Drop in. Nearly a hundred other players have done the same. They could be anywhere, but a few are right up in your face. They fall first, and you scavenge the battleground. In the distance, you hear gunfire. You fight, hide, and scavenge some more. The world shrinks, forcing the dispersed and elite players ever closer together. Will you be the last one standing?
It sounds like a fun little gameplay loop. And for a while there, it was. Whether your introduction to the battle royale genre was PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or Minecraft Hunger Games, it's an arena we've all found ourselves in one way or another. But that was years ago. Too far away to remain trendy, too close for the nostalgia wave. The battle royale genre seems to be on its last legs - but there's one holdout.
In 2025, if you're playing a battle royale game, it's almost certainly Fortnite.
A recent study by Newzoo had some interesting discoveries about what games people are choosing each day. According to them, shooters and battle royales take up 40% of playtime, across all the nations they looked at. And 2021, those 40 points were split almost evenly between the two,...
