The original Path of Exile: Royale was an April Fools’ Day joke, and the developers pulled a team together, requesting they spend only a single day each working on the project. “We had a running joke in the office that our fast development speed meant that we could probably add a battle royale mode to Path of Exile in one day of development,” said Chris Wilson, Grinding Gear Games co-founder, in Thursday’s reveal video. The 2021 version of the mode is significantly more polished than the previous iteration, which Grinding Gear Games made on a lark. Players pick up loot, level up skills, and battle on an island specially designed for Path of Exile: Royale. Path of Exile: Royale is a battle royale mode set in the long-running action game.

The mode will continue to appear on the weekends through Path of Exile’s new Expedition League. The action game’s battle royale mode, which first launched in 2018, will go live on Thursday and run for 48 hours. After multiple years on hiatus, Path of Exile : Royale is back.

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