Ring of Elysium is more interesting than Call of Duty’s battle royale

The inevitable battle royale gold rush is upon us. Developer Treyarch tested its Blackout battle royale for Call of Duty last week. Now, Chinese megaconglomerate Tencent has launched Ring of Elysium. This last playe-standing shooter is available now for free on Steam. It shares many battle royale elements with its contemporaries, but it has a lot of twists as well. That’s why I continue to find Ring of Elysium more exciting than the prospect of Blackout or any other upcoming take on this powerhouse genre.

Like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or Fortnite, Ring of Elysium is about finding good loot to improve your chances of survival against other players in a massive open-world map. But Tencent changes this in a few key ways.