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Z1 Battle Royale cover art

Z1 Battle Royale

Daybreak Game Company · 2018-02-28

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureFree To PlayMassively Multiplayer

Modes: Multiplayer, Battle Royale · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Feb 28, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 07, 2018 (PlayStation 4)

Z1 Battle Royale is a Free to Play, fast-paced, action arcade, competitive Battle Royale. Staying true to its "King of the Kill" roots, the game has been revamped and restored to the classic feel, look, and gameplay everyone fell in love with. Play solo, duos, or fives and be the last ones standing.

Z1 Battle Royale is an Action, Adventure, Free To Play, Massively Multiplayer title released in 2018, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 10,000,000 .. 20,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 202332 reviews).

52
playing now
56%
positive of 202k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
10,000,000–20,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
66/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (47 ratings)
3.98★
PlayStation Store rating (220,115 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

52 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Z1 Battle Royale is a battle royale game developed and published by Daybreak Game Company. The game's development began after the original H1Z1 was spun off into two separate projects in early 2016: H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Kill. The games were further split as separate projects in October 2017, with Just Survive dropping the H1Z1 name, and King of the Kill becoming simply H1Z1.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 52 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 348 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~44/week).
  • · Review velocity down 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (18,099 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2017-12-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12k12k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 5,851 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 12,248 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1,496 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2,771 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1,104 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1,867 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1,038 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1,821 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 873 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1,616 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 592 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1,072 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 546 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 886 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 717 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1,017 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 789 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 594 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 634 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 277 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 522 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1,092 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1,340 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 416 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 367 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 458 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 585 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 528 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 590 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 333 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 239 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 230 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 568 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 394 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 312 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,746 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 577 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 817 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 417 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 427 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 359 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 448 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 339 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 293 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 247 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 218 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 185 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 150 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 224 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 157 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 192 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,079 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 387 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 456 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 270 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 171 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 142 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 164 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 622 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 394 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 20 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

489312026-09-14 19:00 — 59 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 32 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 51 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 101 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 47 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 82 players2026-09-22 17:00 — 152 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 73 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 118 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 203 players2026-09-27 23:00 — 132 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 79 players2026-09-30 14:00 — 180 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 489 players2026-10-03 05:00 — 79 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 324 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 142 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 63 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 110 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 147 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 67 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 59 players2026-10-13 18:00 — 110 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 52 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
87k18Feb 2016Aug 2026Feb 2016 — avg 14,040 · peak 20,916Jun 2016 — avg 8,025 · peak 12,895Oct 2016 — avg 15,580 · peak 27,893Feb 2017 — avg 41,964 · peak 97,404Jun 2017 — avg 71,254 · peak 134,487Oct 2017 — avg 31,263 · peak 63,253Feb 2018 — avg 7,163 · peak 14,518Jun 2018 — avg 5,877 · peak 11,302Oct 2018 — avg 2,454 · peak 4,927Feb 2019 — avg 1,079 · peak 2,050Jun 2019 — avg 782 · peak 1,805Oct 2019 — avg 317 · peak 1,201Feb 2020 — avg 1,710 · peak 6,721Jun 2020 — avg 183 · peak 369Oct 2020 — avg 160 · peak 311Feb 2021 — avg 189 · peak 372Jun 2021 — avg 168 · peak 455Oct 2021 — avg 102 · peak 549Feb 2022 — avg 94 · peak 326Jun 2022 — avg 97 · peak 271Oct 2022 — avg 56 · peak 189Feb 2023 — avg 72 · peak 277Jun 2023 — avg 964 · peak 1,226Oct 2023 — avg 531 · peak 1,178Feb 2024 — avg 1,010 · peak 1,268Jun 2024 — avg 870 · peak 1,089Oct 2024 — avg 503 · peak 551Feb 2025 — avg 811 · peak 1,126Jun 2025 — avg 888 · peak 1,029Oct 2025 — avg 965 · peak 1,017Feb 2026 — avg 986 · peak 1,187Jun 2026 — avg 18 · peak 121Aug 2026 — avg 31 · peak 191
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$269.99$0.002016-02-182018-07-052016-02-18 — best price $19.992016-04-21 — best price $13.392016-04-25 — best price $19.992016-06-23 — best price $12.992016-07-04 — best price $19.992016-09-30 — best price $12.992016-10-10 — best price $19.992016-10-28 — best price $11.992016-11-01 — best price $19.992016-12-07 — best price $9.992016-12-13 — best price $19.992016-12-22 — best price $12.992017-01-02 — best price $19.992017-04-17 — best price $11.992017-04-24 — best price $19.992017-06-22 — best price $9.992017-07-10 — best price $19.992017-10-13 — best price $9.992017-10-25 — best price $19.992017-11-22 — best price $5.002017-11-28 — best price $19.992017-12-14 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $19.992018-02-15 — best price $7.992018-02-19 — best price $19.992018-03-14 — best price $0.002018-06-10 — best price $269.992018-07-05 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

286462026-06-01 — 65 pageviews2026-06-05 — 98 pageviews2026-06-09 — 64 pageviews2026-06-13 — 46 pageviews2026-06-17 — 65 pageviews2026-06-21 — 57 pageviews2026-06-25 — 73 pageviews2026-06-29 — 58 pageviews2026-07-03 — 81 pageviews2026-07-07 — 66 pageviews2026-07-11 — 58 pageviews2026-07-15 — 96 pageviews2026-07-19 — 74 pageviews2026-07-23 — 71 pageviews2026-07-27 — 86 pageviews2026-07-31 — 61 pageviews2026-08-04 — 62 pageviews2026-08-08 — 81 pageviews2026-08-12 — 58 pageviews2026-08-16 — 71 pageviews2026-08-20 — 81 pageviews2026-08-24 — 73 pageviews2026-08-28 — 68 pageviews2026-09-01 — 96 pageviews2026-09-05 — 100 pageviews2026-09-09 — 137 pageviews2026-09-13 — 157 pageviews2026-09-17 — 147 pageviews2026-09-21 — 191 pageviews2026-09-25 — 269 pageviews2026-09-29 — 195 pageviews2026-10-03 — 158 pageviews2026-10-07 — 160 pageviews2026-10-11 — 146 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

5.9k2.0k2026-10-01 22:34 — 3,186 viewers2026-10-01 23:34 — 3,708 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 5,854 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 5,259 viewers2026-10-02 02:34 — 4,183 viewers2026-10-02 03:34 — 3,909 viewers2026-10-02 04:34 — 2,169 viewers2026-10-02 05:34 — 2,420 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 2,027 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 2,533 viewers2026-10-02 08:34 — 3,099 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 3,151 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 3,519 viewers2026-10-02 11:34 — 3,627 viewers2026-10-02 12:34 — 3,845 viewers2026-10-02 13:34 — 4,552 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 5,425 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPIn-App Purchases

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSPvPCo-opActionShooterZombiesSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerEarly Access

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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