What Happened To Spellbreak? – Rise and Fall of a Magical Battle Royale

What Happened To Spellbreak? - Rise and Fall of a Magical Battle Royale

What happened to Spellbreak? For a new game to stand out in the battle royale market, game developers needed to take the genre in new directions that hadn’t been explored yet.

Eventually, one indie game company saw how fun and exciting the battle royale genre could be and thought “Could we do a cool, interesting fantasy version of that and make it into something awesome?” Rather than using guns, this team thought that magic was the way forward, and looked to go toe to toe with the giants of the battle royale genre.

This is the rise and fall of Spellbreak.

Date

14/4/2022

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