Fortnite vs PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds (best battle royale videogames)

Daniel Soresco
3 min readAug 12, 2019

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Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017 It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite: Save the World , a cooperative shooter — survival game for up to four players to fight off zombie -like creatures and defend objects with fortifications they can build; Fortnite Battle Royale , a free-to-play “Battle Royale” game where up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing; and Fortnite Creative , where players are given complete freedom to create worlds and battle arenas.

Fortnite Video Game
Fortnite Video Game

While the game had some traction, the popularity of Fortnite skyrocketed when Epic implemented its Battle Royale mode, effectively mimicking the core gameplay of another successful game called “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (known as PUBG). Although Fortnite,” released July 25, 2017, is really popular, some argue that Epic copied PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds,” otherwise known as PUBG,” released in December 2017 with their Battle Royale game mode.

Fortnite Video Game
Fortnite by Epic Games

The people behind PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) — an earlier Player-versus-Player (PVP) Battle Royale game, which also whittles 100 contestants down to a single survivor — are claiming their intellectual property rights have been infringed by Epic Games, the company which makes Fortnite.

In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds there’s a massive variety of weapons and items — with cosmetics available in PUBG crates There many more weapons and items in PUBG than Fortnite Battle Royale, so things can get complex for players who have not played military sims before. Bluehole took PC gaming by storm with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds but, since you can never have too much of a good thing, Epic Games introduced its own battle royale mode for Fortnite. Even though it was released less than a year ago, Fortnite Battle Royale already boasts 125 million players, according to its publisher, Epic Games.

For some time now, Epic Games’s battle royale effort has been a bigger beast than PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, winning the fight when it comes to the Fortnite vs PUBG player count. Fortnight is one of the best survival xbox one games by sales, even if PUBG it is not bad at all.

Fortnite by Epic Games
Fortnite Xbox One PS4 Videogame

Thankfully, unlike other battle royale games, like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, where an unlucky circle could leave getting out of the encroaching circle almost impossible, Fortnite’s map is at least small enough (relative to PUBG’s) that even if you have to run across the entire island to get to the safety of the randomly centered eye of the storm you run very little risk of being killed by the collapsing border. With constant changes rolled out to the map , weapons, gameplay modes, and systems, Epic Games has managed to keep millions of players invested.

Helping “Fortnite” gain popularity was Epic’s decision to make the Battle Royale mode free to play, giving players interested in PUBG a very similar game to play, but without having to pay anything upfront.

While the first two games have been successful for Epic Games, Fortnite Battle Royale became a resounding success, drawing in more than 125 million players in less than a year and earning hundreds of millions of dollars per month, and since has become a cultural phenomenon.

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Daniel Soresco
Daniel Soresco

Written by Daniel Soresco

I have fun playing video games and occasionally I write reviews.

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