Last month, after a series of rumours and leaks, Hi-Rez Studios released the Realm Royale Founder's Pack on the Switch eShop. This paid version of the game gave Nintendo owners a helping hand with additional goodies and essentially early access ahead of its free-to-play launch on the system.
If you are one of the individuals who has been holding out for the game's free release on the Switch, you'll be pleased to hear this version is now downloadable from the eShop in both North America and Europe. All up, you'll need 2.5GB of free space to enjoy this fantasy battle royale on your own system.
For anyone who hasn't heard about Realm Royale before, it's a class-based game where a large number of players fight to be the last individual or team standing on a battlefield. The classes put a unique spin on the popular genre – allowing each player to unlock different abilities and weapons, and then work towards special end goals over the duration of a match. You're even able to craft your own weapons. Take a look at the video below to get a better idea of what you can expect:
You can also read our in-depth feature with the game's lead designer James Horgan, executive producer Mick Larkins and brand director Alex Cantatore.
Will you be downloading Realm Royale on the Switch? Tell us below.
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This game is amazing by far the best Battle Royale I have ever played! If you want to try something different and not Fortnite...You should definitely give Realm a try!
This is a really good BR game, I like that I don't have to build anything.
Neat, I’ll probably give it a try tomorrow. I’ve not touched Fortnite in awhile since my friends got addicted to BotW again.
Another game where I can spend 20 minutes looking for guns only to get sniped and do it all over again?
Yeah, I am good.
I was way more into this BR game then fortnite and pubg. I found it had its own charm. It had way less of a skill ceiling and was just a good time. Fortnite just didn’t click with me. From the stupid dances and the constant need to buy every dam cosmetic just to be cool like all the other basement dwellers...nope..plus don’t get me started on the building part. I play way to many games on all different platforms and I just don’t have time to play games like fortnite every freaking time I want to game. It reminded me of halo. Sure it’s an awesome FPS but you literally have to play that game everyday and if you take a few days off and come back..you think maybe everyone just got really good and you suck now or could it be the dreaded quick rust. Anyways...realm Royale is easy to jump in and have a lot of fun quickly. Plus I don’t see to many people jacked up on cosmetics like I did when I played fortnite.
I've been enjoying this game MUCH more than Fortnite. I hated building in Fortnite and I'm glad I don't have to build anything here. I would definitely recomend it.
The opening logos are weird. It made me feel like the government was using it to spy on me
Oh look another Battle Royale game. Come on people enough is enough already It's time to move on.
@Heavyarms55 exactly the way I feel. I gave fortnite a decent shot but I just never found myself having much fun. I will give it that it’s better in a party but overall not my thing.
@ALinkttPresent Does it say Tencent?
@dacangri12 I would love to see the list of the other Battle Royale games you have played to qualify your statement.
All of them. PUBG, Fortnite, Apex, Black Ops...None them I liked except Realm.
@Jonnyblond translation. I suck at games and since only awful gamers play Realm Royale I win therefore its fun.
I’m still waiting for some PUBG mobile to Switch or any game similar to it
Woo hoo! Time to snipe with magic!
Why are people so bad at understanding that everyone has different tastes. Just because you don't enjoy something doesn't mean you have to hate on it or people that do.
@Kody127 Thought it was just me but that "building aspect" is just silly, it's so monotonous, anyway the Fortnite bubble has burst already as Twitch streaming numbers have declined massively, but I don't doubt that there gonna push it still as hard as possible.
@Tasuki I hear u loud and clear but unfortunately the public will decide on that, as long as there is an appetite and an audience it's gonna be "pushed" onto us. You say "move on" but the question is "to what?", innovation and originality is thin on the ground just now in the gaming industry...I mean how many more "zombie" themed games or games with "dungeons" do we have 2 endure in our lifetime...The only area where "originality" might exist could be in the VR arena...
Before : I will download it when it's free
Now : It's free. I will download it if they are paying me to play.
I'm on the fortnite train, when I want some online competition game, which I like a lot. This seems to be less fun for me.
After playing this I’m confused as to why Fortnite runs and plays the way it does on Switch. This game is quite similar graphically and runs far better and looks much cleaner. Pretty obvious Fortnite was a lazy port job.
I don't personally have a problem with more battle royale games, but man does that look like Fortnite! You think they could have tried to distinguish themselves a little more...
@FiveDigitLP It looks like Fortnite, not gonna lie that's what Hi-Rez makes is clones of other popular games. But honestly this game plays a lot diffently than Fortnite. They definitely distinguish themselves through the gameplay and mechanics a lot better than other battle royale games in my opinion.
@Heavyarms55 I've played thousands of games of RR, you get a gun in seconds of landing, there are chests everywhere, and they almost always have guns. You usually have to shard the ones you don't want to craft legendary and Epic weapons so being outclassed right away is not usually an issue.
@Jonnyblond keep it classy
Classy is what I’m all about babydoll. Kisses and hugs.
Well, I don't really trust HiRez, I still play Paladins from time to time but Realm Royale has been deserted so now the game is filled with bots and there's a good bunch of problems so eh
Could be pretty funny for a while but like I still don't understand how people would prefer to spend more time on Paladins rather than Overwatch (well, I know some who told me that I've figured out that they just didn't even tried Overwatch), I can't really think about people playing Fortnite and Realm Royale and choosing to spend more time on a less polished, more buggy ... game. It's just funny to change the rules sometimes and play a similar game, but I can't spend the majority of my gaming hours on a HiRez game, I just can't.
And even if you don't like Fortnite, there's just too many BR games (well, at least if you have a Switch and a PC), Apex Legends is by far the best BR ever released imo
"The virginity is strong in this one. Stupidity these days."
It's funny considering the profile picture lmao but hey, stupidity these days. Always bringing up virginity when this has nothing to do lol. Strange concept of "classiness"
@ALinkttPresent the govt uses your cell phone for that. Lol
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