Battle Royale Games, Ranked

Its 2017 build mechanics and endless crossover events made it a cultural phenomenon, drawing over 12 million concurrent players to a single in-game Travis Scott concert.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds defined the modern 100-player formula and set a Steam record of over 3.2 million concurrent players in early 2018.

Respawn's 2019 launch drew 50 million players in its first month, praised for its ping system and fluid Titanfall-derived movement.

Launched free in 2020, it passed 100 million players within a year and popularized the second-chance Gulag mechanic.

Built for low-end phones, it became one of the most downloaded mobile games ever and one of the highest-grossing battle royales worldwide.

The mobile port surpassed a billion downloads and is one of the highest-grossing mobile games globally, dominating markets across Asia.

The 2020 party-game twist on battle royale set a PlayStation Plus download record and reimagined the genre as physics-based obstacle chaos.

A 2021 wuxia-flavored, close-combat battle royale that surpassed 10 million copies sold by mid-2022 and proved swords could headline the genre.

A clever 2019 Switch experiment that turned Tetris into a 99-player elimination battle, sending garbage lines to rivals.

An early battle royale that peaked over 150,000 concurrent players in 2018 before collapsing as Fortnite and PUBG overtook it.

A class-and-forge battle royale from Hi-Rez's Heroic Leap Games that drew early buzz in 2018 but bled players and never recovered its momentum.

A well-regarded Tencent battle royale with grappling hooks and dynamic disasters, hobbled by limited regional availability.

Ubisoft's fast-paced 2020 urban battle royale failed to hold players and was shut down in April 2022, under two years after launch.

A stylish spellcasting battle royale that launched in September 2020; its studio Proletariat was acquired by Blizzard in 2022, and the servers shut down in January 2023.

A 2022 vampire battle royale set in Prague; developer Sharkmob ended active development in 2023 amid a shrinking player base before eventually shutting the servers down.

The 2018 sequel launched to near-empty lobbies, dropping to a single concurrent player within 40 hours, and was pulled from sale eight days later.

Boss Key's rushed 2018 '80s-themed battle royale launched in early access, and the studio shut down roughly a month afterward.