The Epic Games Store is a video game distribution service.
Launched in December 2018, the platform already has over 180 million PC users. The monthly active user base is 56 million.
The storefront includes over 470 games. Players spent $700 million in 2020 alone.
Here’s an overview of what’s included on this page:
- Key Epic Games Store Stats
- How much do PC users spend in the Epic Games Store?
- Spending on third-party games in the Epic Games Store
- Epic Games Store PC users
- Epic Games Store monthly active users
- Epic Games Store daily active users
- Epic Games Store peak concurrent players
- Epic Games Store hours of playtime
- How many games are available in the Epic Games Store?
- Free games on the Epic Games Store
- How many free games have been claimed in the Epic Games Store?
- What are the most popular games in the Epic Games Store?
- How many people play Fortnite?
Key Epic Games Store Stats
- The Epic Games Store has more than 180 million users.
- Gamers spent a total of $700 million in the Epic Games Store in 2020. Two-year spending totals $1.38 billion.
- The Epic Games Store has 471 titles.
- 31.3 million users access the Epic Games Store on a daily basis.
How much do PC users spend in the Epic Games Store?
PC players spent a total of $700 million in the Epic Games Store in 2020. That’s an increase of $20 million over the previous year.
The growth equates to a modest 2.94% rise in spending compared to 2019. By contrast, the monthly active user base grew by 75% in the same period.
62.14% of spending ($435 million) went towards titles developed in-house by Epic Games.
Here’s a table showing spend in the Epic Games Store since 2019:
| Year | Spend |
|---|---|
| 2019 | $680 million |
| 2020 | $700 million |
Source: Epic Games.
Spending on third-party games in the Epic Games Store
Players spent $265 million on third-party PC games listed in the Epic Games Store in 2020. That’s 37.86% of gross sales.
Spending on store titles not developed by Epic Games is increasing by 5.58% year over year.
We’ve charted spending on third-party games in the Epic Games Store since 2019:
| Year | Spend (share) |
|---|---|
| 2019 | $251 million (36.91%) |
| 2020 | $265 million (37.86%) |
Source: Epic Games.
Epic Games Store PC users
The Epic Games Store has more than 160 million PC users. Compared to 2019, that’s an increase of 48.15%.
Here’s a table showing Epic Games Store user growth since 2019:
| Year | Total users |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 108 million |
| 2020 | 160+ million |
Source: Epic Games.
Epic Games Store monthly active users
The Epic Games Store has 32 million monthly active users. The monthly active user base has grown by 75% in the last year:
| Year | Monthly active users |
|---|---|
| December 2019 | 32 million |
| December 2020 | 56 million |
Source: Epic Games.
Epic Games Store daily active users
The Epic Games Store has 31.3 million daily active users. In other words, 55.9% of the monthly active user base access the store on a daily basis.
The number of daily active users has increased by 192.52% over the previous year, outstripping the growth in monthly active users by 2.57x.
We’ve charted the number of daily active Epic Games Store users since 2019:
| Year | Daily active users |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 10.7 million |
| 2020 | 31.3 million |
Source: Epic Games.
Epic Games Store peak concurrent players
The Epic Games Store registered a peak of 13 million concurrent players in 2020. That’s a 44.44% increase compared to the peak of 9 million achieved in 2019:
| Year | Peak concurrent players |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 9 million |
| 2020 | 13 million |
Source: Epic Games.
Epic Games Store hours of playtime
Users of the Epic Games Store clocked up 5.7 billion hours of playtime in 2020, a 70.15% increase over the previous year.
Here’s the breakdown of hours played on Epic Games Store titles since 2019:
| Year | Hours of playtime |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 3.35 billion |
| 2020 | 5.7 billion |
Source: Epic Games.
How many games are available in the Epic Games Store?
The Epic Games Store catalog reached 471 titles in 2020, having introduced 281 new games since 2019:
| Year | Games |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 190 |
| 2020 | 471 |
Source: Epic Games.
Free games on the Epic Games Store
The Epic Games Store listed 103 free weekly games in 2020, worth the equivalent of $2,407.
73 games were temporarily made available for free in 2019, worth a total of $1,455. The value of free games offered has increased by 60.45% in the last year.
Here’s the full breakdown of free games released on the Epic Games Store since 2019:
| Year | Free games (total value) |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 73 ($1,455) |
| 2020 | 103 ($2,407) |
Source: Epic Games.
How many free games have been claimed in the Epic Games Store?
Players in the Epic Games Store claimed a total of 749 million free games last year. That’s a 3.74x increase since 2019:
| Year | Free games claimed |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 200 million |
| 2020 | 749 million |
Source: Epic Games.
What are the most popular games in the Epic Games Store?
4 of the top 10 most popular games in the Epic Games Store are tagged as action titles.
Fortnite, a shooter developed by Epic Games, features among the top 3 most popular titles.
Here are the top 10 most popular titles in the Epic Games Store in 2020:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Action, RPG, Open World)
- Satisfactory (Open World, First-Person, Simulation)
- Fortnite (Shooter, Multiplayer, Single Player)
- SnowRunner (Simulation)
- Godfall (Action, Adventure, Co-op)
- Borderlands 3 (Co-op, RPG, FPS)
- Rocket League (Co-op, Multiplayer, Single Player)
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (Action, Sports)
- GTA 5 (Action, Adventure)
- Rogue Company (Shooter, Co-op, Multiplayer)
Source: Epic Games.
How many people play Fortnite?
Fortnite, a multiplayer shooter, is an Epic Games flagship title.
As of May 2020, Fortnite had over 350 million registered users. That equates to 100 million new registrations in the space of a year.
The number of registered Fortnite accounts has increased 11.66x since the end of 2017.
Here’s the complete breakdown of the number of Fortnite registrations since August 2017:
| Date | Registered users |
|---|---|
| August 2017 | 1 million |
| December 2017 | 30 million |
| January 2018 | 45 million |
| June 2018 | 125 million |
| November 2018 | 200 million |
| March 2019 | 250 million |
| May 2020 | 350 million |
Source: Epic Games.
Conclusion
That’s all for my list of Epic Games Store stats in 2021. The digital storefront is adding more users and game titles every year.
The Epic Games Store offers favorable conditions for developers, granting an 88% cut of the revenue. That’s higher than competitors like Steam, which retains up to 30% of sales.
How do you see the future unfolding for the Epic Games Store? Is it a legitimate challenger to Steam?
I’d also love to hear from you with any questions or comments on the stats I’ve included, or on the Epic Games Store more generally.
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