I saw my friends fall away very quickly from BLC.

I loved Dead Island Epidemic - I played it so much for that open beta period and had high hopes for it.

Battlerite felt like playing Smash 3 v 3, but the devs didnt did much to motivate players, or building a community. But it felt extreme satisfying to play support in a premade team!

The fact that the community wanted them to put new game modes in and yet they completely disregarded it... unforgivable. Not to mention splitting the community into two different games.

Gigantic, a MOBA with amazing visuals, with a mix of more 3rd person view instead of being top down. I hope you guys can make a video on it!

Yeah, I bought this game in early access, really liked it, played with friends, a lot of fun. But for me it was when they released the BR as separated game and focused on it more than on their main game, lack of content and maps.. :(

I played this before it became -Battlerite "ROYALE"- Fortnite hipnotyzed the gaming developing meta between 2018-2020///

I liked the idea of a "Pure micro, only hardcore gamer game" but I honestly think the macro strategy that other MOBA games like League and DOTA have adds a huge depth that Battlerite just lacked.

Never played Battlerite but hearing what they did to the Battle royal mode actually hurted a bit

i enjoyed Battlerite, wouldn't have minded seeing it go at least a little farther. It didn't really seem to get out of beta. I heard about the battle royal version but didn't realize they did the ol' switcheroo with the price.

i remember watching sp4zie play this. what a good idea for a game, im sad it didnt last

This is one of my all time favorite games. I wish that it was still alive

If you're intrested in the moba br genre go check out Eternal Return: Black Survival on Steam. Plays like league.

What i read is: "Hey guys!! Since everyone looks soo excited to that batttle royale mode, looks Like a great way to milk everyone... Soo lets realease as a separated game!!!! But dont worry!!! To all the fans who supported us buying the early acess of battlerite... We gonna GIVE FOR U AS A THANKS ACESS TO...... a 20% discount (lol) now buy that too, thankssss!!!

Battlerite royale is my favorite online game of all time. Sometimes I still log in to kill a lobby full of bots, it's kinda sad. The devs did 3 big mistakes that made the game die so fast. 1. Should've been f2p from the beginning. The whole battlerite playerbase felt betrayed. 2. Bad marketing. I bet 99% of the whole gamer world never heard of this game. 3. Lazy game studio. Instead of adding new things to this game they went on holiday for a couple months after the release. Nowadays your game has to consistently develop to be successful longterm. They did some things like halloween or winter event, but by far not enough. I still almost had a 1000 hours of fun and tears in this beautiful game and I hope SLS will do better in their next game.

As the top tournament organizer for the game, PentaStealz, it began to die when they went for the money grab of royale. As a business man I agreed on decision because the main game was not noob friendly like royale. I hoped the gamble was worth the risk like SLS did. Unfortunately it wasn't, due to lack of content building up to Royale which we were unaware of due to poor communication the game began to die despite the communities best efforts. Thanks for bringing the game to my RU-vid algorithm ❤️❤️❤️ And yes, as scarra said. Battlerite is for real gamers, like real fucking gamers.

This just feels like the custom map warlocks from warcraft 3 and/or glaive masters also from warcraft 3

Battlerite Royale was SO good, I hate that it wasn't a massive hit, but they shouldn't have launched it seperately. I would do terrible things for a revival of that game.

I have 1000h in this game, it was my favourite multiplayer game. It's hard to call this game a MOBA tbh, it's very unique.

God I loved Battlerite. The first moba I tried every hero and it felt like playing chess. Baiting the escape skill, knowing when to "all in", it felt just great. When Royale popped up everything went down so fast. I really don't get, why developers feel the need to instantly have E-sports going on. Why not taking it slow and create an ingame tournament mode first, instead of burning the money for useless stuff and price pools? I have no interest in any price pools, because I know that I will never ever get any of it. And calling Sirius a support is an insult! Ah, the only game where you could win in competitive with 3 "supports", it was amazing!

I'm still sad bloodline champions didn't take off, played A LOT of it back in the game and it slapped. Kinda wish it had a small community still but seems very dead.

I miss battlerite. I really wished it had better retention - since it is truly fun. But yeah definitely should've done more game modes in the actual game.

Battlerite was such a good game. It took everything that was fun about games like League of Legends, made it better and left out all the bad stuff. I would still play it today if it wasn't dead.

I remember playing it all the way back in 2016 and feeling completely lost as to what the fuck I was supposed to do. And it's not even about winning, just feeling accomplished about having done anything. Even with a decent winrate (back then the game was still fresh, so matchmaking wasn't an issue) it still felt like I was pressing buttons randomly as skills went off cooldown and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't and I had no fucking clue how you're supposed to actually improve at the game to play it properly. It felt like you needed an attention span of a god, tracking not just your own cooldown skills (of which you have 7), but also everyone else's (2 teammates and 3 enemies, so... 42 cooldown timers!), and it was a lot more about remembering the timers than it was about any kind of strategy, moment-to-moment decision making or mechanical execution.

Ive been wanting to play this game since it got announced but I never had a pc till like 2 months ago. I got the game and some days you don’t find matches. I didnt mess with the br one that much but it was pretty cool. What i would of liked for modes, i would of put br in the battle rite game and also made an overwatch/paladins type mode. Like push a cart to the enemy zone type or capture zones from overwatch. It sucks that i just got a pc cause i really enjoy the game and try to play it frequently.