H1Z1: King of the Kill’s active player count has grown 1,000% since September

Publisher Daybreak Games’ competitive zombie survival shooter has fought its way back to the top of Steam.

H1Z1: King of the Kill’s number of players has grown 1,000 percent over the last six months, according to data-tracking site GitHyp. It is regularly among the top-sellers on the PC-gaming portal Steam’s Early Access channel, and it lands just behind Dota 2 and Counter-Strike as the No. 3 most-played game on that service. H1Z1: King of the Kill is debuted as a standalone game for $20 on Steam around 12 months ago after nearly a year of selling in a package alongside the core H1Z1 survival game. In King of the Kill, a couple dozen players join a server and then search out weapons and resources before fighting to the death. When your character dies, you’re out — the winner is the last person standing.