What is a battle royale game?
Q: What is a battle royale game?
A: A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that combines survival, exploration, and scavenging in a game where only one can remain. It's also known as a last-man-standing game.
Q: How many players typically take part in a battle royale game?
A: Battle royale games usually have a large number of players ranging from tens to hundreds.
Q: What do the players start with at the beginning of the game?
A: Players typically start with almost nothing.
Q: What do they try to do during the course of the game?
A: Players try to defeat all other enemies/players while trying to stay inside of a play zone or "safe area" that gets smaller over time.
Q: Where does the name for this genre come from?
A: The name for this genre comes from the 2000 Japanese movie Battle Royale which has a similar theme of a last-man-standing competition in a shrinking play zone.
Q: When did this genre first arise?
A: The origins of this genre arose from mods for large-scale online survival games like Minecraft and ARMA 2 in the early 2010s.
Q: How popular has it become by 2020? A: By 2020, it had become very popular with standalone games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Fortnite Battle Royale and Apex Legends each having received tens of millions of players within months of their release.
