In August 2018, Fortnite logged its most number of players in a given month, with 78.3 million unique accounts logging into the game.It, however, leads the battle royale genre, with its main competitors being EA’s Apex Legends and PUBG Corporation’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.Fortnite is the third most-played video game in the United States as of 2019, only behind Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, in that order.In April 2020 alone, players have spent a combined 3.2 billion hours in the game.A little over a year later, this figure has increased to 350 million by the end of April 2020.There were 250 million unique Fortnite players in total as of March 2019.Fortnite Battle Royale was launched in 2017, making it just over two years old.Note: we will be calling “Fortnite Battle Royale” as simply “Fortnite” for simplicity’s sake throughout this article.

Epic Games realized they could capitalize on this genre and used Fortnite to develop a separate game mode, later releasing it as a stand-alone game called “Fortnite Battle Royale.” Its first iteration, “Save the World,” is a hybrid of a shooter game in the vein of Left 4 Dead with tower defense elements and building, similar to Minecraft.ĭuring its development, however, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds launched, which introduced players to a battle royale gameplay. Anecdotally, I saw it on my own friend's list, with people playing one, and then the other.Not many people know that Fortnite’s history goes back to 2011, over half a decade before its most popular game mode, battle royale, was launched in September 2017. That makes it nothing at all like a sim racer.Īnd I'm sure many people cross over between adventure games and shooters, Forza Horizon and Halo included. It has a main quest, side quests/challenges, it has a progression system, it rewards exploration. It's far more accurate to think of it as an adventure game, as that's how it's structured.

I would say the majority of the game's content is not racing-based, given there's such a big map to explore, but that would in part come down to how the person chose to approach it. What's 'racing' about a solo challenge? What's 'racing' about a reward for exploring a section of a map? What's 'racing' about finding and restoring a 'barn find' car?

The Forza Horizon games not only have reams of solo challenges, they have tonnes of content that's simply exploration-based. I often play it for days without entering a single race. It's a driving adventure game (as opposed to an adventure game where you're on foot, or on horseback). Your repeated suggestion that it's a sim racer is wrong.

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