With that said, just like in regular Monopoly, this version may benefit from a few additional house rules. Instead, Fortnite Monopoly moves forward as quickly as the in-game storm, distributing damage to everyone until the game comes to an (abrupt) end. There’s no agonizing over whether you should buy a property or how many houses to build (though trading is still on the table). That may all sound like a confused jumble, but the overall experience is actually pretty smooth. There’s also a Boogie Bomb, which defies the item’s actual in-game purpose - making your opponents dance uncontrollably - by dealing one damage to all other players. That can include bandages (gain to health), bricks (build a wall to block other players or protect yourself from bullets), and crosshair (shoot another player for damage or destroy a nearby wall). The board game’s biggest innovation may be the action die which replaces one of the regular six-sided Monopoly dice to activate different Fortnite-style actions on each player’s turn.

With all these variables, you’re bound to run through that 15 allotted health pretty quick - even with a few different ways to heal yourself. So basically, the small amount of strategy in Monopoly (should you buy that property or not) is gone.įortnite Monopoly also replaces Community Chest with loot (overpowered power-ups you can use to attack your opponents or protect yourself), and the Storm (which, like in actual Fortnite, turns once-habitable areas into damage-dealing spots). After that, it becomes a safe space for you (or a health boost if you get the monopoly) and deals damage to anyone else who lands there. There are still properties (named after Fortnite locations like Tilted Towers and Tomato Town), but instead of buying them you simply acquire them by landing on that spot first. Instead, you start with 15 health and simply try to survive longer than your opponents. To understand Fortnite Monopoly, first forget everything you’ve ever learned about Monopoly (and most of what you know about Fortnite). it certainly doesn’t hurt that this game is blissfully short (much closer to Fortnite’s 20-minute matches than Monopoly’s weekend-long slogs), but beyond that, there’s something interesting about this buzzy mashup that makes me think it might actually stand on its own as a decent board game. Maybe it was the homemade alcoholic Slurp Juice, but playing Fortnite Monopoly with three of my coworkers was one of the best Monopoly experiences I’ve ever had.

But by smashing the two games together, Hasbro has somehow created something new that’s actually pretty great. Fortnite Monopoly doesn’t play at all like the traditional board game you know and love hate, and, to be honest, it doesn’t have much of anything to do with Fortnite either.

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