Battlegrounds surges past 1 million copies sold on Steam in a mere 16 days

The latest entry in the Battle Royale-like genre continues to top Steam’s best-seller chart.

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has zoomed past 1 million copies sold on Steam after only 16 days since launching onto Steam’s Early Access portal for unfinished games, according to developer Bluehole. The online game has 100 players joining a server on an island and tasks you with surviving. You can collect weapons, armor, and other items, and the last player standing wins. This is a genre that has picked up a lot of momentum recently thanks to the ongoing success of Daybreak Game Company’s H1Z1: King of the Kill. But now Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is working to supplant that as one of the most-played games on Steam (beyond Valve’s Dota 2 or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive).