Battle Royale genre can be traced back as early as 1999 as novel which was adapted to a movie in the year 2000
Before the Hunger games movie was released in 2012 numerous games have already incorporated the “last man standing mode”.
Games like the original Counter Strike and the Unreal Tournament Series included this modes
The player count is smaller back then at around 10-14 players
In Early April 2012 Hunger game styled battle royale servers started showing up for the game Minecraft
There were hundreds of private servers in the following months
The mode was literally called Hunger Games which was later changed to Survival Games
The game mode is basically what PUBG is using right now, player gather resources scattered around the play area. Players will then eliminate until the last surviving player wins the match. Sounds familiar?
While later that April 2012 an Open world multiplayer survival mod DayZ for Arma 2 was released by Dean Hall as a personal project.
Players are dropped in a zombie filled post a apocalyptic world where they have to scavenge for supplies, weapons and gear while fighting other survivors
On August 2012 a DayZ tournament called Hunger GameZ was organized which featured Dayz Twitch Streamers
September 2012, DayZ: Battle Royale is announced on reddit by Brendan Green whom we all know as PlayerUnknown.
It pre entered the pre-alpha stages in the name DayZBR which is a mod to DayZ
Due to its popularity it was released as a Standalone in December 2013
On July 2013 Rust a DayZ inspired Arma 2 made by Garry’s Mod makers enters pre alpha testing
The game is a mixture of DayZ and minecraft, if you think about it this is the earliest inspiration of Fortnite
Then on March 2014 PlayerUnknown’s Battle Royale mod for Arma 23 was released by Brendan Greene.
This was the basis for the current PUBG
January 2015 Daybreak Studios hires Brendan Green as a consultant for the game H1Z1 King of the Hill
This game suffered from technical problems at launch but still manage to sell millions of copies in the two months
On March 2017 PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was released in early access on Steam and for Windows
September 2017 a Battle Royal mode was released by Epic Games on their game Fortnite
December 20 2017 PUBG got a full release
2018 and beyond several battle royal stand along games started to emerge and announced
