PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds Breaks Another Concurrent Player Record

PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds has crushed its own concurrent player record that it set about a month ago. On July 30, PUBG racked up a concurrent player number of 481,291 making it the most played video game on Steam that Valve doesn’t make. It had beat out Fallout 4 for that honor. Fast forward several weeks and PUBG has smashed its own record with a 24-hour peak player count of over 870,000 concurrent players.

It beat out Valve’s DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to land that record. Also below PUBG in concurrent player numbers was GTA V and H1Z1. The exact player count was 877,844 for PUBG. The peak number was also high enough to land the game in the second place spot for highest concurrent player count ever.

Kotaku figures that part of the reason for the huge number of player in PUBG had to do with an invitational game during Games Com. That was a four day event and was streamed on Twitch. Players have been flocking to the game of late with as many as 250,000 new players coming in the last few weeks alone.

PUBG has a long way to go before it can content for the top spot in concurrent gamers, Dota 2 holds that spot with a player count of 1,291,328. That record was set in March of last year. Battlegrounds was launched last summer and can trace its root back to a mod originally made for ARMA 2. The game has sold 8 million copies and hasn’t officially launched yet.