The game finances itself through cosmetic microtransactions, which enable players to purchase character and weapon skins with both real money and in-game currencies as well as through the purchasing of a Battle Pass model which rewards the player with exclusive goodies by accomplishing certain milestones.
It was released in February 2017 on almost all platforms and has become a veritable cultural phenomenon. Epic Games really pushed for the battle royal genre to become mainstream and kept on innovating with a co-operative PvE mode (Save the World) and a sandbox mode (Fortnite Creative).
Fortnite is perhaps one of the most well known free-to-play cross-platform games ever developed.
