Snowboards and guns: Tencent’s snowy battle royale debuts on Steam

It’s like PUBG, except you can snowboard, mountaineer or hang-glide (and kill people)

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Snowboards and guns: Tencent’s snowy battle royale debuts on Steam

Josh Ye

Published: 7:21pm, 13 Sep 2018Updated: 8:39am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

If you are growing weary of PUBG, you might find Tencent’s soon-to-be-released Ring of Elysium refreshing.

The free-to-play game, scheduled for early access on Steam on September 20, allows you to snowboard, mountaineer or hang-glide... while you try to stay alive in a game of battle royale.

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Ring of Elysium is set on a snowy vacation resort popular with tourists. But a massive snowstorm is moving in, and the last rescue chopper can only take four passengers.

How do you decide who gets one of those precious seats? Well, here’s where the battle royale bit comes in: You have to slaughter everyone else to ensure your place on the rescue chopper to safety. (And then to prison, I guess?)

I’m not gonna lie, that looks pretty fun. The setting may be bizarre, but it’s basically an excuse to get people running around shooting each other while snowboarding or hang gliding. And if it’s as fun as it looks, I’m OK with that.

While it’s not widely known, Ring of Elysium has in fact been in the pipeline since November last year. Judging from online Twitch streams, the game is very much in line with what’s shown in the video.