Totally Accurate Battlegrounds & LIRIK Draw 30k+ Viewers In First Few Hours
By Ford James ·
Brand new battle royale game Totally Accurate Battlegrounds has blown up on Twitch thanks to LIRIK, and if you download the game within its first 100 hours, you get it completely free.
You’d be forgiven if you haven’t heard about Totally Accurate Battlegrounds (TABG) yet. It released today to little fanfare, but has swiftly risen up the ranks of Twitch with over 30,000 people watching as of 1pm EDT on June 6.
As you can tell from the name, the game doesn’t take itself too seriously. Developed by Landfall, it parodies the immensely popular battle royale games like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds that have taken the gaming world by storm over the last year. The Steam description tells it best:
“Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is a parody of the Battle Royale genre. A bunch of physics-based weirdos fight it out on an island, everything is silly and possibly a bit buggy.”
Check out this clip from Twitch streamer Lirik below to see what the game has in store:
This light-hearted take on the battle royale genre has clearly won over people’s hearts, as Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is currently sat with 2,423 Very Positive reviews on Steam, and the amount of Twitch viewers is steadily climbing. If you’re interested in playing the game yourself, downloading it within the first 100 hours means you get the game completely for free. Here’s a link to the Steam store page.
Beware though, as the game is currently suffering from immense server strain due to its popularity. Landfall have tweeted that they’re working on fixing it, so just hold on tight and they should no doubt be fixed soon.
Hi Everyone! We are working very hard on fixing the TABG server issues. The game received a lot more attention than we could ever hope or plan for and it has put a lot of strain on our servers. We're working non-stop to make sure you can play it as soon as possible! :)
— Landfall (@LandfallGames) June 6, 2018
Hopefully this is just the start of more battle royale parodies. If you’re keen for more battle royale news, the bouncer trap has been re-added to Fortnite, but loot llamas have received a severe nerf.
(Header image courtesy of Landfall.)