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Action-focused battle royale gameplay defines PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, a 2017 release from developer pubg-corporation. Published by krafton-inc, it has 1,760,487 Steam reviews with 60% positive, giving a mixed large-scale player signal.
Overview
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is a 2017 Action game developed by PUBG Corporation and published by KRAFTON, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 1,760,554 player reviews, 60% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer PUBG Corporation with publisher KRAFTON, Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 73.9 million to 172.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,760,554
Positive
60%
Steam appid
578080
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.073.9M to 172.5M
units (median: 123.2M)
≈ $633.5M to $1478.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_60% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at roughly 73.9 million to 172.5 million copies, with a median around 123.2 million, derived from its 1,760,554 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1055.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.26Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.26 to $19.99, averaging $18.35 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.26 on 2026-04-26.
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS sold?
- indielist estimates PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS has sold between 73,943,268 and 172,534,292 units (median 123,238,780), derived from its 1,760,554 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS?
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS was developed by PUBG Corporation and published by KRAFTON, Inc..
- When was PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS released?
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS have on Steam?
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS has 1,760,554 Steam reviews, of which 60% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, PUBG Corporation's other releases and KRAFTON, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.