From kids who played the game on their Nintendo Switch to professional gamers who duked it out in official competitions, this game became a way of life for millions of players. Because of Fortnite’s popularity, it even managed to close the door on Minecraft as the most successful game since it was released in 2011.

Game modes

Fortnite has multiple game modes, using the same engine; each has similar graphics and art assets. Five of these modes are directly created and managed by Epic Games and its subsidiaries:

• Fortnite: Save the World is a player-versus-environment cooperative game, with four players collaborating towards a common objective on various missions while avoiding the effects of an encroaching cataclysmic storm. The players take the role of commanders of home base shelters, collecting resources, saving survivors, and defending equipment that helps to either collect data on the storm or to push back the storm. From missions, players are awarded a number of in-game items, which include hero characters, weapon and trap schematics, and survivors, all of which can be levelled up through gained experience to improve their attributes.
• Fortnite Battle Royale is a player-versus-player game for up to 100 players, allowing one to play alone, in a duo, or in a squad (usually consisting of three or four players). Weaponless players airdrop from a “Battle Bus” that crosses the game’s map and then scavenge for weapons, items, and resources while trying to stay alive and attack and eliminate other players. Over the course of a round, the safe area of the map shrinks down in size due to an incoming toxic storm; players outside that threshold take damage and can be eliminated if they fail to quickly evacuate. This forces remaining players into tighter spaces and encourages player encounters until the last player or team is alive.
• Lego Fortnite is a survival sandbox game, where players play as Lego Minifig versions of characters, as they collect materials, build various buildings, craft various weapons and tools and fight against monsters.
• Rocket Racing is a racing game, developed by Psyonix and serving as a spin-off title to Rocket League. Players race vehicles, gaining speed boosts from special lane sections or by drifting, as well as the ability to jump and race on vertical and inverted surfaces while avoiding obstacles on the course.
• Fortnite Festival is a rhythm game developed by Harmonix, consisting of two modes. In the “Main Stage”, players play popular rock songs, hitting notes to the rhythm in the Main Stage on one of the four unique parts: Lead, Guitar/Bass, Drums and Vocals, like Harmonix’s Rock Band games.^[4] In the “Jam Stage”, players cooperate to make remixes, similar to Harmonix’s Dropmix and Fuser, using any part of any song within Festival mode.