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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Anomalous spike of negative reviews Sep 20–27
Players on Steam at last update
300,071
Source: Steam Web API, as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026.
Compared with the highest reading95%
05:00 UTC reading on November 8, 2026: 300,071, 95% of the highest recorded by Statcade (317,520 on October 18, 2026, 17 readings since October 17, 2026).
- Rank by players
- #4of 309 Steam games with a player count
- Highest reading
- 317,520on October 18, 2026, 17 readings
- Copies sold
- 75 millionall platforms
- Release
- Dec 21, 2017
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS on Statcade: players online on Steam, copies sold, facts and charts.
At a glance
| Developer | PUBG Corporation |
|---|---|
| Publisher | KRAFTON, Inc. |
| Release | Dec 21, 2017 |
| Platform | PC (Steam) |
| Genre | Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer, Free-to-Play |
| Players online on Steam | 300,071 (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026) |
| Players at the 05:00 UTC reading | 300,071 (November 8, 2026, taken at 05:21 UTC) |
| Copies sold | 75 million (all platforms) |
About the game
The description from Steam and the story of the game are available in Italian on the Italian page.
Steam price
Price check of November 8, 2026 on Steam Italy (euros). This game is free on Steam.
Steam reviews: anomalous spikes
Anomalous spike of negative reviews Sep 20–27
From September 20, 2026 to September 27, 2026: 25.051 negative and 2.028 positive reviews in 8 days. On the peak day, September 23, 2026, there were 11.136 negative reviews (97% of that day's total), against a median of 122 per day over the previous 28 days (usual share of negative reviews: 33%).
Steam has already excluded 33,928 negative reviews from its official score, from periods it flagged as “off-topic review activity”: the official score is 61% positive.
How we calculate it
Every day we count how many positive and negative reviews were written on Steam for the game (all languages, both Steam purchases and keys), using Steam's public reviews API. A day counts as an anomalous spike only if, within the last 30 days, all of these conditions hold:
- at least 50 negative reviews on that day, so games with few reviews do not trigger the alarm (once a spike has started, it continues as long as the other conditions hold, even below this figure);
- negative reviews are at least 3 times the median of the previous 28 days and exceed the “median + 5 × MAD” threshold (MAD is the median absolute deviation: it measures how much the counts usually vary, without being dragged by a single odd day);
- the share of negative reviews rises by at least 20 percentage points compared with the previous 28 days and exceeds 50%;
- positive reviews do not grow in the same way: compared with usual, negative reviews increase at least 3 times more than positive ones. Releases, big updates and sales also bring lots of positive reviews, so they do not count as a spike.
The comparison needs at least 21 days with reviews among the previous 28: for games that have just come out we give no verdict. Days already flagged are left out of the comparison for the following days, and flagged days close together form a single spike. The score without the spike removes all reviews, positive and negative, written on the spike days (as Steam does when it excludes a period of “off-topic review activity”). Days are in UTC.
This is not a judgement on the reviews: a spike also contains sincere criticism. We only point out that on those days far more negative reviews than usual came in.
Source: Steam's public reviews API, data up to October 17, 2026 (UTC). Check: most recent negative reviews on Steam; to see only the spike days (September 20, 2026 – September 27, 2026), use the “Date range” filter in the reviews section of the Steam page of the game.
Game signature
Peak at 15:00 · low at 01:00 · the peak is 7.1 times the low
The 24-hour curve as a circle: midnight at the top, the radius is the number of players in each hour (Italian time), the gold dot is the peak hour.
Speedruns
World records and best times in the main categories of PUBG: Battlegrounds on speedrun.com.
Casual (1P) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Mamance66 | 25:56,520 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | xxhl_ModestyBeaver | 26:29,830 (new tab) |
Basic Training (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Kucmosky | 7:06 (new tab) |
Tutorial (Old) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | prak | 1:11,266 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | Celebrity5141 | 1:11,940 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | xxhl_ModestyBeaver | 1:16,480 (new tab) |
Source: speedrun.com (new tab), license CC BY-NC 4.0 (new tab); data selected and reformatted by Statcade (default category and subcategories, updated on a rotating basis). All records: Speedruns.
Italian sentiment
Share of positive Steam reviews written in Italian, compared with the share across all languages.
- In Italian70.4% positive reviews2,739 positive out of 3,889 reviews
- All languages60.5% positive reviews1,663,508 positive out of 2,748,175 reviews
In line with the rest of the world: the difference (+9.9 points) stays below the 10-point threshold.
Source: Steam, user reviews (all purchases), checked on October 18, 2026. What counts is the language the review is written in, not the reviewer's country; “all languages” includes Italian too. All games: Italian sentiment.
When to play to find the most players
Busiest: 15:00–18:00 (on average 636,509 players) Quietest: 00:00–03:00 (114,487 on average)
| Time slot | Average players | Compared with the daily average |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–03:00 quietest | 114,487 | 34% |
| 03:00–06:00 | 160,923 | 48% |
| 06:00–09:00 | 291,665 | 87% |
| 09:00–12:00 | 380,457 | 114% |
| 12:00–15:00 | 589,209 | 177% |
| 15:00–18:00 busiest | 636,509 | 191% |
| 18:00–21:00 | 313,726 | 94% |
| 21:00–24:00 | 181,723 | 54% |
Source: Statcade hourly readings from the Steam Web API GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers, since October 18; times in Italian time (CET/CEST).
How we calculate it
Every hour we record the players online on Steam. We convert each reading to Italian time (daylight saving time included), average each hour over all days and then average each 3-hour slot (00–03, 03–06, … 21–24). Hours in which the reading is anomalous for the whole catalogue are excluded. Players come from all over the world, not just Italy: the slot shows how many people are online on Steam at that Italian time.
Data: Wikipedia, Steam.
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