Epic Games Servers Down? Rocket League, Fall Guys And Full List Of Apps And Games Affected Today

Epic Games faced a major outage on Wednesday when Fortnite stopped working for thousands of players worldwide. Login failures, matchmaking errors and constant connection breakdowns pushed “Fortnite down”

into global trends. The company confirmed that engineers started an investigation, but no restoration timeline is available.

Players on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch reported that t=the game refused to load. Error messages blocked access to Epic’s servers. Many players never reached the lobby screen.

What Were The Main Problems?

Players faced two major problems when Fortnite went down. The first issue came from the login system. Sign-in attempts failed instantly, and accounts couldn’t connect to Epic’s authentication servers. The errors looked the same on every device, which showed that the problem came from a central system failure rather than individual platforms.

The second issue appeared in matchmaking. A few players who managed to log in still couldn’t start games. Some waited in matchmaking queues that never moved, while others received messages saying the game couldn’t connect to servers. According to Epic’s technical notes, these kinds of issues usually happen when high traffic, unstable servers or backend configuration errors interrupt normal operations.The official Fortnite status page confirmed problems with login and matchmaking. The team posted, “We’re aware of issues preventing people from playing Fortnite at the moment. We’re looking into the issue and we’ll let you know when we’ve fixed things up.”

Epic did not call this scheduled maintenance, which supports the conclusion that this was an unexpected technical failure.

How Long Do Fortnite Outages Usually Last?

Major Fortnite outages usually take one to three hours to resolve, depending on the root cause. Repairs often happen in phases, login services come back first, then matchmaking and other game features.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Epic Games has not given any estimate for restoration. Engineers continue to work on identifying the failure and stabilizing the system.