One of the biggest games in the world, Fortnite is a unique third-person shooter with an emphasis on building, community, and crazy fun. In addition to the incredibly popular battle royale mode, you can fight evil zombies in the cooperative save the world mode or enjoy the building system in creative mode.

Released in 2017, Fortnite combined the building gameplay of popular games like Minecraft and Terraria with a third-person shooter, resulting in an extraordinary experience that's taken the world by storm. Fortnite is split off into three separate games: Fortnite: Battle Royale, where you battle to be the last person (or team) standing, Fortnite: Save the World, where you build towers to fight off hordes of zombies, and Fortnite: Creative, which gives you free access to the building options in the other two game modes, allowing you to create custom maps for your friends, incredible structures to show off, or just relax and chat.

Fortnite's building options are key, important features in all three game modes. After the battle royale genre exploded, Fortnite has remained very unique because of its building options. Need a barrier between you and a foe who's shooting from afar? The building system lets you do that with ease, as long as you have resources. In high-level games of Fortnite, the best players can erect walls, ramps, and platforms in an instant, allowing them to gain big advantages by bending the map to their will.

While the building system in Fortnite is easy to use, it's hard to use quickly. Part of what differentiates good Fortnite players is their ability to quickly build the things they want in high-pressure situations. It's a long-term skill that you'll develop over time as you gain familiarity with the game's menus and mechanics. Not only does the building system add depth and strategy to the game as it plays out, but it also adds a new skill that you can master alongside first-person shooter classics like aim, map knowledge, and awareness. The plethora of skills helps make Fortnite an especially good game to play with friends, as one of you can leverage your building skills to protect your team while another one utilizes expert aim to take out enemy players.

Fortnite wasn't the first free-to-play game supported with skins and a battle pass, but it helped spearhead the modern monetization model. This means that you get access to a colossal amount of content for free. If you play the game a lot, you'll have plenty of opportunities to spend money to get incredible skins, cosmetics, and more. As you play, you'll unlock rewards on the current Battle Pass, which you can purchase any time during the season to gain access to all unlocked rewards. It's a monetization scheme that makes the game incredibly cheap to pick up while allowing you to support the developer and flex on your friends by picking up a cool skin or two.

More than any other game on the market, Fortnite has a massive player base. Short-term, it's not the biggest game in the world, and it might even be surpassed by the flavor-of-the-month battle royale on a weekly or monthly basis. Long-term, however, it's clear that Fortnite is here to stay. This means you'll get super-fast queues, populated games, and a huge community of friends that you can enjoy Fortnite with.