How many people play Fortnite? After bursting onto the scene in 2017, Fortnite has since become a worldwide phenomenon, amassing 650 million players across the globe as of November 2023, up from 400 million in May 2021. Why is Fortnite so popular? The reasons Fortnite has become such a global hit are clear. Not only is the game free to play, but it is also available on most gaming platforms. On top of this, Fortnite's most popular gameplay mode is the battle royale mode, in which up to 100 players fight it at once. This means that the re-playability of the game is infinite – each game is unique. Keeping players engaged with live services Fortnite Battle Royale is also a live service game, meaning that the game receives regular content updates to keep players engaged. Each season of the game roughly lasts 10 weeks and features events such as online concerts, and cosmetic changes. The game’s current iteration is called "鬼HUNTERS (Demon HUNTERS)" with a theme around yōkai, hunters and Japanese culture. Live service games are here to stay By offering cross-platform, multiplayer gaming with a live service schedule, Fortnite covers two of the biggest gaming industry trends, which the majority of the industry intend to follow. A 2023 of global gaming studios found that more than nine in ten studios were either working on or intending to release a live services title. With regular, cadenced, and themed updates to free-to-play games, studios motivate players to keep returning and, eventually, spend not only time but also money on the game. This seems to work for the parent company Epic Games – Fortnite was one of the most downloaded PlayStation F2P game in the EU and North America in 2024.

Having burst onto the scene in 2017, Fortnite has since become a worldwide phenomenon, amassing almost 250 million players across the globe as of March 2019. Having first been released in July 2017, the battle royale game took just two weeks to reach 10 million players, a figure which doubled to 20 million players after only six weeks. In less than a year, the game had acquired a staggering 125 million players.

Fortnite Player Performance

Understanding Player Performance with Granular Data

By Kristian Reynolds [source]

About this dataset

This dataset contains 88 end-game Fortnite statistics, giving a comprehensive look at player performance over the course of 80 games. Discover the time of day, date, mental state and more that contribute to winning strategies! Measure success across eliminations, assists, revives, accuracy percentage, hits scored and head shots landed. Explore distance traveled and materials gathered or used to gauge efficiency while playing. Examine damage taken versus damage dealt to other players and structures alike. Use this data to reveal peak performance trends in Fortnite gameplay

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How to use the dataset

This dataset is a great resource for analyzing and tracking the performance of Fortnite players. It contains 88 end game stats that provide insights into player performance, such as eliminations, assists and revives. This dataset can help you gain a better understanding of your own performance or another player’s overall effectiveness in the game.

• Analyzing Performance: This dataset can be used to analyze your own or other players’ overall performance in Fortnite across multiple games by looking at statistics like eliminations, assists, revives and head shots (by looking at comparisons between different games).
• Tracking Performance: The dataset also has valuable data that enables you to track any changes in performance over time since it includes data on when the games were played (Date) as well as when they ended (Time of Day). This can be used to measure progress or stagnation in your play over time by comparing different stats like accuracy and distance traveled per game.
• Improving Performance: By combining this data with other information about gear and character builds, one can use this information to look for patterns between successful playstyles across multiple matches or build an optimal loadout for their particular playstyle preferences or intentions see what works best their intended approach

Research Ideas

• Using this dataset to develop player performance indicators that can be used to compare players across games. The indicators can measure each player's ability in terms of eliminations, assists, headshots accuracy and other data points.
• Establishing correlations between the mental state and performance level of a player by analyzing how their stats vary before and after playing under different mental states.
• Analyzing the relationship between overall game performance (such as placement) and specific statistics (such as materials gathered or damage taken). This could provide useful insights into what aspects of gameplay are more important for high-level play in Fortnite

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

License: Dataset copyright by authors - You are free to: - Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. - Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - You must: - Give appropriate credit - Provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. - ShareAlike - You must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. - Keep intact - all notices that refer to this license, including copyright notices.

