The game is set after a fluke storm appears across Earth, causing 98% of the population to disappear, and the survivors to be attacked by zombie-like 'husks'. Fortnite: Save the World is a player-versus-environment cooperative game, with four players collaborating towards a common objective on various missions.The game also launched with the release of the ninth-generation PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles.įortnite is distributed as three different game modes, using the same engine each has similar graphics, art assets, and game mechanics. Save the World is available only for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, while Battle Royale and Creative were released for all those platforms, and also for Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices. Fortnite as a whole generated $9 billion in gross revenue up until December 2019. While the Save the World and Creative versions have been successful for Epic Games, Fortnite Battle Royale in particular became an overwhelming success and a cultural phenomenon, drawing more than 125 million players in less than a year, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per month.

Save the World and Battle Royale were released in 2017 as early access titles, while Creative was released on December 6, 2018. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play battle royale game in which up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative hybrid tower defense- shooter and survival game in which up to four players fight off zombie-like creatures and defend objects with traps and fortifications they can build and Fortnite Creative, in which players are given complete freedom to create worlds and battle arenas. Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017.

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