First released at the start of 2017, PUBG: Battlegrounds (previously known as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) is one of the most popular games on Steam and had 861,598 peak concurrent players in the last recorded month, April 2025. The highest number of concurrent players was recorded in January 2018 at 3.24 million. One of the biggest games on Steam PUBG gained a devoted legion of fans in a short space of time after its release, and cumulative unit sales of the game hit 75 million in December 2021. The game has also been critically acclaimed — it won the Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards in 2017 and its free-to-play mobile version for Android and iOS, released in 2018, was nominated for Best Mobile Game at The 2018 Game Awards. This critical success has also translated into commercial success, as the game generated millions of U.S. dollars of revenue, most successfully in the United States. On January 12, 2022, the game has become free to play. Battle of the Battle Royale games PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an online battle royale game in which up to 100 hundred players battle it out until there is only one player or one team left standing. This format of game has become very popular in recent years. While PUBG has a strong following, especially on Steam, it has come under pressure from rival battle royale game, Fortnite. First released just several months after PUBG, Fortnite has since become a cultural phenomenon, amassing 500 million registered users in just six years. As of 2025, both PUB and Fortnite are still going strong with their loyal audiences.

Twitch is a live streaming platform managed by Twitch Interactive, which is owned by Amazon, mostly focusing on video games and eSports events.Twitch app downloads in Italy peaked on the Google Play Store in May 2020, reaching almost 229 thousand. As of the same month, the app also recorded its highest number of downloads on the Apple App Store, namely 60 thousand.

Daily and monthly active users of the Twitch app Apart from the downloads, looking at the number of daily active users (DAU), and monthly active users (MAU) is also useful to understand the popularity of an app. These metrics consider the users who engage with an app in a certain day or during the whole month. As of the first half of 2020, the number of DAU of the Twitch app in Italy peaked in May. When considering the number of monthly active users instead, the MAU of Twitch more than doubled in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the first quarter of the year.

Most popular games on Twitch As of January 2022, Fortnite was one of the most popular games on Twitch worldwide, recording over 403 thousand viewers on the platform.