Columns

File: Fortnite Statistics.csv | Column name | Description | |:-------------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------| | Date | Date of the game. (Date) | | Time of Day | Time of day the game was played. (Time) | | Placed | Player's placement in the game. (Integer) | | Mental State | Player's mental state during the game. (String) | | Eliminations | Number of eliminations the player achieved. (Integer) | | Assists | Number of assists the player achieved. (Integer) | | Revives | Number of revives the player achieved. (Integer) | | Accuracy | Player's accuracy in the game. (Float) | | Hits ...

A collection of 88 end game Fortnite statistics including rank placed, eliminations, assists, revives, accuracy, hits, head shots, distance traveled, materials gathered, materials used, damage taken, damage to players, damage to structures, time of day, date, and mental state.

Action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong topped the 2024 list for peak number of concurrent players on the online gaming platform Steam, with 2.4 million peak concurrent players. The action-adventure game Palworld, which was released in January 2024, was ranked second. Is Steam keeping pace with the console giants? The fight for supremacy between PC and console gamers is an eternal one. However, it seems that Steam, the main online PC gaming platform, can still keep up with the console giants. In January 2023, Steam registered a record 33 million simultaneous users at peak time, impressive considering the figure stood at 27.4 million just two years before. One of the main advantages of Steam is the staggering library of games available to users, and it appears that players are not afraid of splashing the cash to play their favorite games.   Battle of the Battle Royale games While PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds reigns supreme in the Steam universe, it has stiff competition in the form of its battle royale brother, Fortnite. First released in July 2017, and not available on Steam, free-to-play Fortnite very quickly amassed millions of players and soon became a worldwide hit. Having scooped the award for Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2018, Epic Games’ smash hit shows no signs of slowing down. But with new players, such as Apex Legends, constantly entering the game, will Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds be able to hold on to their loyal fan bases?

Since its release in 2017, Fortnite has become one of the most popular games in the world. The Battle Royale game pits up to 100 players against each other at one time until only one player emerges victorious. Given the nature of the gaming world and of shooter games in particular, it comes as no surprise that the majority of Fortnite players are male – **** percent of the game’s players in the United States are male, in comparison to **** percent who are female.

The rise of Fortnite The meteoric rise of Fortnite can be seen no more clearly than in its registered user number. It recorded just one million users in its humble beginnings in August 2017, but this had soared to 250 million players by March 2019. The battle royale game is particularly loved by the younger generations – **** percent of users in the U.S. were aged between 18 and 24, and a further **** percent fell into the ** to ** age range. While the gameplay makes it easy to play just one game in a sitting, it seems that players are putting far more hours into their favorite game. Over ** percent of Fortnite players admitted to spending over ** hours a week playing the game and **** percent stated that they played between ** and ** hours weekly.

Fortnite raking in the revenue One of the biggest selling points of Fortnite is that it is free to play. This does not mean, however, that the developer, Epic Games, is not reaping the rewards for its hit game. Gamers can spend money on upgrades within the game for everything ranging from how their character looks to how they celebrate their victory. These in-game purchases were carried out by **** percent of Fortnite gamers in the United States, with modifications to outfits or characters being the most popular choice. As a result of these purchases, Fortnite generated revenue of *** million U.S. dollars in May 2018 alone, more than doubling the figure from February 2018.

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Context

This Dataset contains the data of 80 endgame fortnite statistics corresponding to the mental state of the player. The data helps in providing possible conclusions when it comes to sobriety and specific statistics in the game.

Content

The Dataset contains various fortnite statistics such as position of the player after the battle is over, number of eliminations, number of assists, number of revives, accuracy percentage, number of hits and number of headshots. All these stats are calculated keeping in mind the mental state of the player at a particular time and date.

Acknowledgements

The data was obtained from the data world website. The precise data was collected by Kristian Reynolds who was the player. This data can be found from the following link https://data.world/kreynol3/fortnite-statistics80-games with detailed analysis.

