It’s supposed to be excellent
A bunch of people have hadkind thingsto say aboutBattlerite, the team-based arena brawler from Stunlock Studios. And would you look at that! It has afree weekend event on Steam right now.
The idea was to strip down the MOBA experience, whittling away concepts like lanes and creeps to focus instead on harrowing, fast-paced team fights, and that concept has resonated with players.Battleritehas done very well for itself on Steam despite being in Early Access, with 400,000+ copies sold and 95% positive user reviews. I’m not so sure a weekend is long enough to get a true sense of the ins and outs of a meta-heavy game like this, but it’ll certainly give you an impression.
Besides the free-play weekend promo, which is live now, there is also a discount available on the full it’s-yours-for-good version. It’s marked down to $14.99 (that’s 25% off) until Monday, December 5. Worth noting: the finalBattleritewill be free-to-play, once Early Access is over, but if you pay now you’re getting “all champions and all future champions as well as a unique founder avatar and title.”
Similar to how Blizzard hooked me onHeroes of the Stormby streamlining some of the tried-and-true aspects of MOBAs that I didn’treallycare for, I think this could click with me even more.
