The challenge for Anthony Castoro, Daybreak’s new general manager on the project, is to keep King of the Kill’s playerbase happy and get their numbers growing again. Since June, according to Steamcharts, it’s barely lost any players at all. It was Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene who consulted on and helped to create the Battle Royale mode that would go on to become H1Z1: King of the Kill.Īnd yet, even with the explosive growth of Battlegrounds - the first game to overtake Valve’s own Dota 2 in concurrent players in years - H1Z1: King of the Kill has held its own. That’s because it shares a lineage with Steam’s hottest title right now, a little game called Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. King of the Kill’s gameplay should sound familiar. The winners, Obey Alliance, took home $180,000. Host Jessica Chobot during The CW Network’s H1Z1: Fight for the Crown. To date, it’s the only game in Steam’s Early Access program to get it’s own televised prime-time special. It’s been the more popular product by far, and has gone on to become a premiere competitive game for both consumers and esports professionals. It leaned into the fast-paced, last-man-standing style of gameplay found in the original Battle Royale mode. The other game was called H1Z1: King of the Kill. It retained the original’s focus on surviving in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled world. The first was called H1Z1: Just Survive and was later renamed Just Survive. It was so popular that for months after it launched getting into a match was nearly impossible.Ī year after it came out, developer Daybreak Game Company split H1Z1 into two different games. It was a tertiary game mode called Battle Royale, where more than 100 players would parachute onto the map, scavenge for weapons and armor and then fight to the death. But the most interesting part of that product didn’t have anything to do with the undead. H1Z1: King of the Kill and its sibling, Just Survive, are a curious pair.īoth games were launched into Steam’s Early Access program more than two and a half years ago as H1Z1, a zombie-themed online multiplayer survival game.
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