Epic Games has locked in the Fortnitemares 2026 collab lineup with new key art that arrives just before the Halloween event, including Five Nights at Freddy’s and Beetlejuice. The image makes the seasonal roster visible for the first time and shows how those properties will sit inside Fortnite. It also frames the tone players can expect once the event goes live.
Fortnitemares returns this Thursday, October 1. Epic Games revealed the main Fortnitemares 2026 crossovers in the new key art. The image gathers several horror icons in one place and signals that the event will mix licensed characters with original seasonal cosmetics.
Fortnitemares 2026 Collabs Confirmed So Far
The latest promotional piece highlights Freddy Krueger and Beetlejuice as they prepare to enter the battle royale for the first time. A long-awaited Five Nights at Freddy’s crossover is also included, bringing Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and its haunted animatronics onto the map. Those two horror properties sit alongside the rest of the confirmed seasonal partners.
Here is the full list of Fortnitemares 2026 collabs revealed so far:
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Beetlejuice
Slender Man
Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street*
The Purge
Black Clover
The key art places these properties inside this year’s Fortnitemares window, yet Epic Games has not announced exact Item Shop dates for each drop. Most of the outfits and related cosmetics are expected to roll out in stages across October rather than all at once.
Fortnitemares 2026 Skins Revealed
The Five Nights at Freddy’s Fortnite trailer also showcased four new original Fortnitemares 2026 skins that sit outside the licensed animatronic set. Those concept cosmetics lean into a doll theme, and three of them share a similar visual language that suggests they could arrive together as a pack or bundle. The trailer uses the pizzeria setting as a backdrop while these original looks appear alongside the crossover footage.
One of the new Fortnitemares outfits draws from a spooky take on Alice in Wonderland, complete with a white rabbit hanging from the doll’s dress. The remaining doll-themed cosmetics keep a matching Halloween aesthetic that fits the broader event. Fortnitemares 2026 itself begins on Thursday, October 1, 2026, when the first wave of seasonal content is scheduled to go live.
The trailer also places those original skins in the same sequence as the Five Nights at Freddy’s material, which helps separate the licensed animatronics from the event-exclusive doll looks. Epic Games has not listed individual shop prices or exact drop days for the doll set. The Fortnitemares 2026 start date remains Thursday, October 1, 2026, when the first wave of seasonal content is scheduled to go live.
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza is shown as a playable space in that same trailer, with the haunted animatronics presented as threats players will have to survive. The original doll cosmetics appear briefly in the same video rather than in a separate reveal. That overlap means the October 1 update is expected to carry both the crossover location and the first original Fortnitemares outfits at the same time.
