The game differs from other Battle Royales by allowing players to construct defensive structures and buildings as well as to destroy virtually every object in the environment. We will be focusing on the PvP aspects of the game only in this guide, meaning the Battle RoyaleĪ match normally consists of a solo drop with 100 players or can alternatively be played with 2-3 other friends for a max squad size of four.
The game finances itself through cosmetic microtransactions, which enable players to purchase character and weapon skins with both real money and in-game currencies as well as through the purchasing of a Battle Pass model which rewards the player with exclusive goodies by accomplishing certain milestones. It was released in February 2017 on almost all platforms and has become a veritable cultural phenomenon. Epic Games really pushed for the battle royal genre to become mainstream and kept on innovating with a co-operative PvE mode (Save the World) and a sandbox mode (Fortnite Creative). Fortnite is perhaps one of the most well known free-to-play cross-platform games ever developed.
