How many people play Fortnite? Player count in 2024

❘ Updated: 2024-02-28T08:06:00

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Epic Games has seen Fortnite achieve record-breaking player count figures in 2024, all thanks to Season OG, Eminem and LEGO Fortnite. Here are all the stats along with its current player count.

Despite Fortnite arguably peaking between 2017-2019, when it first launched, the Battle Royale has still proven to be one of the most popular games over the years. Its main Battle Royale competition has come from Call of Duty’s Warzone and Apex Legends.

Fortnite has developed and maintained a passionate fanbase for the game, with many still playing since its first chapter. It has also become widely known for its major collaborations and crossovers, which always have caused a surge in players. These include anything from mainstream music stars of Ariana Grande, Eminem and The Weeknd, to global franchises of Marvel and Star Wars to name a few.

However, Fortnite saw a monumental resurgence in popularity towards the end of 2023. Firstly, its nostalgic Chapter 1-focused Season OG instantly led to record-breaking peak player counts. Eminem soon headlined the stage in The Big Bang live event, and then three groundbreaking modes of Rocket Racing, Festival and most notably LEGO Fortnite followed, which smashed more player count records.

But, exactly how many people actually play Fortnite in 2024? Is the Battle Royale showing any signs of dying? Or is Fortnite just going to continue on its upward trajectory? Here are all the figures and stats.

Fortnite Season OG returned players to the Chapter 1 map, complete with all the fan-favorite classics.

Fortnite player count in 2024

Epic Games provides live player count numbers from directly within its game, which can be seen under each game mode from the Discover screen as part of the Lobby menu. However, they don’t often make public the overall Fortnite player count information, but this year’s popularity has made it a bit different.

Following the release of Season OG, Fortnite instantly achieved 44.7 million players in just one day to shatter their previous record set by Travis Scott’s in-game event with 12.3 million users. Epic admitted that the OG Season “far exceeded our expectations,” further announcing that it would return in 2024.

This wasn’t all, they revealed: “Fortnite fans broke another record,” after it was reported they achieved over 100 million players in the month of November, thanks to Fortnite OG.

Fast forward to The Big Bang live event, Eminem drew a close to Chapter 4’s Season OG, bringing three groundbreaking modes in the form of Festival, Rocket Racing and LEGO Fortnite to Chapter 5. It was the latter, with LEGO’s Minecraft-style mode that catapulted Fortnite once again to set it’s live peak player count record of over 6.6 million concurrent users at one time.

In terms of yearly, Epic confirmed that in 2020, there was over 350 million registered players on Fortnite. In 2021, the number of users had risen to more than 400 million and over 350 million in 2022. For 2023, these figures have not yet been released, but are expected to follow the theme and break more records by pushing to over 500 million, when revealed in 2024.

LEGO Fortnite art with characters facing the game's world

Fortnite smashed player count records in 2023, with a huge reason being because of LEGO Fortnite.

So, is Fortnite dying?

No, Fortnite is not dying, after 2023 caused Epic Games to smash several player count records over the year, the game is doing the opposite and has no signs of slowing down for 2024.

Millions of players have continued to log in every day throughout 2023, especially towards the end of the year. This all thanks to Eminem’s The Big Bang live event, Season OG and LEGO Fortnite unleashing a whole new popularity surge to the game. It’s therefore safe to say that Fortnite is not dying.

All their modes including Battle Royale, Ranked, Creative, Festival, Rocket Racing and LEGO Fortnite are all continuing to be developed on as we head into 2024. Taking this into consideration, it will be certainly interesting to see if they can set further records this year and how they will impact the game.

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