Landfall, the makers of some other silly games, have put out their latest “April fools joke” called Totally Accurate Battlegrounds. As you can see from the trailer, it’s a less-than-serious take on the Battle Royale genre of games. I’ve put in a very little bit of time on the game and it definitely feels incomplete, but also like exactly what I need as someone who is a bit bored after a few hundred hours in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ oh-so-serious murder simulator.
A FAQ on Landfall’s site explains a bit more about why they decided to make Totally Accurate Battlegrounds:
TABG is an April Fools joke, we’ve done one every year since 2016. We’ve previously combined one of our games with another genre or game. The first year we made Supertruck, a mix between the game Superhot and Clustertruck. Last year we made TABZ which is a mix between TABS and DAY-Z. We spend an enormous amount of lunch breaks and nights playing battle royale games, this is an homage to a genre we love.
Despite their initial promise to not update this game at all, the developers at Landfall have been working on patches for TABG. Which is good, because I couldn’t join a multiplayer server at all a few days ago. Today I checked in again and was able to join servers.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is temporarily free for the next few hours on Windows on Steam, it’ll be $5 after that. The developers have stated they a macOS version is unlikely and that they have no plans for other platforms.
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