Uncle Pete’s Pizza Pit is in for some lethal competitors this week, as Fortnitemares 2026 prepares to host a Fortnite x Five Nights at Freddy’s collaboration at the opening of the battle royale’s yearly horror-themed replace.
Fortnite’s annual terror present is gearing up for its tenth iteration, with the Fortnitemares launch date set for Thursday, October 1. It appears Freddy Fazbear might be main the cost to terrify the poor inhabitants of the battle royale island. Given the sheer quantity of collabs Fortnite has hosted at this level, that places just about each recognized character below the solar on his potential sufferer checklist.
“It is nearly showtime!” Reads the YouTube description to the collaboration reveal video. “The Fazbear Band has taken over Battle Royale. Face the animatronic animal bosses and survive the night time… in case you can.”
Freddy Fazbear is not the one pores and skin we have been proven up to now. The reveal trailer for Fortnite’s Five Nights at Freddy’s collab additionally options the uncomfortably creepy faces of Chica the Hen and Bonnie the Bunny, each stalwart scarers for the reason that very first Five Nights at Freddy’s recreation launched method again in 2014.
From the appears of issues, it seems a brand new Five Nights at Freddy’s-themed mode or location might be included, with gamers who’re capable of survive Fazbear and his cohort’s harrowing antics then capable of take management of the deadly animatronics earlier than searching down different gamers. As a result of scaring is sharing, proper?
Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon beforehand talked about in a YouTube interview that he was very cautious with collaborations to “guarantee that Five Nights at Freddy’s stays as Five Nights at Freddy’s,” which had led many to suspect {that a} Fortnite crossover was off the playing cards. How the characters and world might be applied in Fortnitemares has but to be revealed, but it surely appears there’s each chance that Epic Video games’ behemoth battle royale shooter will quickly have Freddy and co. sprinting round and hitting the griddy alongside Ghost Face and Doja Cat quickly.
Fortnitemares is usually a month-long affair, with new modes and skins arriving alongside a spooky revamp of well-liked areas on the island. Five Nights at Freddy’s will be a part of a protracted checklist of horror icons together with Poppy’s Playtime’s Huggy Wuggy, the Scooby-Doo gang, Artwork the Clown, and Jason Voorhees, who’ve discovered their method onto the battle bus. The larger query is which ones can be more than likely to thank the motive force as an alternative of killing them.
Fortnitemares launches October 1, so count on extra particulars on the tenth version of Fortnite’s annual horror present and how Five Nights at Freddy’s matches into it. Spare a second to think about poor Sora, who solely not too long ago arrived in a Fortnite x Kingdom Hearts collab and now has to face every thing Fortnitemares entails.