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Esports has risen to great heights in India in the past few years, and the demand for online games have continued to increase among the fans with new players taking centre stage. When the question about the best Esports game in India comes up, Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) takes the top spot, with exclusive availability in the country.
BGMI is an online multiplayer battle royale game, developed by Krafton with its initial release, happening on July 2, 2021 for Android devices, while the iOS devices got the first taste of it on August 18, 2021. But when the Indian government banned the game on July 28, 2022 for data being reportedly sent to Chinese servers, resulting in its removal from Play Store and App Store, Krafton managed to get the ban on the game overturned on May 26, 2023.
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The relaunch of BGMI on a trial period after 10-month long dispute saw it become playable for gamers only after May 29, 2023 on Android and iOS. Since then, this TPP-FPP survival shooter game involving 100 players competing in a battle royale, a last man standing deathmatch, has achieved a new surge of growth in India.
Notably, BGMI had 134 million downloads on Play Store before its initial removal from the platform by the Indian government, but after the relaunch, its popularity among the gamers in the country has only been bigger and better. Moreover, the seven maps wherein the players are parachuted from a plane to start the BGMI game are Erangel, Miramar, Vikendi, Livik, Karakin, Sanhok, and Nusa, wherein they are tasked to achieve the mission to be the lone survivor.
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In 2023, the Battlegrounds Mobile India Series (BGIS) was organised, wherein hundreds of teams participated for the coveted title in the Indian esports scene. The final of the BGIS 2023 was held at the NSCI Dome in Mumbai in front of 6,000 fans where the winners Team Gladiators, secured a prize money of INR 75 Lakh, while the second place went to Big Brother Esports (INR 37.50 Lakh), and the Team X Spark finished third (INR 25 Lakh), all getting facilitated by the chief guest Neeraj Chopra, the reigning Olympic and World Champion Indian athlete.
