What's in Fortnite Besides Battle Royale?

18 August 2026 · 7 min read

GameMapa editorial · how we check facts
Checked: Claude (AI) — fact-checked against the Ukrainian original; not proofread by a native speaker

Besides Battle Royale, the official Fortnite page on the Xbox Store also lists Fortnite OG, Reload, Fortnite Festival, LEGO Fortnite and Creative. In other words, you didn’t download one game — you downloaded a shell containing several different games, and the mode-select menu is exactly that.

Below is what the store page actually lists, why individual modes carry their own ESRB age ratings, and what does not follow from any of this.

The mode list from the store page

Here are the names as they appear on the official Fortnite page on the Xbox Store:

This matters precisely because it’s a primary source. There are plenty of Fortnite mode lists floating around online, they don’t agree with each other, and they go stale fast. The store page is what the publisher itself put on its own product listing.

What a newcomer should take from this list: the names in the menu aren’t “maps” or “playlists” inside one game. They’re different things by genre. One name points to a music mode, another to a LEGO building set, a third to tools for building your own content. The only thing they share is that they all launch from the same app.

Player counts: 2–100 and 2–4

The same page states two different online formats:

• online multiplayer for 2–100 players;
• online co-op for 2–4 players.

That explains why the experience varies so much between menu entries. One mode can fill a full lobby with dozens of people, another is built for a small group of friends. The store page doesn’t spell out which mode belongs to which number, so neither do we. We’re only recording that the app officially states both formats.

Why one game has several age ratings

The most unexpected thing for parents and newcomers alike: “the Fortnite rating” isn’t a single number.

ESRB explicitly describes Fortnite as a multi-game ecosystem from Epic Games, in which individual modes have received their own ratings. Two documented examples:

Two modes that launch from the same desktop icon are rated differently. If you’re going by age rating, you need to check the rating of the specific mode — not “the Fortnite rating” in general.

What the E rating on Rocket Racing actually means

It’s worth breaking down one rating card in detail, because it shows how to read these correctly.

Rocket Racing carries an E for Everyone rating with no content descriptors at all. Descriptors are the short tags — mentions of violence or language, for example — that ESRB adds beneath the rating letter. Rocket Racing has none.

But the card does carry two other notices — Users Interact and In-Game Purchases. These aren’t content descriptors; they’re notices about the nature of the service itself:

• Users Interact — the player is in contact with other people, and what those people say or do isn’t controlled by the rating;
• In-Game Purchases — there’s something inside to buy with real money.

The practical takeaway is simple: “E with no descriptors” describes the content the studio built, and promises nothing about other players’ behaviour or about spending. That’s the most common mistake in reading ratings.

How to check a mode’s rating yourself

Steps to follow if you want the primary source rather than a summary:

1. Open the ESRB website and find the card for the specific mode, not a general “Fortnite” card.
2. Check the rating letter — that’s the age the rating is aimed at.
3. Read the content descriptors under the letter. If it’s blank, ESRB hasn’t added any.
4. Separately check for service notices like Users Interact and In-Game Purchases. They sit next to the rating but mean something quite different.
5. Compare against the mode list on the store page — and be prepared for the two lists not to match completely.

That last point isn’t theoretical. Rocket Racing has its own ESRB rating card, but it isn’t named among the modes on the Fortnite page on the Xbox Store. We’re recording that mismatch as a fact, not inventing an explanation for it.

What we do not claim

This section matters more to us than the ones above.

• We do not claim the store list is exhaustive. It’s a list of names on one official page, not a register of everything that exists inside the app.
• We do not claim every other mode carries a T or E rating. Only two are documented in our sources: Rocket Racing and Fortnite Festival. We say nothing about any other ESRB cards.
• We do not make any claims about pricing, subscriptions or access terms for individual modes. Our sources don’t cover that.
• We do not claim that 2–100 applies to Battle Royale and 2–4 to co-op modes specifically. The store page states both ranges for the app, without tying them to specific mode names.
• We do not claim to know why Rocket Racing is missing from the store’s list. There could be many reasons — from how the product listing is structured to how the publisher groups modes. We haven’t verified any of them.

If you come across a text that states any of these points with confidence, ask it for a source. Ours are listed at the end.

Why Fortnite gets described as several games in one shell

Let’s put the pieces together.

The store page lists names spanning different genres under one product. The ratings body issues separate scores to separate modes, and those scores aren’t the same. The online formats are also stated separately — from a large lobby session down to a small group of friends.

That’s the definition of a “shell”: one shared app, one shared login, one shared account — but different content, different audiences and different rules inside. That’s why “what genre is Fortnite” doesn’t have a single answer, and why the mode-select menu on launch looks overloaded. It is, in fact, a fork in the road between different games.

The practical takeaway for a newcomer: before drawing conclusions about “the game”, check which specific mode you’ve actually landed in. The experience in the next menu slot over may have almost nothing in common with it.

Where to go next

We cover individual modes and tools in separate guides:

• Ballistic mode basics
• [Save the World: what it is__STRIP__
• [LEGO Odyssey: playing together__STRIP__
• how Discover works

Short version

The official Fortnite page on the Xbox Store lists Battle Royale, Fortnite OG, Reload, Fortnite Festival, LEGO Fortnite and Creative, and ESRB rates individual modes separately — Rocket Racing carries an E, Fortnite Festival carries a T. So check the rating and content of the specific mode you’re in, not “Fortnite” as a single game.