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A battle royale game is one of the most popular online multiplayer video game genre. It combines the survival, exploration, and scavenging elements of a survival game with last-man-standing gameplay. Battle royale games include dozens to hundreds of players, who start with minimal equipment and then must kill all other opponents while avoiding being trapped outside of a shrinking “safe area”, with the champion being the last player or team alive. The name for the genre is taken from the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale, itself based on the novel of the same name, which presents a similar theme of a last-man-standing competition in a shrinking play zone.

The genre’s origins arose from mods for large-scale online survival games like Minecraft and ARMA 2 in the early 2010s. By the end of the decade, the genre became a cultural phenomenon, with standalone games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (2017), Fortnite Battle Royale (2017), Apex Legends (2019), and Call of Duty: Warzone (2020), each having received tens of millions of players within months of their releases.