Epic Games has been on a mission to make Fortnite the everything game. Bigger than a battle royale, bigger than LEGO Fortnite or Harmonix’s Fortnite Festival. Now it’s Psyonix — the studio behind Rocket League — who’ve dropped Rocket Racing into the Fortnite platform.
Today, the rumor mill thinks Epic’s next trick is bolder: absorbing an existing game, Rocket League, into the fold.
The breadcrumbs fueling the conspiracy
Fortnite leakers swear they’ve spotted clues: an “RL” codename appearing alongside Rocket Racing, datamined strings labeled “Dealership Hats,” and assets pointing to Rocket League-style cosmetics. Add a few insiders insisting Psyonix once had a full Unreal Engine 5 Rocket League sequel in the works — a plan supposedly scrapped when Epic decided all its toys should live in the same sandbox — and suddenly the internet thinks a Rocket League port is inevitable.
Even Rocket Racing’s existence feeds the theory. Psyonix built it, it feels like a cousin to Rocket League, and it launched squarely inside Fortnite’s ecosystem.
If Epic is serious about “Fortnite as a platform,” why would it greenlight any major first-party release outside its own walled garden?
What’s actually confirmed
Epic has admitted to two things:
- Rocket League is being upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 over time. (2021)
- Rocket Racing was designed by Psyonix to live inside Fortnite, complete with cross-game item sharing.
What Epic hasn’t said is that Rocket League 2 exists — or that it will be locked to Fortnite. Psyonix has even told players Rocket Racing does not replace Rocket League, which continues to get updates.
The reality check
There’s no solid proof of a full Rocket League port or sequel baked into Fortnite. That said, there’s hard lines of code that prove they’re planning something Rocket League related (that isn’t Rocket Racing).
Add that to Epic’s recent goal to build the Fortnite platform, and it makes the theory hard to dismiss outright. Either way, some sort of League of Rockets in Fortnite looks inevitable.