Epic Games launches Fortnite’s Spy Within social game with Houseparty video chat

Epic Games is launching a new social game called Fortnite’s Spy Within, which is the company’s version of popular social deduction titles like Werewolf and Among Us.

This new Fornite experience is based on and named after the popular Fortnite Creative user-generated map, Spy Within, which gamers/creators KKslider and Dolphin Dom made. A lot of players might view this as predatory, as Epic Games is trying to muscle in on the turf of Among Us, a popular indie title. But it’s a familiar pattern, as Among Us is based on the older Werewolf title and Fortnite’s battle royale mode is based on the design of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Epic’s model is to evolve Fortnite to be whatever it needs to be to hang on to its users as it becomes a sort of proto “metaverse.”