The novel and especially its film adaptation have been influential in global popular culture, inspiring numerous works of fiction in a number of different media, particularly in East Asia and the Western world. Since the film's release, the term "battle royale" has been used to refer to a fictional narrative genre and/or mode of entertainment inspired by the film, where a select group of people are instructed to kill each off until there is a triumphant survivor. The "battle royale" phenomenon has become especially popular in the 2010s. A video game genre with the same name became popular in the 2010s, with games such as "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", "Fortnite Battle Royale", and "Apex Legends" setting player-count records. Other works focused on the doubt and mistrust among a group of people in a "murder game", such as the "Saw" film series, "The Cube", and games in the "Danganronpa" series.