Gaming Archivist Discovers A Canceled Fortnite Spin-Off Mobile Game From 2014

In a recent episode of retrieving hidden industry documents, a gaming archivist has found out a canceled Fortnite spin-off game from 2014. The project was named “Fortnite World Explorers” by developer Epic Games and was soon canned. Epic later integrated it into a now-shut-down 2017 mobile game, Battle Breakers.

In an X (formerly Twitter) post, gaming archivist, MrTalida shared their latest discovery with details and pictures. According to the source, Fortnite World Explorers featured a tile-based combat system, an expensive open-world map, a myriad of different missions, and plentiful heroes and monsters for players to collect. The game also had a home-based mechanism that allowed the player to build a rooster of heroes and slowly expand control over the map.

The game was to feature tile-based combat, an expansive overworld map with many missions, a huge cast of heroes and monsters to collect, and a homebase mechanic. pic.twitter.com/mrIxP09c0x

— MrTalida (@MrTalida) December 22, 2023

Further in the thread, MrTalida expressed their conjecture that Fortnite World Explorers later evolved into a fantasy JRPG called “Endless World.” Subsequently, another X/Twitter account Fortnite STW News joined the conversation, suggesting that Endless Worlds underwent a further transformation and ultimately became the now-shuttered 2017 mobile game, Battle Breakers.

The information was finally confirmed when another X/Twitter user TR_Pox1016 keenly compared the audio libraries of the scrapped 2014 game and now defunct Battle Breakers, revealing a substantial similarity. Summarizing the collected information, MrTalida claimed that Battle Breakers was indeed the canceled Fortnite World Explorers.

The keen-eyed @TR_Pox1016 has discovered audio tracks referencing "World Explorers" in the files of Battle Breakers. Seems like solid confirmation that Battle Breakers was originally Fortnite World Explorers!

Many songs from BB (left) appear in my data from 2014 (right). pic.twitter.com/KztbO6tMCd

— MrTalida (@MrTalida) December 22, 2023

Battle Breakers was a sci-fi adventure role-playing game, launched in 2019 by Epic Games for Android, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. Unfortunately, the game couldn’t open to an ideal reception having earned a Metacritic score of 2.2. Due to a negative reception and a lack of engagement, Epic Games officially ceased the title on December 30, 2022.