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.
