PC Game Market June: Realm Royale breaks the rankings

Rise of Battle Royale Games

This June, the most notable is the new free-to-play game from Hi-Rez Studios, Realm Royalea new member in Top 20 most played PC games.

With Realm Royale, Hi-Rez Studios – the developers of Smite and Paladins – intends to join the battle royale trend that is booming. Realm Royale has a gameplay similar to other games of the same genre, in which 100 players will fight to find the last survivor, each player must search for weapons and skills in chests scattered throughout the map. .

If Fortnite has a unique construction mechanism, Realm Royale also has unique gameplay elements to help this game stand out from other games of the same genre: the game is set in a fantasy setting, can trigger horse riding to move around the map faster, and there is a character class system that allows players to choose 1 of 5 different playstyles. An interesting detail is that the game was originally developed under the name Paladins Battlegrounds, but then Hi-Rez decided to launch the game as a standalone game.

The number of people playing Hi-Rez games skyrocketed

The early successes of Realm Royale helped Hi-Rez Studios jump from #19 in May to #11 on the June Publishers chart. In fact, 5% of PC gamers played Hi-Rez games during the month. 6 compared to only 2.1% and 1.7% in May and April. It is also the most played Hi-Rez game globally: of those who played Hi-Rez in June, 71.5% played Realm. Royale, 23.4% played Paladins and 14.6% played Smite.

At the country level, Realm Royale is most popular in the Nordic region: 6.2% of Danish players play Realm Royale, while this is 6.1% for Sweden and 5.9% for Norway – and children the global average is 3.6%.

Realm Royale is popular with Hi-Rez fans and Battle Royale fans in the US

Many battle royale players from previous months in the US have switched to Realm Royale this June. 21.2% of those who stopped playing H1Z1: King of the Kill switched to Realm Royale, this is 9.7% for PUBG and 8.8% for Fortnite. In addition, the average duration of Realm Royale is 47 minutes, much lower than Fortnite’s 86 minutes. Many US players have also switched to Realm Royale from older Hi-Rez games: 15.2% of players who quit Paladins and 13.7% of players who quit Smite have switched to Realm Royale.

It is obvious that many of the people who played other Hi-Rez games in the US in June also played Realm Royale. 29% of Paladins players and 23.6% of Smite players also play Realm Royale, which is not surprising given that Realm Royale ads appear in other Hi-Rez titles, not to mention this battle royale title. was originally intended to be used as additional content for Paladins. In addition, this June, players of other battle royale titles in the US also play Realm Royale, including players H1Z1: King of the Kill (23.6%), PUBG (14.5%) and Fortnite (13.1%). Notably, 11.6% of Overwatch gamers in North America also tried playing Realm Royale in June.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is the 2nd most played PC game of the month

In this month’s Top 20 PC games, Hearthstone has climbed to #2 – up 2 places from last month. The reason for this is probably because Hearthstone’s 11.2 update, released on June 5, added a number of new features, fixed bugs and improved gameplay. In addition, Fortnite has dropped to 4th place from 2nd place in May, while PUBG has maintained its performance at #3. This achievement of PUBG in June is probably due to the Sanhok map released on June 22, a highly anticipated map of the game.

Blizzard’s Diablo III is the most impressive rank climbing game, climbing 9 places to #17. A new face to the June chart is Bethesda’s Fallout 4. Fallout 4’s entry into the charts can be attributed to the heat at E3 of the next game in the series, Fallout 76.

According to Newzoo