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PUBG Lite will shut down in late April despite going fully free-to-play
August 03, 2025
You’ll soon have one less way to playPUBG. AsThe Vergenotes, Krafton hasannouncedthat it will shut downPUBG Liteon April 29. The developer has already halted new downloads for the PC-based battle royale title, and the official website is effectively closed. Player support will end on May 29.
The decision to shut downLitedoesn’t affectPUBG Mobile Lite, the phone-oriented equivalent — that game remains intact.
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Krafton didn’t say why it was going to shut downPUBG Lite. There were signs of trouble months earlier, however. The studio made the game completely free-to-play in November 2020, pulling the title’s in-game L-Coin currency. It had only been available since a beta released in January 2019, and updates stopped in early 2020.
If demand was to blame, it wouldn’t be completely surprising. While there aren’t readily available player statistics, it’s no secret that there wasn’t a huge audience — people wereaskingabout a lack of human players in 2019.Litewas built to make thePUBGexperience accessible to people whose modest computers might struggle with the regular game, but the shut down suggests many PC players were content to use the “full” game instead.
PUBG Mobile Liteshould have a safer future. It’s designed to makePUBG Mobileviable on lower-end Android phones, and it has over 100 million installs as of this writing. Even though some of those are likely to be repeats, the downloads suggest there’s a more compelling case for courting budget smartphone owners than there is for entry-level PCs.
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