“Fear not, Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival are here to stay–with regular updates.”
Fortnite recently added three new games–Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival, and developer Epic has clarified that these are not limited-time modes for those who are unaware.
Epic stated that these are full games that will not be discontinued. “Fear not, Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival are here to stay–with regular updates,” Epic wrote. These games are displayed as tiles on the Fortnite home page alongside Fortnite’s numerous other modes, so it’s understandable that some people mistook them for modes.
In another post on X, former Fortnite boss Donald Mustard shared an image of Epic’s original game plan from six years ago. He stated that the original intention was to make Fortnite a “place” rather than a game, and that vision has now come to fruition, or at least the beginning stages of it.
“It was such a HUGE, audacious, vision. We knew it would take YEARS and SO much work on so many fronts,” Mustard said.
The plan “changed and evolved” several times, according to Mustard, but the intention was for it to take six years. That’s roughly how long it took. “Today you are playing the TRUE vision of the Fortnite dream,” Mustard explained.
Fortnite has evolved from what it was when it was only a battle royale game. Fortnite now has a slew of non-battle royale modes, including Creative, a sandbox for user-generated content, and it’s only getting bigger with the addition of Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival.
The scope of Fortnite is mind-boggling. Fortnite reached 2.3 million concurrent players across all modes this past weekend, the first since the launch of the three new games.