It's so much more satisfying to be the last one standing when you've had to beat several far more heavily armed and armoured tanks than yourself to get there. But I prefer to completely ignore all that. There's a whole little meta-progression system going on as well, where you can use the money you collect in each game to kit yourself out with extra weapons and perks like bonus health and damage for your next match. Over the course of a few minutes, the landscape becomes completely unique, mere pockets of landmass upon which tanks must perch and climb to avoid the ever-rising water level that acts as the game's closing border. The worlds may be simple, but that's because they're meant to be a canvas for the crazy warfare that ensues. Shoot a nuke or a cluster missile at a nearby wall, and suddenly it's unrecognisable. Shoot a rocket into the ground and it'll eat a huge chunk out of the terrain. But there's a good reason: like the worlds of Worms, the terrain here is completely destructible. Unlike other battle royales, there's very little sense of care having gone into the creation of these maps. The colourful cartoony maps of Rocket Bot Royale should be instantly familiar to anyone who's ever played a Worms game. It took a whole team of first responders to unclench my arsecheeks after this one. Here's one such play I made earlier that scored me a triple-kill. String together these different weapons appropriately, and you can pull off some magnificent plays that will make you feel nothing short of godly. There's a cluster missile, a nuke that provides a much larger explosion, a homing missile, a shield that reflects all weapons for a short time, and quite a few more that I haven't yet come across. There are extra weapon pickups dotted about every map, and more will arrive via Worms-esque air-dropped crates over the course of a game. Yes, it may not look it, but Rocket Bot Royale is a game that heavily rewards skill and clever plays. I'm writing this post only a day after discovering this wonderful game, and I already feel like I've pulled off some spectacular moves thanks to shrewd use of my weaponry to dodge attacks and launch my own.

Should I shoot at the ground to propel myself out of harm's way, or should I shoot back at the enemy tank - or even aim for the enemy rocket itself? Say there's an enemy tank stuck to a nearby wall like a spider, and it shoots a rocket at me. I quickly understood that my rocket ammo was a resource, and to play well I'd have to make split-second decisions about how best to use this resource. It's incredibly straightforward, and every bit as fun as it sounds.Д¬ombining movement and combat into one mouse-click like this is a masterstroke of game design, as far as I'm concerned. You have a constantly replenishing supply of rockets which you can use both to fire at other players, and to propel yourself into the air by shooting at the ground beneath you. Each player controls a tank that can stick to and drive along any surface, even upside down. You and 34 other players drop into the same side-scrolling map filled with random chunks of destructible terrain. Rocket Bot Royale is a very simple 2D battle royale, with each match taking less than 5 minutes to play. I fully expected Rocket Bot Royale to be left at the bottom of my most played games on Steam list after a few weeks, but after a few hours of play, I'm starting to think eventually it might arrive at the top. I'll happily bulk out my Steam library with reams of half-baked ideas and clunky combat systems in the hopes of finding the next big time-sink for me and my squadmates to get lost in over the next several months. But goodness me, is there more going on here than meets the eye.ДЄs I've made abundantly clear ever since I joined RPS, battle royales are my jam. It looks like it's probably not worth anyone's time except schoolkids playing on computers in the IT department during their lunch breaks. It looks like a browser-based game, and it is. I've given myself the span of a fairly short post to try and convince you, dear reader, to give Rocket Bot Royale a shot. I really have my work cut out for me with this one.

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