Sora is bringing company, and a soundtrack.
Epic Games, Disney and Square Enix will launch their long-teased Kingdom Hearts crossover in Fortnite on Thursday, September 17, bringing four characters, a Mythic weapon, a pickaxe and two Fortnite Festival Jam Tracks into the game. The drop arrives with the v42.20 update as part of Chapter 7 Season 4.
It’s officially happening 🗝️ Sora is coming to Fortnite this week!
— Fortnite (@Fortnite) September 13, 2026
Everything In The Drop
Outfits: Sora, Riku, Kairi and Roxas. The first three wear their Kingdom Hearts II designs, while Roxas arrives in his Organization XIII coat.
Weapon and pickaxe: the Kingdom Key, arriving both as a pickaxe cosmetic and as a Mythic weapon players can find and use in matches. The trailer shows Sora casting Thundaga with it, indicating the Keyblade might use magic rather than functioning as a melee item alone.
Jam Tracks: “Dearly Beloved” and “The Other Promise,” both confirmed by the official Fortnite Festival account. Both are Yoko Shimomura compositions. “Dearly Beloved” is the series’ main theme, present in some form in every entry since 2002, and “The Other Promise” is Roxas’s theme, which makes its inclusion a deliberate pairing with his outfit.
Epic has not disclosed pricing, and bundles will rotate through the Item Shop rather than landing at once.
The Trailer Is A Shot-For-Shot Tribute
The trailer was scored with Utada Hikaru’s “Sanctuary,” the opening theme of Kingdom Hearts II, and recreates the opening moments of that game’s title sequence nearly shot for shot, down to Sora hitting the ground on the musical sting. Utada wrote the opening themes for the entire series.
Epic revealed the lineup across four posts in the space of an hour, each one a line of dialogue signed with a single initial and no character name attached. Sora’s read “A scattered dream that’s like a far-off memory”, then repeating in reverse, signed “-S”. Riku’s was “If the world is made of light and darkness… We’ll be the darkness,” signed “-R”. Kairi’s was “And who knows, starting a new journey might not be so hard…” signed “-K”. Roxas got “Looks like my summer vacation is… over,” also signed “-R”.
Two posts signed “R” sent the fandom to work, which was the point.
The Business
The crossover is the latest product of a partnership Disney paid handsomely to enter. The company took a $1.5 billion equity stake in Epic in February 2024, with plans for a persistent Disney universe built alongside Fortnite.
Kingdom Hearts is a more complicated asset than most of it. Disney co-owns the franchise with Square Enix, which developed the series under director Tetsuya Nomura beginning in 2002, making this a three-way arrangement rather than a straight license. The franchise has passed 39 million units worldwide.
Chapter 7 Season 4 has already delivered Sonic, Crash Bandicoot and Mega Man. Kingdom Hearts appeared on the season’s key art from the outset and was the last remaining reveal, after a February leak set off seven months of speculation.
What’s Next
The Kingdom Hearts Collection, covering the first three games, lands October 8 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, preceded by a September 30 livestream featuring Riku voice actor David Gallagher. Kingdom Hearts IV follows in late 2027, and Disney and Square Enix have set Kingdom Hearts: The Series, an animated show for Disney+ and Disney Channel with an original story from Nomura.
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