DEVELOPER PUBG STUDIOS PUBLISHER KRAFTON
Perhaps the most recent game to cause a paradigm shift in how mainstream titles are designed, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds emerged from the inhumane chaos of DayZ, Bohemia Interactive’s multiplayer zombie survival mod for ArmA 2. In DayZ’s world, survival was the only goal, and in achieving this you could be as cruel and treacherous to other players as you liked.
PUBG basically took this idea and formalised it into a round-based scenario. The same large, post-military world, the same large number of players. But now players had to compete with one another in a gradually shrinking playspace until only one of them was left. And lo! The battle royale genre was born.