PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Skip · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 102.7h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 61% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 71% over the last 30 days against 61% all-time.
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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
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 19) beats it on value, while it beats Z1 Battle Royale (free, scores 1).
Players rate it 61 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 71 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 36,503 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 102.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 508, 4.9 times as much.
Still 314.7K concurrent players, 9 years in.
It is still busy. 314.7K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: cosmetic and currency.
The drop-off
65% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
315K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
No skillbased matchmaking, they ban accounts for like 1 day when they use obvious cheats, and they're constantly shilling microtransactions for cosmetics for a game I purchased.
♥♥♥ playable, the game is good, i see the vision, but the community is just too hard on the newcomers
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/578080/pubg-battlegroundsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10.
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