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This is a list of battle royale games, sorted chronologically. A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game.
| Year | Initial release | Game | Developer | Publisher | Platform | Viewpoint (perspective) | Free-to-play | Standalone | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | March 23, 2017 | PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds | PUBG Corporation [a] | PUBG Corporation | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Android, iOS, Google Stadia | First-person / Third-person | Yes | Yes | The game is based on previous mods that were created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games, inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale , [1] and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. |
| July 21, 2017 | Fortnite Battle Royale | Epic Games | Epic Games | Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Android | Third-person | Yes | Yes | The player can build structures as defense or buildings. It is a companion game to Fortnite: Save the World. | |
| September 30, 2017 (Beta) | Garena Free Fire | 111 Dot Studio | Garena | Android, iOS | Third-person | Yes | Yes | also known as Free Fire: Battlegrounds | |
| October 11, 2017 | Surviv.io | Justin Kim and Nick Clark | Justin Kim and Nick Clark Kongregate | Browser, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, iOS | Top Down | Yes | Yes | Heavily inspired by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Service for the official version of the game was halted in 2023. | |
| November 17, 2017 (Beta) | Rules of Survival | NetEase Games | NetEase Games | Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS | First-person / Third-person | Yes | Yes | ||
| December 1, 2017 | Knives Out [2] | NetEase Games | NetEase Games | Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS | First-person / Third-person | Yes | Yes | a PUBG clone | |
| 2018 | March 4, 2016 (Early access) | The Culling (video game) | Xaviant | Xaviant | Microsoft Windows, Linux, Xbox One | First-person | No | Yes | |
| April 1, 2018 | Path of Exile: Royale | Grinding Gear Games | Grinding Gear Games | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, macOS | Top-down isometric | Yes | No | A battle royale mode in Path of Exile , initially released for April Fools Day 2018, but later fleshed out and re-released on July 16, 2021. [3] | |
| June 5, 2018 (Beta) | Realm Royale | Heroic Leap Games | Hi-Rez Studios | Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch | Third-person | Yes | Yes | The game is a spin-off of the hero shooter Paladins , where it originated as a game mode known as Paladins: Battlegrounds. [4] [5] | |
| June 5, 2018 (Beta) | Totally Accurate Battlegrounds (TABG) | Landfall Games | Landfall Games | Microsoft Windows | First-person | Yes | Yes | A spin-off of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS) with heavily exaggerated physics. It became free to play in 2021 | |
| January 15, 2015 (Early access) | Z1 Battle Royale | Daybreak Game Company | Daybreak Game Company | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 | First-person | Yes | Yes | formerly known as H1Z1: King of the Kill [6] | |
| June 7, 2018 | Rec Royale (Rec Room) | Rec Room Inc. | Rec Room Inc. | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, iOS, Oculus Quest 1 /2 | First-person | Yes | No | A battle royale mode in Rec Room for up to 16 players (solo play) or 18 players (squads of 3 players). | |
| August 3, 2018 | Creative Destruction [7] | NetEase Games | NetEase Games | Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS | First-person / Third-person | Yes | Yes | a Fortnite clone | |
| September 19, 2018 (Early access) | Ring of Elysium | Aurora Studios | Garena | Microsoft Windows | First-person / Third-person | Yes | Yes | The game features extreme sports like BMX and snowboarding with deadly, dynamic weather. | |
| September 26, 2018 | Battlerite Royale | Stunlock Studios | Stunlock Studios | Microsoft Windows | Top-down Isometric | Yes | Yes | Battle royale mode based on the MOBA Battlerite. | |
| October 12, 2018 | Blackout (Call of Duty: Black Ops 4) | Treyarch | Activision | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | First-person | No | No | a battle royale mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 [8] | |
| October 22, 2018 (Beta) | Cyber Hunter | NetEase Games | NetEase Games | Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS | First-person / Third-person | Yes | Yes | ||
| December 6, 2018 | Danger Zone (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) | Valve Corporation | Valve Corporation | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux | First-person | Yes | No | A battle royale mode in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for up to 16 or 18 players. It is possible to play with group of friends as a squad of two or three players, or to play solo. | |
| December 12, 2018 | Brawl Stars | Supercell (video game company) | SuperCell | iOS, Android | Third-Person | Yes | Yes | Showdown mode in Brawl Stars for up to 10 players. | |
