Everybody wants a slice of that Battle Royale pie right now that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds happens to have cornered the market on. Fortnite has shamelessly stolen all the best ideas of PUBG’s pioneering work and found massive success, while even Paladins has hopped on the bandwagon with their own take on the formula. Here’s ten such games which we think would transition to the genre perfectly, if it made good use of the defining elements that are present in the design of a good ol’ battle royale.

With staples like the persistent timer and sporadic saves gone, the urgency and dread is gone – allowing Dead Rising to be the silly, absurd bit of zombie-slaying mayhem it always wanted to be. Purists may scoff, but there’s no denying that it’s fun – and just about the best Christmas game in existence.

Was Capcom’s latest shambling undead killer a perfect sequel last year when it released on Xbox One? No, no it wasn’t. Dead Rising 4 was still fun though, and given that I have an addiction to power fantasies, it was a blast to mow down hordes of the recently resurrected while Christmas tunes played on the radio of the truck that was caked in the blood of thousands.

Dead Rising 4 may not be perfect, but its inherent silliness proves that the apocalypse can be fun as Frank West comes home to the original zombie outbreak.

2016 still has a few titles left to show you, so there’s no use in running away. Here’s what’s on the horizon for the merriest of months.

Capcom Vancouver sees the exclusion of the timer mechanic in Dead Rising 4 as a necessary excision to give players more freedom.

Dead Rising 4 might not feature the distinctive time limit of previous titles, but its DLC packages will knock on that door once again.

This year Dead Rising 4 is skipping time limits so that can open up the sandbox more to the concept of exploration.