A Fortnite Creative map caused a stir over the weekend by being Fortnite‘s most popular individual mode for a short period of time. Steal the Brainrot, a user-made competitive tycoon map that was ripped off from a massively popular Roblox game, managed to pull in just over 183,000 concurrent players on Sunday, making it the top mode in Epic’s metaverse for a couple hours, and sparking a conversation among players about what’s going on.
Those are impressive numbers for a Creative island, though it’s not truly accurate that it ever was the top Fortnite mode–the reality is that it peaked at number 3. At the time that Steal the Brainrot hit its top mark of 183k concurrent players, Fortnite’s main Battle Royale mode had more than 300,000 people playing, split between build, Zero Build, and ranked. Likewise, Reload had about 200k players at the time spread across its variants. On Sunday, Epic even promoted the game on its social channels.
In terms of how it stacks up against other Creative maps, Steal the Brainrot is only the third Creative island to pull at least 183k concurrent players. The top mark ever comes courtesy of the deathmatch map Super Red vs Blue, which had 235k players at once in May.
It’s hard to say exactly why Steal the Brainrot blew up like it did on Sunday, but the mode has been steadily popular since it launched in early July. The Roblox version, called Steal a Brainrot, is currently Roblox’s third most-popular game, as it regularly averages more than a million players at a time. Considering the massive amount of legal heat Roblox is facing at the moment, it could be that Fortnite is catching some players who are leaving that much more popular metaverse experience.
