Radical Heights
Boss Key released an openly unfinished battle royale into 'X-Treme Early Access' and folded before it could become a complete product.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Limited Appearance
- Peak stage
- limited public access
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A free-to-play 1980s-themed battle royale developed by Boss Key Productions.
The game launched with unfinished environments, placeholder systems and rapid experiments as the studio tried to recover from LawBreakers.
Existence timeline
Boss Key reveals a rapidly produced battle royale.
Players enter an explicitly unfinished public build.
The studio updates systems and unfinished spaces in public.
Boss Key ceases operations and development ends.
The limited public build leaves normal availability without a full release.
Why it ended
Boss Key shut down in May 2018; servers remained briefly available but no team existed to finish or formally launch the game.
Last confirmed trace
The Steam listing, client files, streams and gameplay recordings preserve its visibly incomplete public state.
What it left behind
Its one-month life became an extreme case of early access exposing a desperate studio's final prototype directly to players.
How we classified it
Ordinary people encountered a restricted preview, pilot or test, but the archive unit never reached normal general availability.
Verified limited public access without general availability maps to 98 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.