Monopoly: Fortnite Edition, commonly called Fortnite Monopoly, is a version of the board game Monopoly, themed on Fortnite Battle Royale, a multiplayer online battle royale game.[1][2][3] It was released on October 1, 2018, following Fortnite's highly successful release the previous year.[1]

The gameplay incorporates aspects from Fortnite, with properties named after the its locations, such as the Tilted Towers.[4] Other thematic adjustments include the use of health points in lieu of money, which players gradually lose when stepping on spaces affected by the "Storm". The number of such spaces increases during a game, analogous to how the playable area gradually shrinks in a video game's match.[5] Further, players are allowed to immediately claim an initially visited, unclaimed property without buying or auctioning it off, which represents how the video game's players begin by landing at a chosen area and then loot it for materials and weapons. A special "action" die is used, allowing players to build defensive walls, attack opponents or heal.[6][7]

The NPD Group declared that Monopoly Fortnite was the top selling new games super-category item in the United States for the week ending October 6, 2018.[8] The Washington Post described it as "a classic board game mixed with one of the year's most popular video games".[9] According to a Dicebreaker review, the game "takes big swings, changes up Monopoly’s core rules and, remarkably, feels like an entirely new game", but remains strategically shallow and predominantly a game of chance rather than skill, as it mostly lacks meaningful player choices (while players can, for example, attack other players, whether they will attack or peform some other action actually depends on the action dice throw)—keeping in the spirit of the base version.[2]

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  1. ^ a b Meitzler, Ryan (September 7, 2018). "Fortnite is Getting a Monopoly Board Game and Nerf Blasters from Hasbro". DualShockers. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Hannan, Marley (December 8, 2022). "Fortnite Monopoly is a much better board game than anyone expected". Dicebreaker. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  3. ^ Abbott, Benjamin (November 4, 2022). "Must-have board games for kids: Fun at home for everyone". GamesRadar+. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  4. ^ Goslin, Austen (September 7, 2018). "Fortnite Monopoly is coming this October". Polygon. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  5. ^ Kleinman, Jake (October 4, 2018). "Fortnite Monopoly Review: Nothing Like Either Game, but Still a Lot of Fun". Inverse. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  6. ^ Jackson, Gita (September 6, 2018). "Fortnite Monopoly Replaces Boardwalk With Tilted Towers". Kotaku. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  7. ^ Jones, Ali (September 6, 2018). "Just roll, lol – Fortnite Monopoly will be here by Christmas". PCGamesN. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
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  9. ^ Siegel, Rachel (November 21, 2018). "The 2018 toys that parents are buying over and over again". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 23, 2024 – via Gale OneFile.