Bellus Battle

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Not the duck game this city needs but the one it deserves

Bellus Battle is a lighthearted multiplayer arena game that embraces chaos rather than complicated competitive mechanics. Developed and published by Hängagubbe studio AB, it places cute animal characters into compact battlegrounds filled with dangerous weapons and asks everyone to fight until only one competitor remains. Its approachable concept makes the game easy to understand within minutes, while the combination of unpredictable weapons, changing arenas, and multiplayer rivalry gives individual matches a playful personality. The basic structure revolves around short rounds. Players enter an arena, scramble for useful equipment, attack their opponents, and attempt to become the final survivor. Victory awards points before the competition moves to another battlefield, with the overall match continuing until somebody reaches the required score. This format keeps defeats from feeling too punishing because losing one round does not necessarily decide the entire contest. A player who performs poorly early on can recover during later stages, while whoever takes an early lead quickly becomes the person everyone else wants to eliminate. Weapons provide much of the game's entertainment…

Very fun game!

Bellus Battle is a really fun little local multiplayer game, and I liked how quickly it gets to the chaos. The setup is simple because I am controlling a cute animal in an arena and trying to be the last one standing. The combination of adorable characters and ridiculous weapons gives the whole thing a playful atmosphere that makes it easy to jump into. The combat is built around picking up weapons scattered around the arena and using them against everyone else. Shotguns, rail guns, bombs, lightning attacks and portal weapons all give me different ways to cause trouble. I enjoyed the variety because finding a new weapon can completely change how I approach a round. The arena design also helps keep the matches moving. Different stages give me different spaces to fight in, and I liked having to think about where I am standing instead of simply focusing on the nearest opponent. The round based structure makes the matches feel quick, which works especially well for a party game where I can jump straight into another round after losing. The customization is a nice little extra too. I can give my animal different hats, including some deliberately silly choices, and I think that fits t…

[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] This 2.5D arena "party brawler" (think Super Smash Bros ripoff, but on PC instead of consoles) is from a fledgeling and failed game development studio from Sweden, where apparently they don't know the difference between gaming PCs and the Nintendo Wii. So you (and nobody else, this has no players and if you ask your friends to play crap like this you soon won't have any friends) do some platforming and bash each other with hammers or something. I don't know. It's bad. "Bellus Battle" is a failed PvP game. Why is it dead? It's time for a video game autopsy! [i]Almost every PvP exclusive game on Steam fails.[/i] Only a tiny proportion of them "go viral". This game failed for many of the same reasons those others fail. The chief of which is the developer thinking that their game will "go viral" without actually creating any reason for it do so. PvP games face extreme competition, PvP gamers have plenty to choose from and they gravitate to where all the other players are. This ga…