THE FUSE

As we sit in the comfortable denial that lets us believe it’s games like Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 that are the most popular out there, earning the most attention and the most play time from the most players, pesky reality maintains its own truth, in which truly gargantuan numbers of people are playing Roblox and Fortnite fan-games you’ve likely never heard of. Fish It!, a Roblox game, saw nearly 28 million players yesterday, with 1.4 million playing at the same time. At the same time, Fortnite‘s creator-made Steal the Brainrot, itself a version of a wildly popular Roblox game, saw a record 1.09 million concurrent players. And as of last week’s changes to Fortnite which allow creators to implement microtransactions, it also introduced both super-expensive items and gambling!