Why Fortnite Became the Most Addicting Game In History

An analysis of players’ stats using AI and K-Nearest Neighbor models.

Michel Kana, Ph.D
Towards Data Science
4 min readNov 1, 2021

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Children are becoming so addicted to Fortnite that it’s causing panic in parents. With over 250 million players worldwide, $200 million monthly revenue, it seems everyone is playing Fortnite these days. Fortnite is becoming more addictive than heroin

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