Community:DylanBuildar/Plates of Fate: Mayhem

Plates of Fate: Mayhem was a luck-based survival game developed by. It was known to be the game that popularized the genre of plate survival. As of February 6, 2021, it had accumulated over 14 million visits and 96,000 favorites.

Although the game had long been abandoned by its developer and faced a problem with exploiters as a result, it had gained a devoted cult following, and maintains a small, consistent playerbase that averages around 20-50 players a day.

On March 15, 2020, a group by the name of Spilled Noodles published a remastered version of the game, which has since become more popular than the original game itself, averaging around 250-1K daily players, it was so popular that it can reach the full server limit (of 49) once or even twice - the main reason for the popularity being the fact that the remastered version is constantly being worked on and protected against exploiters, unlike the original, which has been abandoned by its creator.

On March 8, 2021, DylanBuildar updated the game, adding a link in the description with the text "Something big is coming..." above the link. The link leads to a new plate survival game the creator is presumably working on, titled "Secret", which, according to its description, would open to the public in Beta once it reaches 500 favorites, that game happens to be Plates of Fate: Total Chaos, which is the sequel to this game and doesn't have any exploiter issue. However, the game failed to have any considerable success, and so far has not had any significant daily player count, with only 54 thousand visits as of December 2021.

On May 1, 2021, DylanBuildar announced in the description of the game that Plates of Fate: Mayhem would be permanently closed on December 3rd, 2021 (the game's 5th anniversary), stating that the reason for the closure is the aforementioned exploiter problem, as well as other issues.

On December 3rd, 2021, Plates of Fate: Mayhem was discontinued after five years worth of chaos. The game is now closed to the public and presumably will never be reopened, although the description hints at a chance of it seeing the light of day in the future once more, with the caption "... Will it ever return? Who knows..." leading to speculation among fans.

Controversy
Sharkbyte Studios (owned by ) has developed and released a themed version of this game with some distinctive features, known as Lab Experiment, with many similar features from Plates of Fate.

Near the end of its run, Plates of Fate: Mayhem was infamous for being a major target for exploiters, due to the fact that the game was no longer being worked on by its developer, and therefore had vulnerable, outdated scripts that had been leaked for exploiters to take advantage of. Multiple servers were attacked by exploiters every day – the exploiting was often so severe, that servers did usually do not last more than a few hours before being broken by exploits. Due to the exploiting, and the creator's apparent unwillingness to fix the problems, the game had gained a negative reputation.

Gameplay
In Plates of Fate: Mayhem, players spawn onto their own plates. Depending on the game mode, players cannot jump onto other plates on their own. Meanwhile, the game chooses random players or random plates to be affected, which can be either beneficial or deadly.

Players can die via falling off the map or other factors from the game's events. When a player dies, their plate disappears. The goal of the game is to be the last player standing in a gamble of luck.

In this game, the average playtime of a round can come between ten minutes to half an hour. Some players complained about the length of each round and how they wished they would be shorter.