In 2022, the multi-platform free-to-play (F2P) gaming title Fortnite generated an estimated 4.4 billion U.S. dollars in annual revenues. This figure decreased from the previous year when the battle royale title made about 4.8 billion U.S. dollars in revenues.

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 until one player is left standing, generated revenue of 3.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2019, down from 5.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2018.

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 until one player is left standing, generated revenue of *** U.S. dollars in December 2019, more an increase of *** million U.S. dollars compared to the precious month.

Fortnite – the money maker With *** million users registered worldwide in early 2020, it is no wonder that Fortnite is making its developers, Epic Games, a lot of money. The game has found the most success in the United States, where it generated a staggering ** million U.S. dollars in its first year after release. Given the nature of the game and the trend in gaming as a whole, it will come as no shock that the vast majority of Fortnite players in the United States were male, with over ** percent falling into the 18-34 age category.

In-game purchases key to success Given that Fortnite is a free-to-play game, how does it generate such a vast amount of revenue? The answer lies, as with many other commercially successful free-to-play games, in in-game purchases. According to a survey carried out in the United States in February 2020, about 77 percent of Fortnite players admitted to making in-game purchases. Using their hard-earned cash to purchase V-Bucks, gamers then use the game’s currency to buy upgrades ranging from outfits and characters to gliders. What’s more, almost ** percent of U.S. Fortnite players confessed to spending money on emotes, which allow their character to celebrate their kills and victories with elaborate dance moves.

In 2024, video game publisher and software developer Epic Games is projected to generate approximately 5.8 billion U.S. dollars in gross revenues, up from 5.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2020.

How does Epic Games make money? Epic Games' gross does not only include game revenue from the company battle royale hit Fortnite, but also engine revenue derived from game licenses and royalties, as well as Unreal Engine assets. Epic is the developer of the gaming engine Unreal Engine, which is currently monetized under a royalty model, meaning that is can be downloaded for free and Epic claims a percentage of sales revenue. Currently, Epic is not claiming a fee for developers that publish their games on the Epic Games Store. The Epic Games Store (EGS) was launched in December 2018. In May 2020, Epic announced that their share of royalties for games developed in Unreal Engine are waived until developers have earned their first 1 million U.S. dollars in revenue. Other income streams of the company include Epic Games Store revenue, and Merchandise and other revenue. Epic Games Store upsetting the industry standard One of the biggest headlines regarding the launch of Epic’s own digital storefront was the company’s attitude to developer / store revenue split. Gaming stores and app platforms including Valve’s Steam, the Apple App Store, or Google Play, usually take a 30 percent commission cut from game sales and in-game revenues. The Epic Games Store was released with the announcement that the EGS would only claim 12 percent of revenue, leaving 88 percent to the developers. This approach, as well as Epic’s attempt to circumvent Apple’s monetization strategies in the iOS app of Fortnite, has made many headlines, led to Apple removing the app from its App Store, and resulted in the still ongoing lawsuit Epic vs. Apple.

After a nearly five-year ban from the Apple App Store and Google Play, the battle royale hit made its return to mobile devices — at least on iOS. After a protracted legal battle between Epic Games and Apple regarding third-party payments, Fortnite returned to the iOS ecosystem in the United States. In May 2025, Fortnite's mobile app revenue amounted to 1.15 million U.S. dollars.

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.

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Kyle Giersdorf, more commonly known by his gamertag Bugha, was the most successful Fortnite player in the United States based on prize money earnings as of January 2025. Giersdorf's total career earnings through Fortnite, as of that month, exceeded 3.7 million U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, Harrison Chang aka psalm came in second place with total career earnings amounting to around 1.87 million U.S. dollars. eSports tournament prize pools Professional eSports players can earn up to millions of dollars in prize money at international competitions. As of the year-end 2024, the Dota 2 championships had amassed the highest cumulative prize pool from eSports games worldwide. The International, which is a Dota 2 tournament, was the most lucrative eSports tournament worldwide, with the winners of the 2021 iteration of The International walking away with approximately 40 million U.S. dollars. Popular battle royale games Battle royale games are multiplayer games which combine aspects of free-for-all or team-based shooters with components from survival games, such as having to scavenge for equipment within a hostile open-world environment. As of January 2025, Fortnite was the most popular PlayStation 5 game based on monthly active users worldwide, ranking above entries such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto V. When it came to the most streamed battle royale games worldwide Fortnite also took the top spot, surpassing Apex Legends and Call of Duty: Warzone, which racked up 4.7 million weekly viewer hours in March 2025.

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In 2019, video game publisher and software developer Epic Games generated approximately 4.2 billion U.S. dollars in gross revenues, the majority of which was generated through its game revenue segment. Almost all of the segment's revenue was generated via Fortnite, with smaller titles Rocket League and Battle Breakers only netting a fraction of the total. Epic Games also publishes the Unreal Engine, a tool for developing games, as well as the Epic Games Store.

Context

This is scraped data from eSportsEarning.com that provides information on earnings 💰 of eSports players and teams.

Content

Three CSV files:

1. highest_earning_players.csv
2. highest_earning_teams.csv
3. country-and-continent-codes-list.csv

The data from CSV files (1) & (2) includes these games:

1. Dota 2
2. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
3. Fortnite
4. League of Legends
5. Starcraft II
6. Overwatch
7. PUBG
8. Hearthstone
9. Heroes of the Storm
10. Arena of Valor

Acknowledgements

This dataset was inspired from Ran Kirshenboim's original data set - Esports Earnings 1998 - 2020. Thank you Ran, I used your data set (along with other data) to produce this Tableau story on eSports.

Inspiration

Please see the Exploratory Data Analysis task for inspiration on how to use this data set.