After Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite made battle royale the biggest genre in online games, countless competitors sprung out only to find they were no match for the games at the top. Now that the competition has thinned out, a new battle royale is getting a weekend-long playtest ahead of its launch later this year, and it might just be carving out a unique enough niche to find an audience all of its own.
Scramble Knights Royale was announced during the 2025 Day of the Devs: Game Awards Edition, showing off its player-versus-player gameplay and claymation-inspired art style. Where most battle royale games take the form of first-person shooters, Scramble Knight Royale instead takes after top-down RPGs like The Legend of Zelda, putting a new twist on a genre in need of some innovation.
