Deathmatch or
Free-For-All (
FFA, also called
DM or
Player vs All) is a widely used gameplay mode integrated into many
shooter and
real-time strategy (RTS)
video games. Normally the goal of a deathmatch game is to kill (or "frag", from the
military term) as many other players as possible until a certain condition or limit is reached, commonly being a
frag limit or time limit. Once one of these conditions is met, the match is over and the winner is the player that accumulated the greatest number of frags. It is an evolution of the competitive
multiplayer modes found in genres such as
fighting games and
racing video games.