Inspiration

Fortnite has been one of the most successful video games in the history of the gaming industry and still continues to be one. The early seasons of fortnite are generally considered its peak. According to PlayerCounter, Fortnite brings in three to eight million concurrent players. Being a huge gaming fanatic inspired me to share this interesting dataset which can be used to study the relation between the accuracy and performance of the player with respect to their mental state.

Since its release in 2017, Fortnite has become one of the most popular games in the world. The Battle Royale game, in which up to 100 players fight it out at one time, is especially loved amongst the younger generations as **** percent of Fortnite players are aged between 18 and 24, and a further **** percent are between ** and 34.

The rise of Fortnite Having amassed over *** million registered users in just two years, it is safe to say that Fortnite is nothing short of a gaming phenomenon. The developers of the hit, Epic Games, certainly picked the right time to enter the market as revenue in the Battle Royale premium console segment amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars in 2018 and was estimated to more than double to *** billion U.S. dollars in 2019. Fortnite undoubtedly contributed to this estimated jump in revenue as the game generated *** million U.S. dollars in May 2018 alone and it also raked in considerable revenue through its mobile game. If Fortnite itself is free to play, how is it generating so much money?

In-game purchases key to success The answer is in-game purchases. Regular currency will not get you very far in the Fortnite universe, but it will give you access to V-Bucks, which will unlock everything from Fortnite outfits to celebrations (emotes) and gliders. It seems that players are spending their hard-earned money on making their Fortnite characters stand out from the crowd, with over two-thirds of Fortnite fans confessing to spending money on in-game purchases. The most popular upgrades were to the characters themselves and their outfits, whilst almost ** percent of in-game spending was on emotes, so that the victorious players could celebrate their victories in style.

During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in April 2020 when many people were stuck at home, gamers turned to their favorite pastime to help them through lockdown. To capitalize on this captive audience, the popular battle royale game Fortnite collaborated with U.S. rapper Travis Scott to put on a live event within the game. This series of five events, named Fortnite: Astronomical, featured various songs from the artist, as well as a world preview song. During the first live show, a peak of 12.3 million players participated in the event, marking an all-time record for the game.

Apex Legends became an instant hit on its release in February 2019. Despite the growth in players slowing down in the months after the game's initial release, Apex Legends crossed 170 million players life-to-date as of October 2024. Apex Legends popular among eSports fans Apex Legends is a battle royale game which pits up to 20 three-person squads against each other in a fight to the death an island. While the game evidently has millions of devoted players, many more experience the game through some of their favorite eSports players. The Respawn Entertainment game is consistently one of the top games streamed on Twitch, with Apex Legends viewers watching in their thousands to see teams battle it out. In June 2024, approximately 7 million hours of Apex Legends were watched on major livestreaming platorms worldwide, making it one of the most popular games on Twitch and illustrating its appeal to both players and viewers alike. The rise of battle royale Battle royale games often include hundreds of players competing against each other at one time and this large-scale game mode has become increasingly popular in recent years thanks to the success of games such as Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG). While many of the games are free to play, players can invest money on in-game purchases, which include upgrades to characters and players. Indeed, player spending in battle royale games often runs into the thousands and spending on PUBG Mobile even surpassed the 1.6 billion U.S. dollar mark in September 2020.

Battle royale game Fortnite has hosted several high-profile in-game events which have drawn millions of players worldwide. The Galactus event, which concluded Fortnite's Marvel-themed season 4 of chapter 2 in November 2020, drew 15.3 million concurrent players and still holds the record to date. In November 2024, Remix: The Finale event set the record for a Fortnite in-game concert, attracting 14.3 million players. Additionally, while not a concert or a special event, the launch of Fortnite OG, featuring the game's original map, in November 2023, was the most successful day for the battle royale title, drawing over 44 million players in a day.

