Hopeless Land: Fight for Survival vs The Culling
Hopeless Land: Fight for Survival
Hopeless Land: Fight for Survival is an intense and exhilarating battle royale game that you can play on your mobile phones. Featuring a look that's similar to PUBG, this game will have you battle it out against 99 other survivors, or if you're playing the team-based mode... other teams, in a massive battlefield using a wide variety of strategies, weapons, and even vehicles. In fact, what makes Hopeless Land stands out is that you can do battle on land, via sea, and now, even from the air! Yes, you can actually pilot a helicopter in this game!The timing of this game's release couldn't be more unfortunate, however. Most players would probably be playing the original PUBG rather than a somewhat similar, battle royale game. But, if you are a true connoisseur of battle royale games, you should definitely check it out at least. Of course, for people who love the genre but can't seem to get PUBG Mobile to work on their devices for some reason, you might want to take a look as well. This game does mention that it has low system requirement.
The Culling
The Culling is, in many ways, a potentially great PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds alternative game. In fact, many would say that this is perhaps the very first standalone, battle royale game that is inspired directly from the Hunger Games. As such, you'll expect a pretty brutal arena set on a remote island where players will not only need to explore the foreign land to scavenge for resources but also to craft a wide variety of weapons, traps and tools just so you can ambush your fellow players. Naturally, being battle royale and all, the last man standing will be the victor.Each match can contain up to 16 contestants (and yes, like Hunger Games, The Culling is apparently a game show) and the game lasts for around 20 minutes. There is also a tutorial, a training mode where you play against AI bots, and a special 8-player Lightning Round where players get access to the best weapons early on in the game. As a game show, the "organizers" will often spice things up with special in-match events that have some pretty crucial rewards too. Like the Hunger Games, players can also each call in an airdrop (a.k.a. "care package") containing valuable items but getting to that airdrop in one piece without having your stuff stolen before you reach there can be quite a challenge in itself.
Now, unlike PUBG's shooter-heavy gameplay, The Culling has a more visceral, action-based, melee-oriented gameplay that will make every successful kill a very satisfying one. Don't get me wrong - the game does have ranged options like bows and guns but having a firearm or any ranged weapons may not be an advantage if you don't know how to keep your distance. Players can easily be disarmed of their ranged weapon if they are ambushed by a melee player, and of course, if you missed your aim, you may not have a second shot.
However, due to a plague of problems between the developers and its community, The Culling seems to be a pretty dead game at the moment and hence, finding a match can be quite difficult. Similar to PUBG, The Culling is not a free game either and this game is on the pricey end considering its almost non-existant player base.