Epic 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.
Why unfortunate? Surely competition to Steam is a good thing?
No… Not intrinsicly. Epic is about as anti consumer as you can get. And they are even more anti developer then steam is.
They just ass fuck devs via unreal engine and eac along with poaching games for extremely fucked exclusively deals. So the epic store it self looks “better” because they can abuse it as a loss leader and basically not invest into it at all.
Epic store isn’t real competition. It’s a competitor only so far in that it’s a digital store. But its like comparing Walmart to bestbuy.
If epic had its way everything would be worse then it so it can be on top. Not because it’s better but cause it’s made everything around it worse so it looks better by comparison.
It’s the entire reason the joke valve does nothing and wins. Because they don’t give a single fuck what other stores do and just focus on themselves and make sure they arnt abused for the services they offer.
So the worse thing you can say about valve is they have some restrictions on devs that prevent them from abusing services to the point it degrades the consumers experience.
Other then that it’s just industry standard stuff that sucks, mostly because outside of only steam no other store actually justifies the costs and downsides of digital distribution.