| 2019 | February 4, 2019 | Apex Legends | Respawn Entertainment | Electronic Arts | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Android, [b] iOS [b] | First-person | Yes | Yes | The game features squads of three players using pre-made characters, called "Legends". |
| March 25, 2019 | Firestorm (Battlefield V) | EA DICE | Electronic Arts | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | First-person | No | No | a battle royale mode in Battlefield V [9] | |
| June 10, 2019 | Nuclear Winter (Fallout 76) | Bethesda Game Studios | Bethesda Softworks | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | First-person / Third-person | No | No | a battle royale mode in Fallout 76 | |
| August 21, 2019 | Rogue Heist | Lifelike Studios | Time2Play Gaming Studios | Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows | Third-person | Yes | Yes | Rogue Heist is a competitive third-person shooter set in a world of organized crime. The game is designed to promote teamwork between players in order to complete objectives. | |
| September 10, 2019 | Red Death (Civilization VI) | Firaxis Games | 2K Games | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android | Top-down | No | No | Turn-based strategy, game mode inspired by other battle royales | |
| October 1, 2019 | Call of Duty: Mobile | TiMi Studios | Activision | Android, iOS | First-person / Third-person | Yes | No | ||
| October 25, 2019 | ScarFall - The Royale Combat | XSQUADS Tech Pvt Ltd | XSQUADS Tech Pvt Ltd | Android, iOS | Third-person | Yes | Yes | A made-in-India battle royale game that gained traction after PUBG got banned in the country. | |
| December 12, 2019 | CRSED: F.O.A.D. | Darkflow Studio | Gaijin Entertainment | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch | First-person / Third-person | Yes | Yes | ||
| December 12, 2019 | The Eliminator (Forza Horizon 4) | Playground Games | Microsoft Studios | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | First-person / Third-person | No | No | Players drive around the game map collecting car upgrades as the round goes on. They can challenge others to head-to-head races to eliminate rivals. The player is disqualified if they either leave the safe zone after a given time limit, or lose a head-to-head race. After 10 players remain, head-to-heads will disable (any in course will be aborted) and a final sprint race will dictate the winners of the game mode. | |
| 2020 | January 14, 2020 | Darwin Project | Scavengers Studio | Scavengers Studio | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | Third-person | Yes | Yes | |
| March 10, 2020 | Call of Duty: Warzone | Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Treyarch, Beenox | Activision | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | First-person | Yes | Yes | The game is a part of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game but does not require purchase of it. | |
| October 18, 2022 (Retired) | Hyper Scape | Ubisoft Montreal | Ubisoft | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | First-person | Yes | Yes | ||
| August 4, 2020 | Fall Guys | Mediatonic | Devolver Digital | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 | Third-person | Yes | Yes | Up to 60 players control jelly bean-like creatures and compete against each other in a series of challenges. It became free to play in 2022 [10] [11] | |
| September 3, 2020 | Spellbreak | Proletariat | Proletariat | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch | Third-person | Yes | Yes | Players use magical spells in place of guns, choosing from one of six classes wind, fire, ice, lightning, stone and toxic. | |
| September 18, 2020 | Farlight 84 | Lilith Games, Miracle Games | Miracle Games | Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS | Third-person | Yes | Yes | ||
| October 14, 2020 | Eternal Return | Nimble Neuron | Nimble Neuron, Kakao Games | Microsoft Windows | Top-down isometric | Yes | Yes | Battle royale with multiplayer online battle arena elements. | |
| October 22, 2020 | Population: One [12] | BigBox VR | BigBox VR | PCVR, Oculus | First-person | No | Yes | VR Battle Royale where you can climb, fly, and build. [13] | |
| 2021 | June 29, 2021 | Sausage Man | XD Entertainment Pte Ltd | XD Entertainment Pte Ltd | Android, iOS | Third-person | Yes | Yes | Wiggle Wiggle Sausage Battle |
| July 2, 2021 (Android), August 18, 2021 (iOS) | Battlegrounds Mobile India | Krafton | Krafton | Android, iOS | First-person / Third-person | Yes | No | Modified version of PUBG Mobile for the Indian market. | |
| August 11, 2021 | Naraka: Bladepoint | 24 Entertainment | NetEase Games Montreal | Microsoft Windows | First-person | No | Yes | ||
| August 26, 2021 | Super Animal Royale | Pixile Studios | Modus Games | macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | Third-person | Yes | Yes | ||
| September 7, 2021 (Windows) | Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt | Sharkmob AB | Sharkmob AB | Microsoft Windows | Third-person | Yes | Yes | Based in the World of Darkness universe. | |
