
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
PUBG Corporation · KRAFTON, Inc. · 2017-12-21
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ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFree To Play
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Battle Royale · Perspectives: First person, Third person
Releases: Dec 20, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 07, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Sep 04, 2018 (Xbox One), Nov 13, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Nov 13, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Apr 28, 2020 (Google Stadia)
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is a free-to-play Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer and Free To Play game released in 2017, with an estimated 100,000,000 .. 200,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (60% of 2,741,628 reviews).
138,005 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)
PUBG: Battlegrounds, originally titled PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), is a 2017 battle royale game published by Krafton and developed by Krafton's PUBG Studios. Inspired by the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000), the game is based on mods created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene and was developed under his creative direction. Played from a third-person or first-person perspective, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island where they search for weapons and equipment to fight against each other while trying to survive as the last one standing. The safe area of the game's map decreases over time, directing players into an ever-tightening space to force encounters.
Trailer

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Health check
- · 138,005 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
- · 134,048 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16,756/week).
- · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
- · Top 1% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.
Health tier since 2026-09-17
Tier history: healthy→thriving (Sep 17), thriving→healthy (Sep 16), healthy→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→healthy (Sep 15)
Current store prices
| Microsoft Store | $0.00 |
Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.
All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2019-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal
12-month high $0.00 · on sale 8 of 8 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)
Review momentum
Players online
Chart history
Price history
Attention
Twitch viewers
Completion
- · 64.7% of players earned Blood on My Hands
- · 18.7% of players earned First Come, First Served
- · 0.7% of players earned Shoot the Knee
Global achievement rates from Steam.
Details
17 supported languages: English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Turkish…
Console footprint
| Platform | Players tracked | Completion | Trophies/achievements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam (Steam) | 286,894 | 3% | 37 |
| PS4 (PlayStation) | 90,650 | 1% | 38 |
| PS4 (PlayStation) | 89,811 | 2% | 38 |
| PS5 (PlayStation) | 6,343 | 1% | 38 |
Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.
Where its players are
- Chinese (Simplified)53% · 1.4M reviews
- English17% · 448k reviews
- Russian13% · 345k reviews
- Korean6% · 148k reviews
- Turkish3% · 87k reviews
Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.
Player tags
FPSPvPCo-opActionShooterStrategySurvivalTacticalCompetitiveMultiplayer
Census log
- 2018-03-01First review activity on record (week of 2018-03-01).
- 2019-11-01Biggest review week on record: 119,192 reviews (week of 2019-11-01).
- 2026-08-06Tracked on Steam's official most-played chart since 2026-08-06 (best rank recorded: #2).
- 2026-09-01Negative review surge: 29,172 negative vs 8,239 positive in the week of 2026-09-01 (typical week: 6,244 negative).
- 2026-10-14Highest concurrent player count the census has recorded: 802,531 (2026-10-14).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
Recent updates
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