PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Hits 1 Million Players at Peak Time

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds now has just over a million players at a time at its peak. The multiplayer shooter has only one record left to take from another Steam game: Dota 2’s all-time peak which stands at just under 1.3 million players.

The figures can be seen on SteamCharts, among others. While Dota 2 still holds the record peak of 1.3 million players, Playerunkown’s Battlegrounds, also known as PUBG, is already the most popular game by day. For example, at the time of writing, Dota 2 has 620,000 players and PUBG 820,000. Battlegrounds has held that record for just under two weeks. As of late July, it has been the most popular non-Valve game on Steam, a record that was previously set by Fallout 4.

Dota 2’s all-time peak may well be surpassed when the next update for PUBG is published, due sometime in the next week. must to happen. It will introduce leaderboards for the first-person mode, foggy weather, and a new weapon.

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has been experiencing explosive growth since its release on Steam Early Access in March this year. In total there are more than ten million players. The game should come out of Early Access sometime in the fourth quarter of 2017. In the meantime, an Xbox One version is also being worked on, which should also be available this year.