| November 5, 2021 | The Eliminator (Forza Horizon 5) | Playground Games | Microsoft Studios | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | First-person / Third-person | No | No | Same rules as in Forza Horizon 4 . | |
| December 15, 2021 | Babble Royale | Everybody House Games | Everybody House Games | Microsoft Windows, macOS | Top-down | Yes | Yes | Battle royale word game. | |
| 2024 | March 19, 2024 | World of Warcraft: Plunderstorm | Blizzard Entertainment | Blizzard Entertainment | Microsoft Windows, macOS | Third-person | No | No | A pirate-themed Battle Royale game mode called Plunderstorm was released with patch 10.2.6. Players play separate characters specifically for Plunderstorm, rather than their usual characters. |
| November 20, 2024 (Open Beta) | SUPERVIVE | TheoryCraft Games | TheoryCraft Games | Microsoft Windows | Top-Down | Yes | Yes | A Moba and BR mash up game, taking elements from games such as League of Legends, Apex Legends, and Hero Shooters like Overwatch. [14] [15] The game is played with premade Heroes called Hunters, and follows a format similar to Apex Legends with MOBA type characters instead. [16] | |
| TBA | Sonic Rumble | Sega, Sonic Team, Rovio Entertainment | Sega | Android, iOS | TBA | Yes | Yes | A Sonic the Hedgehog battle royale game. [17] |
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Z1 Battle Royale is a battle royale game developed and published by Daybreak Game Company. The game's development began after the original H1Z1 was spun off into two separate projects in early 2016: H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Kill. The games were further split as separate projects in October 2017, with Just Survive dropping the H1Z1 name, and King of the Kill becoming simply H1Z1.
The Culling was a first-person action battle royale game developed and published by Xaviant. Following an early access beta phase, the game was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox One on October 5, 2017.
Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a 2018 free-to-play online hero shooter video game by Hi-Rez. The game was developed by Evil Mojo, an internal studio of Hi-Rez and was released on May 8, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, followed by a Nintendo Switch version released on June 12, 2018.
PUBG: Battlegrounds is a 2017 battle royale video game published by Krafton, and developed by Krafton's PUBG Studios. The game, which was inspired by the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000), is based on previous mods created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. Played from either a third-person or first-person perspective, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island where they are tasked to scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill other players while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into an ever-tightening space to force encounters.
A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game. Battle royale games involve dozens to hundreds of players, who start with minimal equipment and then must eliminate all other opponents while avoiding being trapped outside a shrinking "safe area", with the winner being the last player or team alive.
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Surviv.io was a browser-based multiplayer online 2D battle royale game created by Justin Kim and Nick Clark. It was released in October 2017 on its website for desktop browsers, and in October and November 2018 respectively for iOS and Android devices. Similar to other titles in the battle royale genre, players battled against other players on a large map from a top-down perspective, scavenging for supplies and weapons. The game also supported two or four player team modes, and could be played on mobile browsers as well.
Rules of Survival was a free-to-play multiplayer online battle royale game developed and published by NetEase Games. It was first released via beta access in November 2017 and released globally on May 31, 2018. By October 2018, the game had reached 230 million players worldwide.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds (TABG) is a multiplayer battle royale video game developed by Swedish studio Landfall Games, and a spin-off of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS). Similarly to how TABS parodies the battle simulator genre of video games, TABG is a parody of the battle royale genre, primarily titles such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite, and features exaggerated player and weapon physics. The game was released on Steam on June 5, 2018.
Realm Royale is a cancelled free-to-play third-person shooter battle royale game developed by Heroic Leap Games and published by Hi-Rez Studios. The game features multiple character classes each with unique abilities. It is a spin-off of the hero shooter Paladins, where it originated as a game mode known as "Battlegrounds".
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Fall Guys is a free-to-play platform battle royale game developed by Mediatonic and published by Epic Games.
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