PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds overtook Dota 2 for concurrent players last night

by Shivendra Singh · August 27, 2017

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds reached a new milestone last night: it had more than 800,000 players online at the same time on Steam, briefly beating out Valve’s own Dota 2.

The game is pretty simple: a hundred people parachute onto a giant map, locate weapons, and proceed to kill one another. The last person standing wins. It’s also been steadily growing in popularity since it landed on Steam’s Early Access in March, and ranked fourth on Steam’s list of most concurrent players ever in July. This new high yesterday makes it only the third game hit that number, behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2.