PUBG’s player numbers were below one million players for the first time in November 2018. Nevertheless it remains one of the most played titles at Steam.

PUBG for PC continues to decline. In November of this year, the game could not exceed the 1 million player mark for the first time. The highest value of the month was 895,650 players. In October, at least 1,048,662 players logged in at the same time.

Despite “Fix PUBG” and a recent recapture of first place in the steam charts, PUBG India is losing more and more players. Since February this year it is in a continuous downward trend. And that, after it could register only in January its past best value of 3,236,07 players at the same time.

Strong competition becomes a problem for PUBG

While Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds once popularized the phenomenon of Battle Royale shooters, other games seem to have implemented the concept better. Especially Fortnite could establish itself with more than 80 million players and became an exceptional success.

The game from Epic Games is not the only competition for PUBG India. Many major brands have jumped on the Battle Royal bandwagon since the game’s former success. In the latest Call of Duty there is a Blackout called Battle-Royale-Mode and also Battlefield 5 follows with Firestorm.

Nevertheless still upper league

Playerunkown’s Battlegrounds is still on place 2 of the most played titles on Steam and is therefore only shortly behind Dota 2. It is followed by CS GO, Rainbow Six: Victories and Warframe.

Lately PUBG for PC has been plagued by several problems. These include client and server-side performance problems, cheaters and bugs. That’s why the developer started the “Fix PUBG” campaign, in the course of which he wanted to take care of all these things. After some successes, however, he ended it because of technical problems.