The online battle royale-hero shooter Apex Legends often features limited time modes (LTMs) for players to enjoy while taking a break from the standard battle royale format. Some of their LTMs include Control, Team Deathmatch, and Gun Run. Each year for Halloween, they traditionally offer a spookier game mode for players. 

For most years since the game was released, the Halloween game mode has been Shadow Royale, often enhanced by boosting Apex Legends‘ seasonal excitement. Shadow Royale is just like Battle Royale, but with a twist. When a player is killed, they come back as a member of the undead known as a Shadow. Shadows can run faster, climb higher, double jump, and gain powerful melee attacks, but cannot pick up any weapon. Shadows respawn if they’re killed. A squad is only fully eliminated when all three members are killed.

Shadow Royale is quite fun, and it is pretty scary to have Shadows sprinting after you, but it is just Battle Royale at its core. It’s not too much different from an ordinary game of Apex Legends. The goal is ultimately the same.

This year, there’s an early bonus Halloween mode in addition to Shadow Royale. Trios in Battle Royale temporarily became Living Shell Trios. Everything is the same, except it’s nighttime and there’s a new grenade. The Rev Shell grenade is a spooky flying skull that locks onto opponents when thrown. While it is rather creepy seeing a skull flying after you and following you, it’s extraordinarily easy to deal with. You can shoot it out of the sky or just enter a building and close the door. A new, easily-avoidable grenade is hardly a substantial change.

The very first Halloween game mode they ever released, before they ever started their trend of bringing Shadow Royale back each year, was called Shadowfall, and it was the best one they’ve ever had. 

In Shadowfall, the match was split into two parts. For the first part, sixty players spawned in without squads and had to duke it out solo. When there were only ten players remaining, the second part began. Any player who was killed respawned as a Shadow, while the remaining ten became a team of survivors who had to fight their way to the dropship. If any of the survivors make it to the dropship, they win. If none do before the timer is up, the Shadows reign victorious.

Shadowfall actually felt like a different game mode than just Battle Royale with extra steps. It was also legitimately scary, which is much better for a Halloween game mode. Laying low while there are 59 other players hunting you down was suspenseful, and running from and battling a horde of 50 Shadows was truly terrifying. Everything about this mode was exhilarating, but 2019 was the last time fans could play it.

Shadowfall was easily one of the best LTMs Apex Legends has had. Others have come back, but not this one. It desperately needs to. If the developers are so adamant about keeping Shadow Royale, instead of choosing between the two, they could always rotate them in a spooky version of Mixtape, which rotates between their other LTMs. It’s hard to imagine an Apex Legends game mode that’s as unique or suspenseful as the long-missed Shadowfall.

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