The Fortnite Fortnitemares 2025 event explained

The Fortnite Fortnitemares 2025 event kicked off on October 9 this year, ushering in the now traditional Halloween celebrations across the battle royale and beyond. The main island has received a spooky makeover, meaning you can now visit Creepy Camps, Viney Shafts, Gourdy Gate, Freaky Fields, and Pumpkin Pass, while there's a completely new Reload map named Nitemare Island which is now in the rotation. The horde mode is also back for 2025, renamed as Demon Rush and featuring the KPop Demon Hunters.

As always, there are plenty of Halloween-themed skins being released during this event, from the likes of Scooby Doo and the Gang to Ghost Face from Scream and Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, and some haunting twists on gameplay such as Ghost Face being able to call up other players to reveal them on the map. For the lowdown what's happening, here's what we know about the Fortnite Fortnitemares 2025 event.

What is the Fortnitemares event

The Fortnite Fortnitemares 2025 event is a little over three-week event in Fortnite during which limited-time quests and rewards are added to the game, all Halloween themed, along with certain new weapons, enemies, locations, and NPCs added to the map. Most of these new map and gameplay additions are featured in the quests in some way, so players will need to find all of the new elements to fully complete the Fortnitemares quests.

This time around there's a special guest, with Doja Cat featuring as the Mother of Thorns NPC who must be fought and taken down. Other familiar faces you'll encounter during the event include Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred from Mystery Incorporated, plus The Grabber from Black Phone, Huggy Wuggy from Poppy Playtime, and plenty more.

Fortnitemares quests and rewards

The Fortnitemares quests have returned for this year's event, offering plenty of XP for completing spooky assignments, in addition to a separate set of challenges in the Demon Rush mode. There are also Bonus Goals for earning Account Levels during the event, with cosmetic rewards up for grabs. The full breakdown is as follows:

Bonus Goals

• Earn Account Levels (2) = Butcher's Tools back bling
• Earn Account Levels (4) = Art The Hack spray
• Earn Account Levels (6) = The Grind House loading screen
• Earn Account Levels (8) = Meat Grinder emote
• Earn Account Levels (10) = Wuggy Welcome loading screen
• Earn Account Levels (12) = Butcher's Knife pickaxe
• Earn Account Levels (15) = Pig The Butcher outfit

Help The Gang

• Complete Fred, Velma, Daphne, and Shaggy's Found Quests (4)
• Hire Scooby Doo

Tricks

• Pick up the phone at a Stalkbox (2)
• Hit different players with Last Call (7)
• Defeat the Mother of Thorns (1)
• Call players with Last Call (10)
• Hit an opponent while grinding on vines or rails at Viney Shafts (1)
• Defeat Ultima Carver (1)
• more Tricks added on October 21

Or Treats?

• Restore health or gain shields with Scooby Snacks (450)
• Pull consumables with the Thorn Ripper (5)
• Visit Pumpkin Takeovers with the Mother of Thorns (3)
• Restore health or gain shields by consuming food at night (200)
• Carve pumpkins (5)
• Smash Pumpkin Chests (10)
• more Treats added on October 21

When does the Fortnitemares event end?

The Fortnitemares event is scheduled to run for a little over three weeks in total, with all quests and rewards attached to the event coming to an end on November 1 at 10:30am ET. The event ending at that time will coincide with the conclusion of the current Fortnite Season 4, so all Halloween and Fortnitemares content will be taken down at that point – meaning that anybody who hasn't earned the unique rewards attached to the event will have missed their chance.

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