US EditionFortnite Is Back for Everyone on Google Play — and I’m Hoping It’ll Be on the iPhone App Store Soon Too
Fortnite returns to Android's main app store after nearly six years, offering full game access but with higher in-game currency prices, Epic Games confirmed.
- Epic Games announced Fortnite will relaunch on the Google Play Store worldwide on March 19, 2026.
- Following the court ruling, Fortnite returns to the Play Store later this week after its August 2020 removal and near six-year absence, previously distributed via Epic Games Store for mobile and cloud streaming services.
- According to the Play Store listing, the relaunch delivers the full Fortnite experience, including Lego Fortnite, Fortnite OG, Festival, creator-made multiplayer worlds, and Chapter 7 Season 2 Showdown.
- From March 19, 2026, players will be exposed to higher V‑Buck prices, with a standard pack now delivering only 800 V‑Bucks instead of 1,000.
- Despite easier access on the default Android app store, many regions including the UK still rely on cloud streaming, while iPhone users in the EU can access the Epic Games Store marketplace.
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Fortnite will return to Google's Play Store globally on March 19
Now that Epic Games and Google have made up — or at least found a way to resolve their long-running disputes — everyone with a compatible Android device can get back to the business of playing Fortnite. The game will return to the Play Store globally on March 19, the same day that the next Fortnite season goes live. It previously dropped back onto the Play Store in the US in December.Google pulled Fortnite from the Play Store back in 2020 after …
Fortnite returns to Google Play as soon as tomorrow, March 19
Recently, the long-drawn out legal battle between Epic Games and Google came to a close, with a court ruling that Google's Play Store commission would be reduced from 30% to 20%, part of what Epic had spent years campaigning for. As this legal conflict has now been wrapped up and Google has allowed Epic Games to bring Fortnite back to its store, you might be wondering when exactly this debut will be happening. It has been confirmed that Fortnit…
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