![]() ![]() Thank you for being a part of our expanding community of developers, publishers, players & creators.Ĭheck out our 2022 Year in Review: /Mj83oUCSqr - Epic Games Store March 9, 2023įinally, Allison pointed out that some publishers don't need to take a deal from Epic to convince them to release their games on the Epic Games Store. ![]() Other games headed to the Epic Games Store as exclusives in the time ahead include PC Building Simulator 2, new titles from Fall Guys studio Mediatonic (which Epic owns), as well as a title from a "small studio" that will be revealed at GDC this month.Ģ022 was another great year of growth for the Epic Games Store, and we're excited for what's coming next here in 2023! Looking ahead, titles that Epic funded-including Alan Wake 2 and new games from Limbo developer Playdead and The Last Guardian studio genDesign-will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for "a long time," Allison said. "A handful of major exclusives really moved the needle … and the smaller games, especially games that had a smaller audience that was typically on Steam, we found that a lot of those players weren't willing to move over."Įpic Games Store GM Steve Allison said the launch of Borderlands 3 on the Epic Games Store as a limited-time exclusive "crushed" expectations, though specific numbers were not shared. "We're really honing our strategy based on what we observed worked really well in previous launches, and what didn't work really well," Sweeney told PC Gamer. Looking ahead, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said the company will continue this strategy, but he observed that this effort worked best for bigger titles. Titles like The Division 2, Metro Exodus, and Borderlands 3 launched as timed-exclusives for the Epic Games Store. After releasing several quality-of-life Epic Games Store updates in 2022 such as cross-play tools for PC, player ratings, and improved search functions, Epic will focus on launcher performance improvements, third-party subscription support, and content hubs to allow publishers to share more details on their titles with their communities.Epic Games is attempting to take marketshare from Steam in part by signing games to be exclusive, at least for a period of time, to the company's Epic Games Store. The company has officially rolled out self-publishing tools, which were previously being tested in beta, and it expects to see "exponential" growth in its games catalog. Looking ahead, Epic has some big plans for its storefront throughout 2023. A little further down, the list diversified with games such as Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, Red Dead Redemption 2, Sifu, Dying Light 2, and Cyberpunk 2077. ![]() ![]() On the business side of EGS, players spent $355 million on third-party applications-up 18% year-over-year- and on Epic's own games players spent $820 million, which was down 2% from 2021.Īs for games, the top titles on the store included mostly free-to-play games such as Genshin Impact, Rocket League, and Fortnite, with Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and Grand Theft Auto V being the sole paid-for game on the top-tier list. To see what else Epic has to offer with this promotion, you can check out GameSpot's regularly updated feature on the free games available through Epic every week. Epic has also confirmed that the weekly Free Games Program will continue in 2023, and currently, you can claim Call of the Sea as this week's freebie. In total, over 700 million free games were claimed by players. Throughout 2022, 99 free games worth $2,240 USD were offered through EGS, and 70 of those games broke their peak concurrent user records on PC. While last year saw over 230 million Epic Games Store PC users-an increase of 36 million compared to 2021-a monthly active users peak of 68 million, and 626 new PC titles added to the store in 2022, what's really impressive are the number of free games that were claimed, which Epic offers on a weekly basis. The Epic Games Store is looking back at 2022, a year that saw the platform post some big numbers. ![]()
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