LEGO Fortnite’s post-launch numbers are pretty staggering

LEGO Fortnite arrived to massive success last week – and its post-launch numbers are staggering, as the brand new experience is leagues ahead of every other Fortnite game mode.

Within only a couple of days of going live, LEGO Fortnite had already reached 2,432,569 concurrent players, sweeping past almost every other game mode – and coming within 700,000 players of Battle Royale, Fortnite’s main lobby. Its all-time peak as of December 11 is now 2,447,763 (according to third-party tracker Fortnite.gg). But the really impressive stats are those showing how many people are playing LEGO Fortnite right now.

At the time of writing, 478,953 players are gathering resources, building towns and recreating Pixar movie magic in LEGO Fortnite. By comparison, ‘just’ 263,394 players are hanging out in Battle Royale, with a further 163,412 playing Ranked Battle Royale. The new LEGO mode is therefore winning out over both of those lobbies combined – and its 24-hour peak of 2,197,071 players is ahead of both Battle Royale maps’ combined 24-hour peak of 1,793,722 players.

LEGO Fortnite is also wiping the floor with the other two new game modes that have joined Fortnite in the past couple of days. Rocket Racing is sitting in fifth place in the list of active lobbies at 93,442 players, with an additional 87,544 players taking part in Ranked Racing, while Festival Main Stage and Festival Jam Stage together are hosting 93,665 budding musicians.

To say that LEGO Fortnite is proving a winner might be underselling it a bit. But the Minecraft competitor still has some way to go to reach the heights of its rival survival crafting game: according to ActivePlayer.io, a total of 972,082 people are playing Minecraft right now, while its peak player count in the past 30 days has reached a stunning 25,221,353.

Whether LEGO Fortnite can help propel Epic Games’ free-to-play title to the heights of Minecraft remains to be seen, but Mojang Studios’ 2009 title – which is the best-selling video game of all time – has had a little bit of a head-start. Epic apparently has more LEGO game modes up its sleeve, though…

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