Fortnite
It's from 2018, when you were 12.
- Developer
- Epic Games
- Genre
- Battle royale
- Debut
- 2017
- Model
- Free-to-play
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About
As of 2026, it's 8 years old.
Fortnite went supernova in 2017 by taking the battle-royale formula — 100 players, one shrinking island, one winner — adding the ability to build forts mid-firefight, and then becoming less a game than a place teenagers simply exist. It hosts concerts, movie trailers, and crossover events with basically every franchise on Earth.
Free to play and funded by an endless parade of cosmetic skins and dances, it turned 'are you any good' into 'what's your skin' and gave parents a new word to fear: 'the storm.'
Colorful, cultural, and genuinely everywhere, Fortnite is the game that stopped being a game and became a generation's hangout spot.
