


You get just five slots, so you’re forced to balance your arsenal of guns with your need for healing or explosives to deal with enemy structures. But as the battle royale genre started to gain popularity early in 2017, Epic adapted its survival game’s basic systems into something new: Fortnite Battle Royale, a separate, free-to-play game that feels like the perfect home for Save the World’s wayward mechanics.įortnite Battle Royale’s inventory management is, thankfully, simple by design. That version, now a standalone game called Fortnite Save the World, still exists, but it’s not great. Wait, Which Fortnite Is This? Developed by Epic Games, Fortnite was originally conceived as a third-person, co-op, survival game where teams of players could mine resources and build structures to hold off hordes of undead enemies. Each city is full of vibrant colors, and the map as a whole has hundreds of buildings with randomly spawning loot in the form of guns, explosives, and healing items. On the island are several large and totally unique cities, each with their own style of structures - a quaint suburb of houses, a giant office district filled with skyscrapers, or a retail area with an outdoor mall.
