Fortnite: Save The World Is Finally Free-To-Play, Offers A Free Skin For Good Measure

The version of Fortnite that started it all is in the spotlight for the first time in many years, as Epic Games has made the original Save the World mode free for all Fortnite players for the first time. For those who aren't familiar with it, Save the World is a co-op survival game in which players must complete objectives on various open-world maps while using builds and traps to defend from a variety of monsters. Now that Save the World is free, it will appear as one of Fortnite's main modes in the Discovery section of the lobby for all players.

Epic is celebrating making Save the World free by offering crossover quests with Battle Royale that will award XP and cosmetics, including a free skin based that is usable in all of Fortnite. Completing three quests for the Jess NPC on the Battle Royale island will unlock the ability to buy the Super Shredder weapon from her once per match, completing 12 quests unlocks the Super Shredder schematic for Save the World, and earning 350,000 XP in Save the World will award the Jess skin.

Before the removal of the price tag, Fortnite: Save the World was a mode largely forgotten by most players, though it's had a consistent set of players who have used it to level through each battle pass. Back in the day, though, Save the World was Fortnite, because it was the game's only mode when it originally launched with a $40 price tag. Ironically, though, Fortnite only became a juggernaut because Save the World was a huge bomb. After Fortnite launched to disappointing sales numbers in July 2017, Epic quickly whipped up a building-based battle royale mode in Fortnite as a quick pivot, and that in turn blew up quickly and spawned the aspiring metaverse that we know so well today.