The 80s Battle Royale shooter Radical Heights received surprising support from BR competitor Fortnite. Even if this wasn’t entirely intentional. A server outage caused the spotlight to shift. This impacted a game that some had already written off as a flop.
Radical Heights is the new hope from Boss Key Productions. This is the studio that is also responsible for the low-gravity shooter LawBreakers. With Radical Heights, the team now wants to jump on the Battle Royale hype train and take off. And for the launch, they got a little help from Fortnite.
Radical Heights Already Labeled a Flop
The release in “Extreme Early Access” of Radical Heights was on April 10 on Steam. You can now download the game for free there. After the disappointing past of LawBreakers, which is now supposed to become a F2P game, the developers’ hopes now rest on this new BR shooter in 80s style.
In doing so, the game has to compete against big players like Fortnite or PUBG – and that’s tough. Moreover, Radical Heights had already been written off as a flop by some parts of the gaming community even before its release. The first news about the game featured headlines like: “It has hardly more players than LawBreakers, even though it’s free-to-play from the start!”
The Game Needed a Miracle, and It Came
It seemed like Radical Heights needed a miracle! And exactly this miracle came: in the form of a emergency maintenance that Fortnite conducted on April 12.
Suddenly in the morning, it was said: Emergency maintenance is underway, it might take a while. And that turned into many long hours, during which fans couldn’t play their favorite game or watch it in livestream. An alternative had to be found. And for some streamers, Radical Heights came at just the right time.
Slowly but surely, the game climbed up the rankings on the livestreaming platform Twitch.TV, until it finally had the most viewers and left all other games behind. As Gamestar reports, over 200,000 people were watching Radical Heights games on Twitch at the same time. This was also due to the fact that the Fortnite streaming giant “Ninja” took an interest in the new game.
Now Radical Heights just has to carry the momentum from April 12 and build on it. Whether it can withstand over the long term will be observed in the coming weeks.
Radical Heights is Battle Royale in the flashy style of the 80s with confetti
