CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterGuinness World Records[1], DualShockers[4] and Wikipedia[3] all give 23 March 2017 for the Steam Early Access launch; the official Steam Early Access launch trailer was posted to YouTube that day. Steam's store page now shows the 1.0 date (21 Dec 2017) instead, since that is the full release.
Bluehole released PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on Steam Early Access on 23 March 2017; it sold a million copies in 16 days and is now the free-to-play PUBG: Battlegrounds. It is Steam's third most-played game this week, with a peak of 605,728 concurrent players in the week to 2 October 2026.
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