21 Games Like Fortnite You Can Try Out In 2026

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Category: Games
Originally Published: 2025-12-03
Curated: 2025-12-03 16:21

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Fortnite began its life as an unremarkable co-op survival game, and then became the hottest battle royale game in the world--and these days, Fortnite is a lot of other things, too. Since the end of 2023, Epic has launched a pile of varied new modes--Blitz Royale, Reload, Lego Fortnite, Fortnite Festival, Ballistic, and Rocket Racing--while Fortnite's ecosystem of user-created experiences in Creative continues to grow at a breakneck pace as that ecosystem found its first blockbuster this year with the Roblox clone Steal the Brainrot. So the concept of "games like Fortnite" includes a lot of different things at this point.

Fortnite is still primarily known as a battle royale, judging by the player-counts--but the rest of Fortnite continues to grow. Some folks, like me, like to sample everything, and some tend to stay in the modes and games they already know they enjoy and don't feel much of an urge to explore. There's nothing at all wrong with either approach--it just means that "games like Fortnite" can mean pretty different things to different people these days.

With that in mind, we're going to make our recommendations based on some of the various niches that can be found within Fortnite, rather than looking for other games that have this same breadth and scope. There just aren't many games that can compare, so it would be silly to go that route. Instead, scroll on for recommendations for other games that hit some of the same niches that Fortnite does. Many of these are free-to-play; for more of those, check out our picks for the best free games.

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