Ridiculous new Battle Royale game Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is doing incredibly well for itself, considering it started life as an April Fool's joke.

TABG (as it shall be known from here on out), tasks players with roaming around a sprawling open-world map, hoovering up weapons and gunning down opponents until there's no one else left alive. So far so familiar - but TABG stands apart from its peers thanks to the low-poly silliness it's inherited from developer Landfall's Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, chiefly in the form of its preposterous, wibbly-wobbly physics.

In TABG, the very serious business of killing everyone in sight is made rather more ridiculous as limbs flail uncontrollably, bodies launch at improbable speeds, and weapons recoil enough to jolt you backward, usually in gape-mouthed surprise. It's supremely daft, and a lot of players seem to have taken to it for that very reason - TABG is currently riding high as the 18th most popular game on Steam, with over 27,000 concurrent players.

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