Radical Heights
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player shoots rival human contestants with firearms and blood appears on hits; no dismemberment, gore, or lingering wounds are shown.
Arcade prize wheels and claw machines placed around the arena take looted in-game cash for a chance at randomized weapons or cosmetics, with no cash-out.
Real money buys cosmetic items — character outfits and weapon skins — that change appearance only and do not affect play.
Cosmetic purchases exist but are entirely optional, and nothing needed to play is withheld from players who do not pay.
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What it is
Radical Heights is a free-to-play battle royale shooter set as a garish 1980s television game show, where contestants parachute into an arena, scavenge weapons and gadgets, and fight each other with firearms until one survivor remains. The core action is competitive gunplay against other human players; hits draw blood but there is no gore, dismemberment, or graphic injury, and the presentation is bright and cartoonish. Players loot in-game cash and can spin arcade prize wheels or work claw machines around the map to win gear by chance. It is played online with strangers over voice and text chat, and the free game sells optional cosmetic items for real money.
How it's framed
The game frames its lethal competition as campy, satirical entertainment — a neon game show where eliminating rivals earns cash, fame, and prizes — treating the violence as spectacle rather than something dwelt on or moralized.
Details
- Developer
- Boss Key Productions
- Publisher
- Boss Key Productions
- Released
- Apr 10, 2018
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