PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Skip · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 61% of 2,746,444
- Genre rank
- Top 88% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews, Monetization
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 101.3h
- To 100%
- 496h 4.9x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Players and genre
- Online
- 415,620 now
- Better reviewed
- 13% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
65% start to 4% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Apex Legends™ (free, scores 20) beats it on value, while it beats Z1 Battle Royale (free, scores 1).
It is still busy. 415.6K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 4, 10:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. PCGamingWiki lists loot boxes in it, the aggressive kind of in-app purchase.
More about PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 36,437 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 101.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 496, 4.9 times as much.
2,746,444 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Ich verliere während der Matches häufig die Verbindung zum Server; seit den Updates im August läuft das Spiel träge und das Spielerlebnis hat sich verschlechtert - ehrlich gesagt macht es einfach keinen Spaß mehr. Das ist blöde!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I've played PUBG since before its full release. I have over 4,000 hours on both accounts. That number means something. It means I didn't just try PUBG and move on. I stuck with it. I came back to it. I played it through bad patches, bad performance, cheaters, bugs, questionable decisions, and years of frustration. A lot of those hours were with friends, especially over the last three years after taking a long break...
2 hours in and I already know everything about PUBG. Land. Loot. Hide. Panic. Die. Spend 15 minutes finding a gun just to miss every shot. Blame lag. Queue again. 10/10, absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS scores 6/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/578080/pubg-battlegroundsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.