Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic’s money-printing battle royale, still exists, and after nearly a decade it’s going free to play
Well, here’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Fortnite: Save the World, the game that gave us Epic’s absurdly popular battle royale, has been quietly persisting for the better part of a decade, just chilling in the shadow of its offspring. And now it’s going free to play.
I know: was it not F2P already? Apparently not!
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Fortnite Battle Royale became synonymous with Fortnite—if anyone said “Fortnite”, they were inevitably talking about the spin-off, not Save the World. And you could be forgiven for assuming that Save the World had gone the way of the dodo (and other Epic live service games like Paragon).