LEGO Fortnite Adds GTA Online-Like ‘Social Roleplay Experience’ with Brick Life

Epic Games is splitting LEGO Fortnite into two parts, with one of them, LEGO Fortnite Brick Life, inspired by GTA Online. The new mode will launch inside Fortnite on December 12, 2024.

LEGO Fortnite Brick Life is described as a “social roleplay experience” where players can live out their dream life in the digital city of Brick Bay. The online game will have 32-player lobbies, free for everyone to interact with in the evolving city with many minigames that promote social interaction.

Like GTA Online, players will be able to buy and decorate their homes, and also start a job. Each job ensures that players are interacting with others. For example, you can be a courier to deliver parcels to citizens, or a Bobom Milk Tea Bobarista to serve delicious refreshments to tourists.

The jobs are not passive activities, as an in-game phone will notify you of new opportunities. If you want to change your job, you can do that too with no penalty. Players can redecorate their homes with a build mode not too dissimilar from that in Fortnite Battle Royale.

As LEGO Fortnite Brick Life is a social simulation game, you can chat with other players directly while exploring the city. Epic is overhauling how chat works in Fortnite, so you’ll be able to send DMs and chat with everyone in a public channel directly.

Some items you’ve unlocked from other modes will be compatible with Brick Life. This means that the Jam Tracks sitting in your locker can be used to interact with other citizens of Brick Bay.

You can also get some free LEGO Fortnite outfits to jumpstart your Brick Bay adventure. If you play Fortnite Mobile and earn enough XP, you’ll unlock the Chord Kahele Outfit in Brick Life. Alternatively, you can unlock the Mr. Dappermint Outfit and the Explorer Emilie Outfit by linking your Epic Games and LEGO accounts. Both of these outfits should help you make a dramatic entry at the Rooftop Club opening party on December 18.

There’s a lot happening with Fortnite this month. Following the launch of Chapter 6 Season 1, Epic is adding a first-person competitive mode in Fortnite Ballistic. All these updates should be enough to compete with Marvel Rivals, another popular multiplayer game that just crossed ten million players in its launch week. However, if neither of these games interest you, we recommend checking out these other multiplayer games.

LEGO Fortnite Brick Life launches on December 12, 2024, inside Fortnite.