First released at the start of 2017, PUBG: Battlegrounds (previously known as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) is one of the most popular games on Steam and had 944,484 peak concurrent players in the last recorded month, July 2025. The highest number of concurrent players was recorded in January 2018 at 3.24 million. One of the biggest games on Steam PUBG gained a devoted legion of fans in a short space of time after its release, and cumulative unit sales of the game hit 75 million in December 2021. The game has also been critically acclaimed — it won the Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards in 2017 and its free-to-play mobile version for Android and iOS, released in 2018, was nominated for Best Mobile Game at The 2018 Game Awards. This critical success has also translated into commercial success, as the game generated millions of U.S. dollars of revenue, most successfully in the United States. On January 12, 2022, the game has become free to play. Battle of the Battle Royale games PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an online battle royale game in which up to 100 hundred players battle it out until there is only one player or one team left standing. This format of game has become very popular in recent years. While PUBG has a strong following, especially on Steam, it has come under pressure from rival battle royale game Fortnite. First released just several months after PUBG, Fortnite has since become a cultural phenomenon, amassing 500 million registered users in just six years. As of 2025, both PUB and Fortnite are still going strong with their loyal audiences.

According to a February 2020 survey of Fortnite gamers in the United States, ** percent of respondents played Fortnite roughly *** to *** hours per week, while **** percent admitted to playing for ** weekly hours or more.

Content The dataset contains the Grand Finals statistics for the NA Central region. Day1 consists of the first 6 games, and Day2 contains the last 6.

Date: Day 1. Each Grand Finals is a two day event. The Date column lists the first day of competition. The second day of competition is just one day later.

Season: The Chapter and Season of the Grand Finals. CH - Chapter; S - Season

Place: Final Placement at the end of the two day Grand Finals

Player1, Player2: The names of the two players in each duo competing together.

Points: Total number of points at the end of the two day Grand Finals.

Wins: Total number of wins at the end of the two day Grand Finals.

Avg. Points: Average number of points scored per duo over the 12 games.

Avg. Place: Average placement by the duo over the 12 games.

Total Eliminations: Total number of eliminations at the end of the two day Grand Finals.

Avg. Elims: Average eliminations by the duo over the 12 games.

K/D: Eliminations (Kills) / Death Rate

Game1-12 Place: Placement by the duo for each of the 12 games.

Game1-12 Elims: Eliminations by the duo for each of the 12 games.

Missing Data Missing data in the csv is handled through "-1" in the Game Place/Elim columns. These can occur if a duo doesn't load into the match, or a game crash prior to the match.

Acknowledgements I collected the data by hand from Fortnite Tracker website (https://fortnitetracker.com/). The public Fortnite Tracker API was disabled.

In November 2023, battle royale title Fortnite launched the OG season, taking players back to the original Chapter 1 map and re-introducing various in-game items from the earliest seasons of the game. The nostalgia was strong in this one, and Fortnite players on Xbox and PlayStation consoles spent nearly 1.48 billion hours on the online title in November 2023, up by 146 percent from the hours spent on Fortnite in the preceding month.

The top earner in the battle royale video game Fortnite from Denmark was the gamer tag Anas. He earned over *** million U.S. dollars in professional Fortnite tournaments in the period from February 2018 to January 2025. In second place came Th0masHD, Thomas Høxbro Davidsen, who earned roughly *** million U.S. dollars' worth of prize money. Epic Games developed the survival and royale battle video game Fortnite in 2017. The different game mode versions are available not only for computers and consoles, but also for handheld and mobile devices.

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According to a February 2020 survey of Fortnite gamers in the United States, respondents had spent an average of ****** U.S. dollars on in-game purchases. Overall, about ** percent of responding Fortnite audiences had spent money on the free-to-play title.

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In March 2025, Fortnite was the top battle royale title across Twitch with more than 12 million weekly viewer hours. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare, which was published by Activision Blizzard, was ranked third with 4.7 million viewership hours during the measured period.