Spellbreak Will Be F2P At Launch!
Source: PlaySpellbreak.com
In a not so surprising announcement, Spellbreak is going free to play!
Yes, yes, we just had an article about the OTHER battle royale Hyperscape, I promise that we aren’t turning into a BR news feed!
Spellbreak has some pretty amazing visuals and mechanics, even if the basic BR formula remains unchanged. Deploy to the map, find gear, be the last squad/person standing; rinse and repeat. I was lucky enough to get an alpha test key, and have been playing in the beta as well, and the game is getting very impressive. Gameplay is crisp and satisfying, and you really feel like a badass mage, slinging spells and flying through the air as you exile opponents. There are certainly still balance issues to deal with, but it’s undeniably fun. I think my biggest gripe is the mana bar (used for casting your primary spells) is the same resource used for jumping and floating. I really don’t like having movement restricted by how much damage I’m doing, but then again, that’s where the secondary spells and runes come in (they don’t use mana), so maybe I’m just being a whiny casual.
Personally, I love the idea of an awesome battlemage game, although I’m unsure about making it a BR only game. Going free to play as well as having crossplay across ALL platforms at launch is a major plus, but BR is a crowded landscape, and I think the kind of audience that Spellbreak would appeal to would LOVE to see this as some kind of MMO. Maybe there are plans to expand into that in the future, because this is one original IP that I think could last a long time.
See the announcement trailer here!