History Main / BattleRoyaleGame

* The match itself is regulated with a target score and/or time limit that will eventually guarantee a victor. The time limit is usually an AdvancingWallOfDoom in the form of an enclosing circle of fire, energy, electricity, deadly fog, or what have you.

* Players have to find weaponry and medical aid items to keep themselves alive.

In the late 2010s, however, this concept became the [[FromClonesToGenre biggest new video game craze to hit the industry]] due to the shift it made to CompetitiveMultiplayer. Inspired by the film adaptation of the aforementioned ''Battle Royale'', it started as a mod in ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}}'', but the concept expanded into other games, and by 2017, became ''the'' dominant trend in video games thanks to the overwhelming popularity of ''VideoGame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'', which itself was quickly surpassed by ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}''.

In the late 2010's, however, this concept became the [[FromClonesToGenre biggest new video game craze to hit the industry]] due to the shift it made to CompetitiveMultiplayer. Inspired by the film adaptation of the aforementioned ''Battle Royale'', it started as a mod in ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}}'', but the concept expanded into other games, and by 2017, became ''the'' dominant trend in video games thanks to the overwhelming popularity of ''VideoGame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'', which itself was quickly surpassed by ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}''.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' announced the "Nuclear Winter" expansion at E3 2019, which adds a Battle Royale mode. Vault 51 was designed to not have an Overseer looking after its residents. It has the unique social experiment that if anyone wants to become the Overseer, they need to be the last one alive to rightfully claim it. Players need to scavenge for armor, weapons, and supplies while dealing with both other players and the [[NuclearNasty irradiated wildlife]] of Appalachia before being engulfed in a ring of fire.

* ''Knives Out'' by [=NetEase=] is one of the first PUBG Mobile clones, with 100-player lobbies landing on an island and battling to be the last team alive.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' was originally designed as a single-player ZombieApocalypse survival game where you needed to build up defenses to hold off the Husks, but the developers saw the potential in a BR mode and shifted much of their team to work on that. The end result was an absolute juggernaut. Its Free-To-Play model combined with the cartoonish graphics, intuitive controls, smooth performance even on lower-end hardware and consoles, and building mechanics quickly made it one of the most played, most streamed, and most viewed video games in 2017, 2018, and 2019. In addition to the single-player, the game features different modes such as forming up in team groups of 4 or setting 50 vs. 50 players.

This is the video game equivalent and subtrope of DeadlyGame (where the victor is the last one ''alive.'') Compare with MeleeATrois (in which three or more factions or individuals are locked in a battle with no predetermined alliances). Related to SurvivalSandbox.

* The match itself is regulated with a time limit that will eventually guarantee a victor. The time limit is usually an AdvancingWallOfDoom in the form of an enclosing circle of fire, energy, electricity, deadly fog, or what have you.

* ''Free Fire'', a smaller, more mobile alternative released before PUBG released their mobile versions. While Free Fire is highly popular (usually goes toe to toe with PUBG in Google Play's chart) in South East Asia and South America due to the lower system requirements, the game's more arcade-ish spins, different gun handling (where bullet spread is likelier the farther the gun shoots) and reliance on powerups and exclusive, time-limited skins with stat modifiers has made some player accuse it as an AllegedlyFreeGame that relies on BribingYourWayToVictory.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' was originally designed as a single player ZombieApocalypse survival game where you needed to build up defenses to hold off the Husks, but the developers saw the potential in a BR mode and shifted much of their team to work on that. The end result was an absolute juggernaut. Its Free-To-Play model combined with the cartoonish graphics, intuitive controls, smooth performance even on lower end hardware and consoles, and building mechanics quickly made it one of the most played, most streamed, and most viewed video games in 2017, 2018, and 2019. In addition to single player, the game features different modes such as forming up in team groups of 4, or setting 50 vs. 50 players.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Forza}} Forza Horizon 4]]'' is a RacingGame example with The Eliminator (available since Update 17), which is a BR but instead of just 'killing' cars, you eliminate players by challenging them to a short face-off and winning it, with the option to keep your car, upgrade it or [[KlingonPromotion use the one from your foe]]. When 10 players remain, any face-offs are canceled and instead everyone races to a final race placed in a random point across the map: the first one to make it there wins.

* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'', an ActionRPG primarily played as PlayerVersusEnvironment retooled itself into this genre as a 2017 AprilFoolsDay joke, becoming ''Path of Exile: Royale'' temporarily. Winners were awarded "Rhoa dinners"[[note]]Rhoa are aggressive birds based on the RealLife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa Moa]] native to Grinding Gear Games home of New Zealand[[/note]] as trophies to display in their customizable HomeBase.

** ''[[VideoGame/Tetris99]]'' pits 99 players against each other. Clearing lines and racking up combos will send junk lines to other players. The game tells you who you're sending junk to, and who's sending it your way.

** ''[[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} Tetris 99]]'' pits 99 players against each other. Clearing lines and racking up combos will send junk lines to other players. The game tells you who you're sending junk to, and who's sending it your way.

A similar variation is the Last Man Standing or Last Team Standing mode. Players generally have a limited number of lives rather than a time limit, and players usually start with a predetermined selection of equipment to use. Once you're out of lives, you're limited to just spectating for the rest of the match.

** ''[[VideoGame/PacMan PAC-MAN 99]]'' pits 99 players against each other in the original ''Pac-Man''. Eating the ghosts sends Jammer Pac-Man to the other players that slows them down if they touch them.

** ''[[VideoGame/PacMan PAC-MAN 99]]'' pits 99 players against each other in the original ''Pac-Man''. Eating the ghosts sends Jammer Pac-Men to the other players that slows them down if they touch them.

* ''[[VideoGame/PacMan PAC-MAN 99]]'' pits 99 players against each other in the original ''Pac-Man''. Eating the ghosts sends Jammer Pac-Men to the other players that slows them down if they touch them.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35'' pits 35 players against one another as they run through levels from the first ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' game. Enemies that players defeat are sent to other player's levels, and coins can be used to obtain a randomly selected power-up. In addition, players are on a time limit that can be extended by defeating enemies, clearing levels, or collecting Fire Flowers as Fire Mario. Successfully KO'ing an opponent earns players the victim's coins and remaining time.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} Tetris 99]]'' pits 99 players against each other. Clearing lines and racking up combos will send junk lines to other players. The game tells you who you're sending junk to, and who's sending it your way.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros35'', similar to ''Tetris 99'' below, pits 35 players against one another as they run through levels from the first ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' game. Enemies that players defeat are sent to other player's levels, and coins can be used to obtain a randomly selected power-up. In addition, players are on a time limit that can be extended by defeating enemies, clearing levels, or collecting Fire Flowers as Fire Mario. Successfully KO'ing an opponent earns players the victim's coins and remaining time.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} Tetris 99]]'' pits 99 players against each other. Clearing lines and racking up combos will send junk lines to a random player. The game tells you who you're sending junk to, and who's sending it your way. Sometimes the RandomNumberGod will just say "screw you" and have multiple enemies send junk your way.

The Battle Royale genre has its roots in one of the earliest multiplayer modes, the ''Death Match'', where the winning condition are the same - be the last one standing. However Death Match games, being from the infancy of multiplayer network gaming, are much simpler and do not have all the mentioned features, starting players off with a default weapon and armor and at a predetermined spawn point instead of allowing players to choose their starting point by means of parachuting out of an airborne transport and starting them off unarmed and vulnerable. Lastly, there is usually no advancing wall of doom mechanic or time limit, the game round only ends when there's only one player left - in practice, this was not a problem as the player count would usually be quite low (VideoGame/{{Doom}}, the game that introduced the concept of death matches to the world, had a maximum headcount of 4), largely due to the limitation of computing power of servers and the low network speeds back in the days.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 35'' similar to ''Tetris 99'' below, pits 35 players against one another as they run through levels from the first ''Super Mario'' game. Enemies that players defeat are sent to other player's levels, and coins can be used to obtain a randomly selected power-up. In addition, players are on a time limit that can be extended by defeating enemies and clearing levles. Successfully KO'ing an opponent earns players the victim's coins and remaining time.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 35'' is a battle royale version of the first ''Super Mario Bros.'' with 35 players, to coincide with the [[MilestoneCelebration 35th anniversary]] of the original game. Defeating enemies causes them to appear on other players' levels

* ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros. 35]]'', similar to ''Tetris 99'' below, pits 35 players against one another as they run through levels from the first ''Super Mario'' game. Enemies that players defeat are sent to other player's levels, and coins can be used to obtain a randomly selected power-up.