PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Games Like Rust If You’re Looking for Something Similar
Coming from the unlikeliest of starts, PUBG rose to prominence for its simple yet effective premise: you’re dropped onto an island, and you’ll have to kill everyone who stands in your way. Inspired by the film Battle Royale, it has more than a few similarities with the dystopian world envisaged by Koushun Takami. Not quite as many Japanese schoolchildren ruthlessly murdering one another, unless you happen upon a strangely specific server.
PUBG is more than a little rough around the edges (completely understandable considering its origins as the brainchild of a lone modder), but its accessibility and ambition create an atmosphere that is all of its own. Right from the word go, you’re faced with a decision: at which point should you jump from the plane and begin the battle? You’ll have to work it out quickly enough that your opponents won’t get too much of a head start, but carefully enough to avoid landing somewhere silly like in the ocean.
As with Rust, your interactions with others can go in multiple directions. Will you forge a temporary alliance with an unknown entity? Can they really be trusted, or are you destined to have them betray you, squatting over your prone corpse in an obscene display? The risk is always there.
