How to get free Fortnite skins in 2025

Fortnite has been making new skins since its release back in 2017. However, a very large majority of these skins tend to cost money, meaning only those who choose to open their wallets will be able to acquire these skins. Here is how to get free Fortnite skins in 2025.

Obtaining Fortnite skins for free is not as hard as it may sound. Fortnite has offered players many different ways to get free skins in the past, making the game still accessible to anyone who wants to style their character.

However, there are some non-ethical ways of obtaining free Fortnite skins, which are against Fortnite's TOS. We will not be including those in this article.

Below are some of the free ways people can get skins in Fortnite:

The game is constantly giving players a chance to get free skins. Let's break down each way players can grab themselves a free Outfit in Fortnite.

Sometimes, Fortnite will include random challenges that grant players a free skin in the game. Sure, a lot of these times the challenges are Battle Pass specific, meaning you have to purchase the Battle Pass to even start the challenges, but every once in a while the game will release a challenge or two that does not require any money.

Want to make sure you know when these challenges drop? Easy, just stay updated with Fortnite. The game is constantly including new updates, meaning one of these free skin-type challenges could drop at any moment, any week.

Luckily, when a challenge as such does drop in the game, it will stay there for at least a week, meaning players will have quite a few opportunities to complete the challenge and get their free skin.

Every year in December, Fortnite features a 12 Days of Christmas event. The event is free to partake in and gives players various rewards, including skins, emotes and other cosmetics.

The event takes place in the Main Menu, where players can head to a small cabin and open a new present each day. There are always 12 gifts players can obtain, one of these being a new Holiday-themed skin.

In the past, the game has also given out collaboration cosmetics, like a Star Wars Glider and more. 12 Days of Christmas is a great way to get a free skin and other free cosmetics in Fortnite.

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Twitch Drops have always been a great way to get free Fortnite skins and cosmetics. Twitch has consistently partnered with the Battle Royale in the past, giving out a bunch of free different in-game items to Fortnite fans.

So, what are Twitch Drops and how do they work? Well, the popular items are given to those who watch a specific streamer during Drop events. In the case of Fortnite, whenever the game holds a Twitch Drops event, featured streamers will have Drops enabled, and any person who watches them for a specific amount of time will acquire that Drop.

However, Fortnite Twitch Drops are not always skins. They can be anything from Weapon Wraps to Emotes in the game, but there are certainly chances Fortnite will include Outfits in Twitch Drops. These usually happen during big tournament events such as FNCS.

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Fortnite is notorious for hosting different tournaments that grant the top players free skins. This requires quite a bit of effort, as you have to finish in a top small percentage to be granted the skin.

However, the game constantly hosts these skins for big collaborations, such as Icon Skins, Anime skins and more. It is a great way to get a free skin while also working heavily on your Fortnite skills.

A lot of these tournaments are usually in both Battle Royale and Zero Build mode, too, so every type of Fortnite player has a chance at winning them.

Fortnite is also notorious for hosting random events, too, that will grant players a free skin. Remember when the Apple lawsuit came out, and you had to collect a bunch of apples in a random tournament to get a free skin? The game loves to reward players, meaning there will always be random events dropping that grant players free Outfits.

Make sure to keep your eye out in Fortnite for any of these random events to drop and more if you are hoping to get a free skin in the game.

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