PUBG is the primary Steam game to have one million concurrent gamers for a full yr

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds remains to be massively common, and it’s simply damaged a brand new milestone: It’s the primary game ever to have at the very least one million concurrent gamers for 365 days in a row.

SteamDB tracks every day gamers on Steam apps, and PUBG has now had 24-hour peaks of greater than one million gamers for a full yr. The all-time excessive got here January 13, when the 24-hour peak was 3.2 million gamers.
Numbers have tapered off since then, however PUBG stays amongst Steam’s most-played titles. Of course, SteamDB solely tracks Steam games, so there’s no strategy to rapidly evaluate PUBG in opposition to its largest rival, Fortnite, which runs via Epic’s personal launcher.

Fortnite however, it’s not arduous to grasp PUBG’s lasting enchantment. We’ve included the battle royale shooter on our listing of the best PC games of 2017, the best survival games on PC, and the best PC games general.
PUBG has spun out from unique writer BlueHole into its personal firm, the PUBG Corp, and the game is positioning itself for a transfer into skilled esports. New maps and game modes have arrived over the course of the game’s life, and though the rollout of some new features has been often rocky, gamers have caught with it.

Here’s the SteamDB chart mapping PUBG’s peak concurrent gamers over the past yr.While it wasn’t technically the primary battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds most likely deserves credit score for sparking the craze – for higher or for worse.