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PayPalEpic Games have release their 2025 Year in Review for the Epic Games Store, and they appear to be doing doing quite well compared to previous years. Be sure to check out our guide to play titles from Epic Games Store on SteamOS / Linux.
For 2025 they're reporting 317 million total PC users, with a 67 million average for monthly active users (-1%) and 31 million average daily active users (-2%).
Epic has a lot of cash thanks to the success of Fortnite, and they've been burning through it to get people into using their store along with giving out all those free games (100 given away free in 2025). So third-party PC game revenue is essential if they want the store to actually succeed and it appears they are starting to turn things around.
Epic reported $1.16 billion spent by PC players (+6%), with $400 million (+57%) spent on third-party PC games in the store. If we go back and compare to previous years for third-party game spending:
- 2025: $400 million
- 2024: $255 million
- 2023: $310 million
- 2022: $355 million
- 2021: $300 million
- 2020: $265 million
- 2019: $251 million
So not only have they turned that number around but it was clearly their best year yet for it.
An interesting point mentioned by Epic is how their free game giveaways can actually help Steam releases too.
The Free Games Program also continued to drive discovery and engagement. In 2025, players claimed 662 million titles through the program. Over 77% of games set an all-time peak CCU record on the Store during the week of their free offer. This delivered a measurable halo effect across the broader PC ecosystem, including a 40% lift in Steam CCU while the title was free on the Epic Games Store.
This halo effect they mentioned was backed up by New Blood Interactive CEO Dave Oshry, who mentioned on X/Twitter back in January how "Blood West was free on EGS over the holidays and sold like 200% more on Steam that day".
Epic Game Store actually saw a decrease in hours spent gaming at 6.65 billion (-14%), with time spent in third-party games at 2.78 billion (+4) so players are spending more but overall gaming on it less.
The Epic Games Store itself is also set to expand with new social experiences and community spaces, along with enhancements planned to their cross-platform text chat with features like avatars, player profiles, and private messaging. They're also planning to add a "cross-platform library for players across PC and mobile, and we’re introducing regional storefronts with localized discovery" along with improvements on mobile too.
On top of that they're going to launch a new "official program to help developers sell more games on the Epic Games Store by leveraging the marketing power of Fortnite". They said players who buy specific games will "get a Fortnite cosmetic along with a matching character avatar for their Epic account profile".
See more in the Epic Games blog post.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: SzkodnixSo far the only good thing in Epic is that they got regional pricing right for me (or at least in Poland).maybe i will play devil's advocate here, but when epic games shut down their Paragon MOBA game, they refunded all donations made by players. Killing games sucks, but at least epic games did a really honourable gesture with these refunds.
I still don't trust that clown Sweeney.
1) I think Alan Wake 2 being exclusive to EGS played a strong part of this increase. Especially since they funded the game to begin with.
2) Tim Sweeney whines about competition and fairness yet, he keeps stealing games from steam and making exclusive to EGS. (Rocket league, fall guys, Alan Wake 2). Man, I HATE exclusives. It's not competition, it's desperation. The guy is a hypocrite. Competition, for the consumer, is having those games on BOTH stores and having a price war.
Now despite me having over 4000 games on steam, I've always said, of anyone can make a game store as good or as useful as steam out better, I'd be happy to purchase my games there. The biggest trouble with EGS is the fact it is just a store. There's no community, workshop, competent voice chat, game recording, etc.
As long as EGS remains the petulant Little featureless game store, why is it worth my time?
I read in an interview with the store boss, they have great plans to take on steam. They plan to optimise the software so it is faster and lighter on resources. They still don't get it. It can be as fast as you like but still, why would I switch to buying games there?
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