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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds sets new record for concurrent players, over 2 million concurrent players


And the battle for the best battle royale game has heated up. A couple of minutes ago, Epic Games revealed that Fortnite: Battle Royale passed ten million total players. And almost simultaneously, Bluehole Studio revealed that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has set a new record for concurrent players on Steam.

According to the company, and Steam’s stats, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has passed two million concurrent players. As such, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the only game that has hit the two million goal for concurrent players.

Not only that, but Bluehole Studio was able to achieve this in just a month. Back in September, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds set a new record with 1,348,025 players online at the same time. In order to give you an idea, DOTA 2’s lifetime concurrent players peak was 1,291,328. And in just a month, Bluehole’s battle royale game has surpassed two million players online at the same time.

It’s also worth noting that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is only available on the PC and in Early Access (at least for now). On the other hand, Epic’s Fortnite is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

But anyway, this is great news for all battle royale fans as it will show publishers – and developers – that there is a big marker for this kind of games. Let’s just hope that future battle royale games won’t be plagued by loot boxes.