Multiplayer: Last Man Standing

Video game concept

Includes a multiplayer mode where the winner is the player who is the last one alive or the team with the only surviving players. There is no respawning during a match, or it is severely limited per player or per team.

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platforms

Alternate names: Elimination, Last Team Standing
Name variations: LTS, LMS, Last One Standing, Last Person Standing, Battle Royale

Threat

DOS 1995

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms

WIN 1999-05-31

Heroes of Might and Magic

DOS 1995

Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal

DOS 1996-04-30

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

WIN 2007-09-05

Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties

WIN 2007-10-16

StarCraft: Brood War

MAC 1998

Warhammer – Mark of Chaos

WIN 2006-11-14

Dawn of War II

WIN 2009-02-19

Command & Conquer: Generals

WIN 2003-02-12

Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising

WIN 2010-03-11

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

WIN 2007-09-24

This is the norm in strategy games and is often called Free-for-All when no teams are used.

In shooters this is quite straightforward with each player controlling single character who after death loses that round.

In strategy games, this may mean that the all player's units and facilities need to be destroyed, though this may actually only require destroying their capacity to produce more units and buildings or simply killing the army commander.

NOT to be confused with some variations of deathmatch which count deaths to determine victory. Though some games may offer a limited number of lives for each player so the first loss is not the final.

Parent group

Multiplayer game modes

Games by year

The first Multiplayer: Last Man Standing video game was released on March 14, 1991.

THQ, Blizzard Entertainment and 2K Games published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		73
Linux		16
Mac OS X		10
MS-DOS		7
Mac OS Classic		6
X360		3
Xbox One		3
PS3		2
Android		2
iOS		2
BeOS		1
BSD		1
PS4		1

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