Five new Battle Royale games that aren't PUBG or Fortnite

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3. SOS

SOS has a few things in common with PUBG, but whereas a lot of games in the battle royale genre stick slavishly to Brendan Greene's formula and risk only small tweaks, Outpost Games' title very much walks to its own beat. The idea is that you're one of 16 people taking part in a fictional reality TV show called SOS; between you someone must retrieve a relic, and only three of you can then make it out on the chopper. There's no encroaching circle of death, either. What really sets SOS apart, however, is its focus on voice communications and streaming. The idea here isn't that you win just by surviving - you also need to entertain, with your gameplay broadcast on Twitch and the number of viewers you accrue contributing to your success or failure. The developer hopes contestants will become flamboyant role-players, using wit, bravado and even a bit of social engineering to come out on top. It reminds us of the good old early days of DayZ, where the stories players emerged with were just as often about a gunfight that didn't happen as one that did. Color us interested.

4. Survival Games

Hmm. This one reminds us of something. A game of some sort. Can't put our finger on it. Minceraft? Something like that? Ah well. Survival Games is a 64-player battle royale shooter with elements of... procedurally generated Lego-style crafting titles... about it. One big point of differentiation here is dynamic environments. No more waiting months for Brendan and the boys to get the desert map ready for you - every time you load up Survival Games you'll be treading virgin turf - while environments appear to be vaguely destructible and there's a hunt-and-craft aspect as well. You can even lay down bear-traps to snap at your opponents' heels. Minecraft! That's the one. Whatever happened to that, eh?

5. Europa

Not content with bagging the exclusive rights to PUBG on mobile, Tencent Games is already banging out a high-end PC battle royale game, and the in-game footage from the first trailer is pretty tantalizing. The big difference here is destructible environments - you can ram Humvees through walls to crush unsuspecting opponents, drop pipes on players in a dockyard loading area, and generally punch holes through the scenery wherever you please. There are plenty of vehicles on display too, including speedboats. The only catch is that we have no idea if Europa will be released outside China - there's currently no English-language Steam page, and if Tencent succeeds in its attempts to acquire Bluehole, then it may prefer to let the original PUBG be the PUBG everywhere else.

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