Release Date: November 8, 2017
Platform: Steam(PC), Xbox(2018)
Developer: Stunlock Studios
Price: Free (Buy all characters, present and future, for $30)
Launch Trailer
What's Battlerite?
Battlerite is a MOBA-esque arena brawler and the spiritual successor to Bloodline Champions, both of which were created by the same developer, Stunlock Studios. In fact, Battlerite is such a spiritual successor, that a number of characters in Battlerite are directly based off characters from Bloodline Champions.
Ok. So what's the hook?
What differentiates Battlerite from traditional MOBAs like League/Dota/Heroes is that, unlike all of those games, Battlerite's primary 2v2 and 3v3 modes do not have: creeps, towers, lanes, experience, gold, items or bosses. Rather, what Battlerite has in common with those games is a strong emphasis on mouse-based skill-shots and a familiar overhead camera view. Otherwise, the basic structure of Battlerite has more in common with teambased arena fighters like Power Stone, Anarchy Reigns or even Virtual On wherein a team of Champions fight each other to the death across multiple rounds until one team is left standing. There are health and energy picks ups strewn across the arenas, a core that periodically spawns in the middle of the map that both teams have to fight over for health/energy, and a circle that slowly encloses each arena as rounds wane, but at the end of the day, Battlerite is pure teamfighting.
It's worth noting that Stunlock has added an early work-in-progress mode that's much more objective orientated where teams fight to defeat each other's core(sound familiar?), but so far at least, this seems to be an early side mode.
Game Modes:
2v2, 3v3 - Casual
2v2, 3v3 - Ranked
Battlegrounds(The work-in-progress objective mode)
Current and future roster:
(The green tree man there is Thorn and he launched today with the game.)
Hey are there cool Ultimates in this game?
ARE THERE
This game has a very original and unique name.
Yeah it does.
