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Essays 24 November 2021, 17:43

author: Adrian Werner

15 Best Free Online Shooters to Play in 2023

There are plenty of free-to-play shooters out there, but there's also plenty of garbage. We come to the rescue and give you 15 best free online shooters that are honest, fun, and – most importantly – constantly updated.

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Fortnite

FORTNITE: BATTLE ROYALE IN A NUTSHELL

  1. Developer: Epic Games
  2. Publisher: Epic Games
  3. Platforms: PC, XOne, PS4, iOS, AND, Switch, XSX, PS5
  4. PC release date: September 2017

Not many games are total hits. Games that are so popular they influence global pop culture, and their titles are known even to people who ignore gaming. Fortnite: Battle Royale turned out a sensation. When the world first heard about this game, many people did not give it much chance against Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. In fact, however, this genre leader was completely overshadowed by the work of Epic Games.

Fortnite: Battle Royale was greatly aided by the free-to-play model with micropayments. However, this alone would not be enough to make it the phenomenon it is. The authors also focused on a cartoonish style full of memorable vistas and funny animations. The devs topped it off with mechanics of constructing objects on the map (and then removed it). Most of all, however, they won by the sheer pace of development. This production is constantly getting new patches that introduce improvements, initiate events, and remove bugs. The game is changing and getting better in a way that's evident, which keeps the genuine enthusiasm of the community burning.

In addition, a big advantage of Fortnite is the fact that it is a truly universal shooter. It's available on PC, consoles and mobile devices, and almost all of these versions are compatible with each other. In practice, basically all players, regardless of the platform, can play together. This makes Fortnite a unique game that may still change the entire industry.

Epic maintains a very steady pace of development of its flagship product. In 2020, it seemed that the craze began to slowly fade out, but the authors successfully rekindled the popularity with a surprising event in which the map was devoured by a black hole and the servers were shut down. Ultimately, it turned out to be an introduction to the heavily modified version of this game, which debuted as Fortnite Chapter 2. Shortly thereafter, the game hosted a virtual Travis Scott concert, which was attended by 12.3 million people, and in 2021, a similar success was repeated by Ariana Grande's performance. In August 2021, the Impostors mode was introduced, jumping on the Among Us hype train. Last year was also full of novelties. Among the most important ones was the migration of the game into the new Unreal Engine 5.1 graphics engine.

These are just a handful of the most famous examples, because Fortnite receives new content all the time. There are additional challenges, events and crossovers with the biggest pop-culture names. Probably no other free-to-play game is developed with that much intensity.

  1. Learn more about Fortnite: Battle Royale

Fortnite: Battle Royale is for you if:

  1. you are looking for a good, free-to-play battle royale;
  2. you fancy a more upbeat atmosphere than in PUBG;
  3. you want cross-platform capabilities.

Adrian Werner

Adrian Werner

A true veteran of the Gamepressure newsroom, writing continuously since 2009 and still not having enough. He caught the gaming bug thanks to playing on his friend's ZX Spectrum. Then he switched to his own Commodore 64, and after a short adventure with 16-bit consoles, he forever entrusted his heart to PC games. A fan of niche productions, especially adventure games, RPGs and games of the immersive sim genre, as well as a mod enthusiast. Apart from games, he devourers stories in every form - books, series, movies, and comics.

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