Flappy Bird is a gaming legend and one of the most explosively popular cellular games ever made. But what if it had been like Fortnite?

That's the idea behind Flappy Royale, a new game from developers Orta Therox and Em Lazer-Walker (with contributions from Zach Gage). It mashes together the endless flapping gameplay of Flappy Bird with the last-bird-standing kind of this battle royale genre that's all the rage these days.

Gameplay is simple, just like it was in the original game: tap your own bird to flap and dodge your way through some unnaturally Mario-esque pipes. Except the goal isn't to endure as long as you can; it's to survive more than the other 99 players, all of whom it is possible to see flapping alongside you in real time. And because it's a battle royale sport, everyone starts out together on a bus, of course.

It's a similar fashion as the recently released (and even more lately DCMA'd by Nintendo) Mario Royale, which provided similar"how long will you live" gameplay, albeit with classic Mario phases instead of random Flappy Bird pipes.

In a twist from the normal Flappy formulation, you will find customization choices for creating your bird stick out in the flock (another item that is made from Fortnite), together with some"Daily Trial" mode that offers a preset class that players may try up to ten times to free v bucks get a spot on a worldwide leaderboard.