Summary
TheEpic Games Storehas revealed that its user base crossed the 295 million mark in 2024, alongside making certain strides in other areas, such as average monthly active users. Launched in December 2018, theEpic Games Storerecently celebrated its sixth anniversary since emerging on the PC gaming landscape.
After more than half a decade of existence, the Epic Games Store has cultivated a huge audience and has grown in popularity, partially thanks to its weekly giveaways. To boost the digital storefront’s PC market share, Epic Games has previously also signed exclusivity deals for certain major releases, such asAlan Wake 2. While these decisions have likely aided the PC game vendor’s growth, it’s still far from giving Steam a run for its money. At present, the Valve-owned platform sits comfortably at the top of the ladder, havingbroken its concurrent Steam users recordmultiple times over the past year. However, the Epic Games Store looks to be gradually closing the gap, as revealed by the numbers in its latest annual report.
The Epic Games Store recently shared itsYear in Review reportfor 2024, throwing light on reaching more than 295 million PC users by that period, an increase of 25 million users year-over-year. Compared to 2023, the storefront experienced a 6% bump in both average daily active users and average monthly active users, which reached 31.5 million and 67.2 million, respectively. Moreover, player spending grew 15% in 2024, hitting $1.09 billion compared to $950 million from last year. In addition to that, theEpic Games Store also highlighted giving away89 PC games for free during 2024, three more compared to the preceding year. In doing so, it made games worth a total of USD 2,229 available for free for a limited time. The top five biggest games on the store in 2024, in terms of player engagement and spends, wereGenshin Impact,Rocket League,Honkai Star Rail,Grand Theft Auto 5, andFortnite.
Epic Games Store Stats in 2024
Besides stats based on its performance in 2024, the Epic Games Store laid out some targets for the ongoing year. It marked further expansion of theEpic Games Store mobile appas a priority, with a focus on bolstering the app library as it adds more mobile titles to its existing catalog. On the PC version of the store, Epic Games is gearing up to bring a brand-new download manager in Q1 2025, with support for download scheduling and more. Additional features, such as improved search and the option to preload games, are also in the works for PC users. Interestingly, the Epic Games Store has also mentioned making non-gaming apps available across its PC and mobile counterparts this year. Gifting is also expected to make its way into the store by 2025.
With the wide range of new features headed to the Epic Games Store, it will be interesting to track how that helps its popularity among players as 2025 progresses. Concurrently, it may be worth keeping an eye on how theTim Sweeney-led storefrontfares on the new frontier of mobile and what kind of games are given away for free on that platform.
Epic Games Store
A digital video game storefront for Windows PC and macOS created and operated by Epic Games. Originally launched in December 2018, Epic Games Store is both a website as well as a standalone launcher.
