The action in the new ‘Infection’ mode is very intense! Players accept warring parties as zombies or defenders. Defenders must survive, but with every kill, zombies get stronger

SteamSpy data showed that PUBG overtook long-standing popular projects in terms of the number of simultaneous players. on Steam such as Fallout 4 and Grand Theft Auto V, even surpassing Dota 2, the most popular platform game in August 2017. The following month, the maximum number of players in the game exceeded 1.3 million people, which exceeded the record level in Dota 2, equal to 1.29 million and set in March 2016. At the beginning of October 2017, the peak number of simultaneously playing users reached 2 million people [6]. The game also gained popularity in South Korea, in local Internet cafes called PC bang. Gametrics, an analytical firm, said that by August 2017, PUBG had surpassed Overwatch and became the second most popular game in the country, second only to League of Legends.

Some gaming journalists commented on the rapid growth of a large user base for the game, which was still in early access. The creator of the game, Brendan Green, was sure that during the first month the game could attract more than one million players, however, some of the development team expected only from 200,000 to 300,000 during the first year and were very surprised by the results for the first month.