Best Battle Royale games that will test your skills

This battle royale sees just 12 players take to the bayous of New Orleans. It may not sound like much, but the goal here isn’t always to kill your opponents. Instead, you need to explore the map and look for clues that will help you track down a terrifying monster who lurks on the map. Your job is to kill that monster, get the loot from them and get out. Alternatively, you could let everyone else do the hard work and then ambush them as they try to escape, but what dirty tactics you employ is none of our business.

Minecraft Hunger Games

You can’t talk about battle royales without talking about one of the game modes that helped innovate and popularize the genre. While modded DayZ servers were doing similar things around this time, it’s the Minecraft Survival Games servers that made the desire for a game like this clear. While there are more complex Minecraft PvP modes out there now, this is still good for a classic game every now and then.

Naraka: Bladepoint

A few battle royales have popped up that focus melee combat, but none of them have stuck around aside from Bladepoint. While it has it's flaws, there is still a decently-sized playerbase that loves challenging people to samurai duels in this free-to-play battle royale that often comes down to the wire.

Game of Bombs

This is something a little different, as it's a free game you can play in your browser.

Bomberman is a somewhat niche title, but one that you'll find addictive if you've never tried it before. You walk around on a grid-based map and place bombs that explode along the grid - if you get caught by an explosion, you die. It's that simple, but it's endlessly fun with all sorts of weird upgrades and massive maps full of players.

PUBG Battlegrounds

Aside from the fact that the name change now means the game is called “Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds Battlegrounds”, PUBG is still going strong all these years later. Sprouting from a DayZ mod that helped kickstart the genre, PUBG was the first battle royale game to reach the amazing heights the genre has been experiencing for the past five years. It digs into the realism of gunplay a little more than most battle royales, so it continues to be a favorite for many.

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

Non-combat battle royales aren't easy to come by, but Fall Guys is undoubtedly the best. Try to outlast all your opponents in a gauntlet of Wipeout-style minigames that will test your platforming, puzzle-solving, and teamwork skills in a race for the crown.

Call of Duty: Warzone

Call of Duty getting in on the battle royale action was only a matter of time, and no one was surprised when Warzone released – almost immediately becoming one of the kings of the genre. It had all of the features people had come to expect from a battle royale but added that nice layer of CoD polish. It expanded the number of players in a match, gave us more complex maps, and surprisingly intricate gunplay.

Tetris 99

A change of pace from shooting, if you didn't know this game existed then you are missing out. Tetris is easily one of the best puzzle games of all time and now you can play it competitively against 98 other people. In this chaotic version of the iconic game, you'll be placing pieces as fast as you can while other players use their lines to attack you with trash blocks. It gets surprisingly intense very quickly and you don't regret trying it out.

Apex Legends

This fast-paced shooter battle royale rose up to be a titan of the genre out of nowhere to a certain extent, but it quickly became solidified in that upper-echelon of live-service games that will probably never die thanks to how big the player base continues to be, even all these years since it's launch. The interplay between all the characters and their abilities mixed with a smaller battle royale concept makes for an endlessly fun and action-packed experience.

Fortnite

Like it or not, Fortnite is the game most people think of when you mention battle royale games. Many people like to look down on it thanks to its popularity – especially with younger audiences – but the truth is it's arguably the best at the battle royale fundamentals. Add on the fact that it'll eventually collaborate with every brand under the sun and you have a great roster of constantly rotating weapons, items, and skins from all sorts of other IP.