Rapture Rejects

Rapture Rejects crashed StreamerHouse's apocalypse in 2018, peaking at 840 viewers for the Cyanide & Happiness battle royale that couldn't fill lobbies long enough to matter. Released into Early Access November 29th, 2018, Galvanic and tinyBuild's top-down isometric take on the genre featured 50 players fighting for God's attention after being left behind during Rapture. StreamerHouse sessions showcased the dark humor premise—scavenge weapons and kill everyone on Earth to impress the almighty enough for Heaven entry, all rendered in Explosm's stick-figure art style. The game struggled immediately: European servers required 2+ minute waits, with lucky matches featuring maybe three other players instead of the promised 50-person chaos. One of E3 2018's "more surprising announcements," the game never escaped Early Access as planned for early 2020. On April 26th, 2021, Explosm requested Steam removal, which was granted August 2021—a quiet death for a battle royale that launched into a saturated market. For StreamerHouse, Rapture Rejects exemplified the 2018 battle royale goldrush's failures: unique art styles and humor couldn't overcome population problems when PUBG and Fortnite had already captured the zeitgeist, leaving niche experiments to die in empty lobbies waiting for matches that would never fill.