PUBG: Battlegrounds cost to play

PUBG: Battlegrounds is free to play. Its 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 806,873 players online at the same moment, in the 30 days to 12 November 2026, and that counts Steam alone, not consoles. In a battle royale, gunfights are decided in milliseconds, so if you play over satellite internet, see how Starlink's latency compares with fibre for shooters.

Why there are no drop rates here

Krafton sells random items, including Contraband Crates and Black Market Cargo, but it shows their odds only inside the game. Its own store update tells players to find them under Hideout, Contraband, More Details, Probability to acquire. There's no public web page we can cite, so we don't list rates. Krafton also says items with random contents, including the Survivor Pass, can't be bought in Belgium or the Netherlands.

How it plays

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is a free-to-play online battle royale shooter, the game Krafton credits with starting the genre. Each match follows the same pattern: land, loot and survive.

You drop onto one of a changing selection of maps and choose where to land, either on the quieter outskirts, where you risk not finding enough gear, or straight into dense cities, where fighting starts as soon as you touch the ground. You then collect weapons, attachments, supplies and special tools, and can go after the contested Care Packages for unique items.

As time passes the Safe Zone shrinks, pushing the survivors closer together. If you die you are out, and the aim is to be the last one standing. Away from battle royale there is Team Deathmatch, rotating modes in the Arcade, seasonal events and custom lobbies for playing with friends.

What it costs

On the PlayStation Store UK, G-Coin packs run from £3.99 for 500 to £39.99 for 6,000 (5,000 plus 1,000 extra). Krafton's Black Market 2026 notice prices one Cargo at 250 G-Coin and ten at 2,500.

At the 500 G-Coin pack price, one Cargo works out at 250 ÷ 500 × £3.99 = about £2.00, and ten at about £19.95 (2,500 ÷ 500 × £3.99). The larger packs bring that down: at the 6,000 G-Coin pack, 2,500 G-Coin is 2,500 ÷ 6,000 × £39.99, about £16.66. In practice you can only buy whole packs, so what you actually pay depends on the coins you have left over.

How we checked

G-Coin costs of Cargo come from Krafton's own news post. Prices are the PlayStation Store UK listings on 29 September 2026, and the player figure is the 30-day peak of concurrent Steam players on Steam Charts, read on 12 November 2026. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.

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