Epic’s Tim Sweeney Says Fortnite Won’t Be Updated To Run On Steam Deck

When another user accused of Sweeney of “not trust his own product,” he pointed to Fortnite’s sheer size as the issue.

“With regard to anti-cheat on the Linux platform supporting custom kernels and the threat model to a game of Fortnite’s size, YES THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT!” Sweeney replied.

Sweeney’s comments are somewhat at odds with his previous statements, in which he said that Epic was looking to better support Wine — of which Proton is a version — as “a solution for running Epic Games store window titles.” He also previously called Steam Deck an “amazing move by Valve.”

None of this necessarily precludes Fortnite fans from running it on Steam Deck. It just means that they will have to install Windows on the device rather than make use of the available default options. Either way, Fortnite fans wanting to play on handheld are probably better off just downloading it on Nintendo Switch.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN

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