PUBG: Blindspot, the top-down one of Plunkbat's siblings, deploys into early access next month

Not to beryllium confused with Black Budget, the extraction shootery one

PUBG: Blindspot, the PUBG spin-off antecedently dubbed Project Arc, is acceptable to instrumentality the aboriginal entree plunge connected February 5th, 2026. In lawsuit you've understadably started wondering if this is the extraction shooter which prompted my past spot of newsing astir a PUBG spin-off, it isn't. That's PUBG: Black Budget, PUBG: Blindspot's each astir fights successful which you're staring astatine the tops of folks' heads.

Blindspot's the 1 which got a Steam demo past year, shedding its Project Arc moniker astir that time. Ed Thorn (RPS successful peace) likened it to a "top-down Rainbow Six Siege with a spot of Hotline Miami" based connected the archetypal trailer. The latest look astatine it, which I've embedded above, shows of much of the shootouts successful confined rooms and coridoors which fuelled that view.

This time, there's a throbbing grime bushed pulsating arsenic the battlers get up to tactical hijinks successful the sanction of cutting disconnected each others' sightlines. Think a little lonely Escape from Duckov, but made by radical who ever bargain the full aisle of heavy-duty portion and woody planks whenever they sojourn a hardware store.

Armed with that benignant of gubbins, the ngo of you and your squad of up to 5 chap Plunkbatters is to hack into each building's hidden Crypt by installing a decrypter. One broadside are tasked with going the violative to scope the crypt and hack it, with the different are tasked with holding crushed and defending it portion they bash the same.

The squad down Blindspot accidental the aboriginal entree mentation - which is acceptable to beryllium free-to-play - volition absorption connected nailing the halfway experience, with a 5v5 online PvP lucifer basal getting regular strategy refinements, class/weapon equilibrium passes, and caller additions. They've not enactment distant immoderate figures successful presumption of however agelong aboriginal access'll last, alternatively saying that'll "depend connected improvement advancement and subordinate feedback". As such, the afloat launch'll hap whenever they consciousness the thing's acceptable for it.

While Blindspot'll beryllium escaped to effort retired of the gates adjacent month, Krafton bash marque wide that "after the authoritative release, we program to connection bundles astatine assorted terms points, arsenic good arsenic a assortment of in-game items".

If you fancy giving it a go, top-down Plunkbat's wishlistable connected Steam.