10 Best Battle Royale Games, Ranked

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It takes a certain kind of gamer to enjoy the punishing brutality of battle royale games, first popularized on PC with mods to and. Based on the popular 2000 Japanese film, players are dropped onto a map, typically starting with minimal equipment, and must loot and take out other players to be the last person standing. Death in battle royale games is typically permanent (outside of team revive mechanics), with the victor of the skirmish helping themselves to the dead player's loot.

Although now-defunct games like and though underrated, do deserve consideration for the best battle royale game, its now inaccessible nature makes it irrelevant to this list.

As explosive as the popularity of the genre initially was in the mid-late 2010s, the battle royale trend has actually diminished significantly, as most games don't fit the definition anymore. Games like the controversial are best described as extraction shooters, though they also share many similarities with the classic battle royale game. Keep in mind that the quality of a BR game is also affected by the size of its audience, as a playerbase is required to actually play the game as intended.

The FPS genre is one of the most saturated in gaming, but these 10 stand out to the point that they ruined other games released around the same time.

Although the most modern iteration of has been largely rejected by the community, it is the successor to the highly popular, which is largely considered one of the first and best BR shooters ever., which is more accurately just a rebrand of features solos, duos, and squad modes, where up to 150 players go head-to-head in an all-out battle to see who is the last person standing.

The community of has greatly diminished since its original launch, so finding a full lobby may be difficult.

Although the title and community have fallen quite a bit since the heights of in 2017, the game still exists online and maintains enough of a playerbase to find matches, though at a much lower