Super People is only known by a few players in this country. Nevertheless, the game regularly has more players on Steam than many of the most famous names in the shooter market – even though it is still in a closed beta. MeinMMO tells you what it’s all about.
What is Super People? Super People is a battle royale by the South Korean developer Wonder People. This game is currently developing into a kind of insider tip among shooter fans. In some form, the game clearly borrows from every popular battle royale. In particular, the strong similarities to PUBG: Battlegrounds cannot be denied.
What makes the game special are the titular superheroes: each player controls one of 12 possible ‘Super People’. Each has its own extravagant abilities that can completely turn the gameplay on its head. While this may not always feel fair, it significantly differentiates the game from its major competitor PUBG in some respects.
How well-known is Super People? The biggest streamers – like Shroud, Dr Disrespect, and TimTheTatman – have already played Super People before their large audiences. The player numbers are also impressive:
According to SteamCharts, the game usually has around 20,000 to 30,000 players at the same time, with peak times often reaching around 40,000. At one point, there were even nearly 55,000 players in Super People at the same time (via SteamCharts).
These numbers are impressive for several reasons: The game currently has significantly more players on Steam than Halo Infinite, Battlefield 2042, or the survival hit Valheim. Most players are still relatively unaware of the game, and it is also in a closed beta.
How can I play the game? Super People is currently free to play. It can be expected that it will also be free-to-play upon release. While the game has not been released yet, and there is also no release date, it is already possible to play it through a closed beta.
To be able to participate, you first need to gain access to the closed beta. However, this is quite simple and can be done quickly:
You can request access for Super People on Steam. This happens with just a few clicks on the Steam page of the game. You typically and currently receive access to the closed beta very quickly – many players seem to be able to start just a few minutes after requesting access.
Super People is not original, but plays well
How does Super People play? At first glance, Super People looks almost identical to PUBG. This is also the case upon a second and third glance:
- Like in PUBG, Super People is a battle royale that can be played in either first or third person.
- The weapons available in Super People are almost identical to the guns in PUBG.
- You loot and equip items and weapons just like in PUBG – with a virtually identical menu and the same routines.
- Even when firing, the weapons in Super People feel just like those in PUBG.
These are just the most important gameplay similarities to PUBG. Even players who only know the battle royale classic from videos will discover many more similarities. These include:
- The waiting lobby before a game
- The customization options for your character
- The layout of the map and key locations
- The vehicles
- The mechanics around the ring
- The controls
- The options menu
What makes Super People special? Super People does stand out from PUBG in detail. This is partly because it audaciously borrows from all other battle royale titans. However, Super People does so in a clever way that ensures a good mix:
- Weapons in the game have a rarity value. The rarer the weapon, the better its statistics. This is reminiscent of Fortnite.
- While you can’t build structures like in Fortnite, you still collect materials. With these, you can craft or upgrade your equipment and weapons with a quick crafting animation.
- At the beginning of a round, you are assigned a superhero. This functions like a class from a hero shooter: you have many special abilities, both as active skills with a cooldown and as passive strengths. This is reminiscent of Apex Legends.
- The loadouts in CoD: Warzone also seem to have impressed the developers of Super People. You start each round with a random signature weapon that deals more damage. After a few minutes in a round, a loadout package drops on the map, which contains that weapon among others.
- It seems that Escape from Tarkov or Hunt: Showdown was also played by the developers. In the rounds, you can collect blueprints and money, which you can invest in your characters and their class. While you do not lose your gold at the end of the round, the more you loot, the easier it is to enter a game with the desired loadout.
Even though none of these elements is original: their combination results in a unique mix that significantly shakes up the familiar PUBG gameplay. For example, your signature weapons and class abilities influence which guns you will play with. This gives you an incentive to play weapons that you wouldn’t necessarily like.
How do the superheroes change the gameplay? The most exciting feature on this list is probably the superheroes, which function like classes in other games. Currently, there are 12 in the game, and they significantly and funnily change the gameplay.
At the beginning of each round, a superhero is randomly selected for you. For 100 gold, you can change this selection randomly, and for 500 gold, you can specifically choose whom you want to play as.
The hero “Teleporter” 
The hero “Driver” 
The hero “Marine” 
An overview of all 12 current heroes
One class has an atomic bomb as its ultimate, functioning like a bigger airstrike from CoD Warzone. If you see enemies in a building or behind cover, you can blow them into the next lobby with nuclear firepower.
Another superhero is very agile, can go into cover by sliding, attack aggressively – and then teleport to escape a dangerous situation in a split second.
Surprisingly fun and effective is also the driver class: your ultimate is a golden and armored monster truck, which you can use your skills to jump. This way, you can beam the car to you frequently and use it for safety, as mobile cover, or aggressively run over enemies.
How do the heroes change the gameplay? These heroes currently don’t always feel fair. The balancing can certainly still be adjusted. However, the classes make the serious and slow gameplay of PUBG significantly faster and more relaxed, without making the weapons feel less realistic or fun to play.
The result is an interesting mix that offers much of what is known but alters it noticeably and entertainingly through eccentric additions. Thus, Super People is more than just a simple and shameless PUBG copy when playing.
Players love the gameplay mix
Even if no one calls the game original: players have a lot of fun with Super People and often find it better than the big competition.
- YouTuber jackfrags says that “Super People could be a PUBG knockoff that is better than PUBG” (via YouTube).
- Oopz writes in a comment under this video: “I can already see from watching that this looks much smoother than PUBG. The movement looks very good”.
- MisterNegativity does not live up to his name, writing on reddit: “Super People is going to replace PUBG for me”.
- Higi from the MeinMMO community writes: “I have a lot of fun! Yes, it reminds me of PUBG in terms of setting, but I just don’t care about that. Everyone copies from everyone.”
Super People seems to be on a good path. The current player numbers and early reactions speak for themselves.
What do you think? Are you excited about Super People? Do you want to test the game in the closed beta? Or do you think it doesn’t innovate enough to be interesting? Let us know in the comments.
If you want to play the big inspiration yourself, PUBG is now free to play as of today, January 12th:
On PS4 and PS5, one of the best multiplayer shooters is now free to play
