Babble Royale mixes Scrabble with PUBG

Boys, where are you dropping? Let’s get on to the good stuff. Scrabble board. Babble RoyaleThe free-to-play word-game ‘Free to Play’ was released on Wednesday via Steam for Mac and Windows PC. It pits 16 people against one another in an asymmetrical game. Scrabble-Just like fighting until one player is left alone.

Babble RoyaleBoth players will be able to see the similarities. Scrabble PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds — there are power-ups on the board for extra points, but also to blow up letter tiles. Money can also be earned, which you can use to purchase stuff in a shop. Not guns per se but vowels and consonants as well as bombs. Here’s how the game works: You drop onto the board and choose a starting position, and then basically make words using randomized letters.

You’ve got to watch out for other players, who are trying to knock you out by connecting their words to yours. You must do the same to take out others. As in any good battle royale game, there’s a deadly hot zone that gets smaller and smaller; if you’re in it, you’ll start to lose health, until you either move into a safe area or perish.

I’ve played ScrabbleAll my life. This can be intense. However, it is possible to be intense. Babble Royale downright makes my heart race — waiting for letters to repopulate and wracking my brain for different vocabulary. ScrabbleIt is an extremely strategic game, however. Babble RoyaleIt takes this to an entirely new level. I’m still figuring out all the little nuances of the game, but was able to jump right in — and have fun — without any instructions.

It’s a free-to-play game, but there are reasons to spend money, too: You can customize your tiles, plus add hats and emotes.

Babble RoyaleIt is in an early stage of development. Developer Everybody House Games, made up of Hey Robot Universal Paperclips developers) said Babble Royale is in “Season Zero,” and that the game will be expanded “with new content and features” in the coming months.