Havoc Hotel 2: how Fortnite UGC's being disrupted by a roguelike

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[The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expert & company founder Simon Carless, and is a regular look at how people discover and buy video games in the 2020s.]

We’re back in your inbox, featuring the Steam analysis you need in terms of the week’s big debuts & trending games. But we lead by analyzing a Fortnite UGC island made by pro game devs, currently winning without a PvP approach…

Before we get started, shout-out to VGC for doing a sweet ‘making of’ mini-doc - inc. dev interviews - re: PS5 platformer exclusive Astro Bot, which has the affection of big chunks of the Net with its clever, in-joke-y tributes to PlayStation heritage. (Watch it.)

Havoc Hotel 2: disrupting Fortnite with roguelikes!

The evolution of third-party Fortnite levels via UEFN is still… nascent? What we’ve seen? With the exception of occasional phenoms like masocore climbing micro-genre Only Up!, there’s still lots of old PvP shooter variants topping Fortnite Creative CCUs.

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