India, June 3 -- Fortnite by Epic Games was reportedly down for thousands of users on Tuesday. At the time of writing, Downdetector logged over 1800 complaints.

On the site that tracks outages, users said they were facing issues with matchmaking and loading. "No games loading. Creative or BR," one wrote. Another added "Matchmaking not working at all. Can barely even load up Save The World, let alone try to play a match there, or in BR."

On X too a person noted they could not queue anything, which is usually what happens when servers are overwhelmed. "Is Fortnite down rn? Why can't I que anything," they wrote.

Fortnite issued a statement, acknowledging the situation and wrote "We're investigating matchmaking errors requiring you to queu...