Fortnite— the free-to-play game from Epic Games— has been carving out an increasingly large niche in the industry. It’s impossible to find someone who doesn’t know it, but do as many people still play it as before? What is its popularity in 2023? Will it continue to receive new content this year?
Fortnite, a battle royale turned into a mass phenomenon
What started out as a free battle royale is now the most popular video game— at least currently. Fortnite is known to everyone, whether they play or not, and defining it as a shooter game in which 100 people face off on a map that keeps getting smaller and smaller has long since ceased to make sense— it is a platform that hosts a multitude of ways to play and meet other people and even has creative tools.
Is Fortnite still popular in 2023?
Perhaps it is because of this way of knowing how to recycle itself that it continues to be so popular. Although it’s been almost six years since its original release, Fortnite continues to break its own records for concurrent players. Official figures show that in 2020 there were more than 200 players— a figure that doubled the following year. As of today, exact data for this year has not yet been shared, but according to external portals, the number of current Fortnite players would be around 230 million in the last 30 days— which bodes very well for the end of 2023.
The latest Fortnite new features
That Fortnite keeps its active player base constantly growing is no coincidence— Epic Games strives to update the game every few years, either with minor releases that fix bugs and bring new content or with more significant updates that include collaborations, new game modes, events, and many other new features.
For example, one of the most important updates Fortnite received in 2023 was the one that introduced the Creative 2.0 mode— this is a tool that allows you to create islands to share with other players, something that already existed but has been improved by giving the possibility to practically build new video games within Fortnite. Today there are already horror games, adventure games, first-person shooters, etc. —everything created with this new tool.
In addition to that, it should also be noted that Fortnite is constantly receiving new collaborations, each time with more and more recognized sagas around the world— among its latest crossovers, we find franchises such as Attack on Titan, Star Wars, Resident Evil, Dragon Ball, The Witcher, Marvel or My Hero Academia. The best thing about these collaborations is that many of them include not only skins of their most famous characters but also new gameplays that add a touch of dynamism and fun to the games.
What new content is coming soon to Fortnite in 2023?
Looking at the pace and level of Fortnite updates, what significant developments can we expect in 2023? Epic Games announces the changes with little advance notice, but the leaks accounts do their work daily to try to guess what content will be the next to arrive in the game— according to Fortnite leaks, this year we could see such important novelties as a first-person game mode, different from the classic third-person camera, and new collaborations with sagas as beloved by the community as One Piece or Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. However, there is still no official confirmation of these leaks.
