FortniteLauncher
FortniteLauncher.exe is the small bootstrapper that starts when you launch Fortnite. Its job is to bring up the anti-cheat environment and then start the actual game client (FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping.exe, also curated). It is not the game itself, and it is not the Epic Games Launcher (EpicGamesLauncher.exe, curated separately) that manages your library and store.
Because FortniteGameFortniteOpen plate → ships separate anti-cheat builds of its client, part of the launcher's role is to pick the right one and complete the handshake before gameplay starts. Fortnite uses both Easy Anti-Cheat (the Epic Online Services variant) and BattlEye.
If you have Fortnite installed, this process appears briefly around game launch. The deeper anti-cheat detail lives on the Fortnite game-executable plate and the Easy Anti-Cheat plate.
This process belongs to Fortnite, curated in the Field Guide's Games section.
Catalogued from Vera's own observations across real sessions, surfaced only after the process has been seen on multiple independent machines. The reported publisher and category come from the process itself and Vera's curated app catalog. File paths are never published.
Vera Project. “FortniteLauncher.” Vera Field Guide (Process). The Vera Project. https://www.veraproject.xyz/field-guide/processes/fortnitelauncher