Totally Accurate Battle Simulator leaves Early Access, gets multiplayer

Indie studio Landfall Games is known for April Fool's jokes, even going so far as releasing an entire battle royale game called Totally Accurate Battlegrounds on April Fool's 2018. This year, rather than pranks or japes, Landfall has celebrated the day by pushing ragdoll physics sandbox wargame Totally Accurate Battle Simulator to version 1.0.

As it loses its Early Access tag, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator gains two new factions, two new maps, two new campaigns, and multiplayer—both local and online—a much-requested feature that Landfall had kept secret until now.

Not content with that, Landfall also used April Fool's to announce that Totally Accurate Battlegrounds has gone free-to-play on Steam, and then to release an entirely new game called Rounds. Rounds is a one-v-one platformer duel where the player who loses each round gains an upgrade. There are over 65 of them, including one that turns your weapon into a shotgun and one that just makes you real big (and gives you bonus health). Rounds is also available on Steam.

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Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.