PUBG
Remember PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, kids? It was kind of like Fortnite, before there ever was a Fortnite… if you can imagine such a universe. That strange, parallel world was known as “2017”.
PUBG has quietly been chugging along, even if it doesn’t make headlines so often anymore. It has a solid player base that, by this point, know Miramar like the back of their own hands, and are ready and waiting to devour whatever morsel developer Bluehole will throw at them.
PlayerUnknown himself has left for Brendan Greene-er pastures (sorry), and Bluehole has recently wrapped up the FIX PUBG campaign, which means that the game is entering a whole new phase of its lifespan.
Now that a lot of bugs have been squashed, and more than two million accounts have been banned for cheating, it’s not inconceivable that PUBG could rise again. It could be time for PUBG to remind everyone why they were number one for so long.
The key is to keep up the momentum. With the recent release of the long-rumored snow map Vikendi and whispers of a redesigned Erangel in the works, it seems like the production pipeline might have finally hit its stride… it’s just a shame that it took so long.
Of the games on this list, I think PUBG is in a position to become dominant once again if they can just kick things up a notch further.
There is still something about it that separates it from the rest of its battle royale competitors. Sure it’s janky and the character models look strange, but it’s also incredibly hardcore, and that sweet, sweet taste of a chicken dinner is still something to be savored.
