Fortnite
Scored 8.7/10. The game that ate the culture, still eating. Battle Royale, Zero Build, LEGO Fortnite, Festival, OG: it is five games wearing one crown.
Reviewing Fortnite is reviewing the weather. It is not a game so much as the place games happen now, and as of this writing it is running Chapter 7 Season 4: Override, with Sonic's Power Sneakers and a Tetris Rift in the loot pool. Of course it is.
THE CASE FOR 8.7
Battle Royale and Zero Build for the sweats and the sane. LEGO Fortnite for the builders. Fortnite Festival for the music heads. OG and Reload for the nostalgia run. Epic updates this thing like it owes the world rent, and the world keeps showing up: over a million creator made games sit inside it. No other title on this list is also a platform, a concert hall, and a hangout spot at the same time.
WHY NOT HIGHER
The shop never sleeps and neither does the grind pressure, and a game that is everything to everyone is sometimes nothing in particular for an hour at a time. 8.7 is the honest number for a phenomenon: not the best game here, and somehow still the one everybody ends up back inside.
THE INDUSTRY NUMBER
Two scoreboards live on this page and they never mix. The score at the top is Moe's, argued above and signed. The industry's number, the collective critic aggregate, sits here for reference: Metacritic 78. Same game, two verdicts. Read both, then play it yourself.
