Fortnite cost to play

Fortnite Battle Royale is free to play and sells cosmetics and a seasonal Battle Pass for V-Bucks. You see what you are buying in the Item Shop before you pay, so this page covers cost only.

How it plays

Fortnite is a free-to-play online game made up of several modes. In Battle Royale you drop onto the Island and fight to be the last player standing, building cover and structures as you go; Zero Build is the same fight without building, where a recharging Overshield, sliding and mantling take its place. You can play solo or in duos, trios and squads.

Alongside it, Epic lists Fortnite OG, which brings back the Chapter 1 map and items; Reload, where the game is over once you run out of reboots; Fortnite Festival, where you play music in a band on stage; and the LEGO Fortnite worlds, including survival-and-building in Odyssey and the social city of Brick Life. Save the World is a co-op campaign in which you build traps and forts to hold off waves of monsters.

There are also thousands of player-made games, and you can build your own with Fortnite Creative or Unreal Editor for Fortnite.

What it costs

Epic's help page prices the Battle Pass at 800 V-Bucks, or includes it with a Fortnite Crew subscription. The OG Pass is also 800 V-Bucks, and the LEGO Pass and Music Pass are 1,200 V-Bucks each. On the PlayStation Store UK, 800 V-Bucks costs £6.99, so the Battle Pass costs £6.99 if you buy exactly that pack.

V-Bucks get cheaper in bigger packs: 800 for £6.99 works out at about 0.87p each, 2,400 for £17.49 at about 0.73p, 4,500 for £27.99 at about 0.62p and 12,500 for £69.99 at about 0.56p.

Players

Fortnite runs on Epic's own launcher on PC rather than Steam, so we don't show a player count.

How we checked

The pass prices come from Epic's help page and the V-Bucks prices from the PlayStation Store UK listings, both read on 4 October 2026. The age rating is from pegi.info, read on 3 October 2026. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's PlayStation Store and Epic Games Store pages.

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