9 Greatest Comebacks In Video Game History
3. Fortnite
The middling launch and then explosive success of Fortnite is a story everybody knows by this point but if you missed the battle bus, a cash cow that has even outmatched the next game on this list, let me give you the rundown.
The $26 billion revenue generating battle royale game with the llama began life as a humble mission-based tower defence game where you would build up your defences in the hopes of holding out against those who would see your destruction.
This was all totally fine albeit fairly mediocre, but upon seeing the success of PUBG and its battle royale format, Epic said “We could do that”, and do that they did, amassing an unfathomable number of players and lead the pack in pressuring the video game big dogs to enable cross-play between platforms.
Between its emotes, esports competitions, constantly updated content, and undeniably enjoyable gameplay loop, Fortnite has done a stunning job of capturing a market that was clearly hungry for just this experience.
Whether it’s your thing or not, Fortnite is an epidemic. Or an icon. Or both. Either way, it’s not a moment in video game history we’ll be forgetting any time soon making it a pretty enormous comeback.