It’s fun and it has a very silly, offbeat sense of humour. Pick your starting spot, then parachute down, steering your randomized, generic character to the ground.

Once 100 players (or close to it) join a match, everyone boards the hot air balloon-propelled bus towards a large island. Both game modes were released in 2017 as early access titles Save the World is available only for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, while Battle Royale has been released for those platforms, Nintendo Switch, and iOS devices for now.įortnite: Battle Royale mimics the standard Battle Royale format: 100 players enter in a large arena, last person standing wins. Fortnite is a 2017 video game developed by Epic Games which has been released as different software packages featuring different game modes that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine. The game modes include Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative shooter-survival game for up to four players to fight off zombie-like husks and defend objects with fortifications they can build, and Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play battle royale game where up to 100 players fight in increasingly-smaller spaces to be the last person standing.