PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds became #3 in popularity on Steam

The survival simulator PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds took third place in the Steam popularity rating and broke out into the leaders in views on Twitch for the first week of early access.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is fighting for the third place in the chart of the most popular Steam games with a fellow genre H1Z1: King of the Kill. King of the Kill is ahead of its competitor in terms of online peak values: last month H1Z1 simultaneously gathered 124 thousand players, while the online record of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is 86 thousand gamers so far.

Online in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 23.03–2.04

The success of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Steam is due to the popularity on Twitch, where the game became the leader in views, beating League of Legends and Counter Strike: Global Offensive.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds broadcasts are constantly watched by at least 100 thousand people, while H1Z1: King of the Kill has emerged from the top ten most popular games on Twitch, and now its audience is no more than 30 thousand viewers per hour.

Recall that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds raised more than $ 11 million in three days after its release on Steam.

Source: GitHyp