From the guys of Cyanide & Happiness, we get Rapture Rejects! A battle royale that is just as crazy as it sounds.



Rapture Rejects is from the guys of Explosm.net, AKA the minds behind the infamous webcomic we see all the time: Cyanide & Happiness. With classic jokes and humor like a great wine that has turned to acid over the years. I love their jokes, their sense of humor, and when I heard they were going to release a game I got excited!

But alas, perfection is still far away, and I found myself playing a battle royale. I am not saying it is a bad game because it is a battle royale. Oh no, the problem is:

I suck at them. I managed to score 5th place in that one, though. Good shot there, KINGQUACK.

Still, that didn’t deter me from trying Rapture Rejects and giving it my best. You see, let me give you all a quick rundown of the game.

Being the Best to Get a Spot in Heaven

You see, in Rapture Rejects, you take the role of one of the many rejects who are left on Earth. The last one standing will get a spot in Heaven with God, with fondue and back massages for all eternity. A fitting prize befitting a great champion in the arts of surviving. So, how do you outlive the others? By ending them, of course!

So you go around the city, a city that is fastly losing terrain to hellfire as the rapture consumes all. Those small antennae on the map are lookout points. By approaching one you can get a view from afar of the general area around you. That sad face on the map is your character. And that circle? It’s the impending circle of the Rapture that closes in every minute at a fast pace. By the 5-minute mark, you will find yourself trapped with the others in the last deathmatch.

There are only 12 players at a time in the deathmatch, so it all comes down to running and finding the best weaponry and healing items. Sometimes God gets bored and will drop great weapons that get marked on the map. That chest you see there is one of his gifts. Usually, those spots become immediate combat zones, unless they are outside in the rapture where you will take quite a lot of damage if you try to retrieve them. But the stuff in them is really good, so it is often worth the risk.

It’s a simple game: go run, get weapons, kill the others. A simple formula that always ends by the 6th minute. This mostly causes the arena gets so small that someone must kill the others.

Rapture Rejects also has a big pool of cosmetic options to decorate your character, and as you progress, you get tickets to spend and offer them to God in the best game of all!

Sinners &Winners! You can see that God is there reclaiming my hundred tickets to give a prize.

He gave me a jersey from the Butsharks. A proper reward for my hard work.

Thoughts

Well, Rapture Rejects is fun, it’s simple, and it’s really, really short. So if you like battle royale games and you want the fast-paced experience that comes with a small map, well, Rapture Rejects might be your best choice. It is really hard for a match to last more than six minutes. Simple, clear, and to the point, it’s you vs another eleven rejects of Heaven.

While I honestly suck at battle royale games, I always give them a try just to see if I can get better at them. Am I going to try Rapture Rejects again? Surely yes, mostly because it is so short that I can replay it a few times without losing too much time. It’s a fun game, and one I do think is worth trying out, but it might not be the option for battle royale purists who need to finish ninety-nine people to feel the rush. But hey, this is a mini battle designed by comedians. Simple, to the point, and just the right amount of nuts.