Epic Games Store User Statistics For 2021

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.

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:

  1. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Action, RPG, Open World)
  2. Satisfactory (Open World, First-Person, Simulation)
  3. Fortnite (Shooter, Multiplayer, Single Player)
  4. SnowRunner (Simulation)
  5. Godfall (Action, Adventure, Co-op)
  6. Borderlands 3 (Co-op, RPG, FPS)
  7. Rocket League (Co-op, Multiplayer, Single Player)
  8. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (Action, Sports)
  9. GTA 5 (Action, Adventure)
  10. 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.

You can reach me in the comments below.

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