

Aiming, moving, shooting, and trying to look around is clunky and difficult. Hard as they tried to make this easy to play, virtual controls are not the same as physical - you are very much limited to confining almost all play to your thumbs, even more so than on controller. Learn the controls before you play for real.Even if you like the default controls (and even I, as one of those oddball players that play on default on nearly every other game in existence, decidedly did not), you should at least check out the Advanced menu and turn on "double tap to turn around." This game has put a ton of effort into customizing controls. Take some time to play around with the control schemes.Not always possible, but a train full of jostling elbows is not going to help your aim, which is already going to be complicated by the fact that you're using virtual controls, not a controller or mouse and keyboard. Try to find somewhere you won't be distracted.Players should be aware that like many good-looking mobile games, Rules of Survival is going to eat into your battery life. Keep a charger handy for this one if the games start to get long.

(No, the game doesn't actually go so far as to say that on the win screen, but they do inform you that you're downright savage!) although I would argue that if you're in it for the win, you're in it for the long haul, and no 15 minute morning commute is going to land you a winner, winner, chicken dinner. This game is pretty cool for those players who are constantly on the go and can't stay tethered to a PC or Xbox for long. Many of the play tips that apply to Rules of Survival in this article and these tips for PUBG will also apply to the above games.

There are a few others that have garnered a fair following including Survivor Royale also by NetEase but with half the player count, and the more arcadey-looking Fortnite Battle Royale on Xbox. What's truly surprising is its meteoric rise to the top of the App Store charts - and all of it without any discernible affiliation with the makers of PUBG - and how the world (so far) seems to simply shrug and go along with it. Enter Rules of Survival by NetEase Games - a shockingly polished mobile game available on Android and iOS that follows in PUBG's virtual footsteps almost to a T.
