Fortnite Festival mode: The Weeknd event, release date & more

Fortnite‘s Festival is the newest musically-inspired mode coming to Epic Games’ title. Here’s everything you need to know, including Release date, launch setlist, The Weeknd and more.

Fortnite’s Big Bang live event threw its player base into a wild sequence of events, showing glimpses of the title’s exciting future. Snippets of the event included an exciting LEGO crossover, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival.

For all the musical fans and enjoyers of the legendary Guitar Hero titles —this one’s for you. 

Here’s what you need to know about Fortnite Festival.

Contents

• Fortnite Festival release date
• What is Fortnite Festival
• Fortnite Festival songs setlist
• The Weeknd event in Festival
• Will Festival include mature content

When does Fortnite’s Festival release?

Fortnite Festival mode releases on December 9, 2023 across all regions Fortnite is available.

The game mode will be the first dedicated music title where an entirely crafted mode by Epic Games will be implemented in Fortnite.

What is Fortnite’s Festival mode?

The new Festival mode appears to be an ode to the previously mentioned hit musical titles like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Renowned developer Harmonix, of the former title, lend their hand to create this new experience.

Epic Games describes this experience as:

“Fortnite Festival is a new music game where players can play in a band with friends or perform solo on stage with hit music by their favorite artists.”

Fortnite’s been known for its exploration into music with in-game concerts from big name artists like Travis Scott and Eminem, with the latter headlining the Big Bang event. However, this is Fortnite’s first big dive into the genre, with more artists set to participate in the future.

Fortnite Festival songs setlist

Epic Games has confirmed all the acts and songs that will be played during Fortnite Festival as part of their launch line-up. These include some of the biggest music stars and tracks in the world, such as Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Fall Out Boy, Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo , PSY, headliner The Weeknd and many more.

Here is the full setlist of Fortnite Festival songs and music artists confirmed to be playing:

• Dirty Little Secret by The All-American Rejects
• Bell Biv Devoe by Poison
• Bad Guy by Billie Eilish
• Zombie by The Cranberries
• Cake by the Ocean by DNCE
• My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark(Light Em Up) by Fall Out Boy
• Highway Tune by Greta Van Fleet
• Thunder by Imagine Dragons
• I by Kendrick Lamar
• Mr. Brightside by The Killers
• Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall
• Bad Romance by Lady gaga
• Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock
• Emo Girl by Machine Gun Kelly ft. Willow
• The Search by NF
• Nine Inch Nails by The Hand That Feeds
• Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo
• Counting Stars by One Republic
• Gangnam Style by PSY
• Go with the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age
• Cradles by Sub Urban
• Blinding Lights by The Weeknd
• The Hills by The Weeknd
• Save Your Tears by The Weeknd
• Take My Breath by The Weeknd
• Buddy Holly by Weezer
• THe White Stripes by Seven Nation Army
• Nothing’s Alright by Witch Gang
• Brace for Chaos by Epic Games
• Butter Barn Moedown by Epic Games
• Run It by Epic Games
• Switch Up by Epic Games
• Take Me Higher by Epic Games

The Weeknd headline event in Fortnite Festival

The first major artist to headline Fortnite Festival is The Weeknd. Much like the above footage, The Weeknd will perform a selection of songs and players can play along to the beat.

It has confirmed that he will perform four songs as outlined in the setlist above, where he is to close out the live music show.

As with any in-game crossover event, you can expect plenty of new cosmetics to get your hands on.

The Weeknd’s arrival will be no different, as it’ll bring a new “Festival Pass” aka a new system similar to the Fortnite Crew.

With it, players will be able to purchase cosmetics for use in the Festival mode, such as new looks for instruments and more.

Will Festival include mature content?

After Festival was announced, fans were quick to notice looks at the PEGI rating for the mode which included “sexual references” in the description. Of course, it led to many fans asking how mature this mode would get.

The official Festival page shut down all the questions immediately, with this official tweet.

That’s everything you need to know about the all-new Fortnite Festival. Be sure to stick with Dexerto for more Fortnite coverage.

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