Epic's PC game store, the Epic Game Storereached over 100 million customers. The company credits the success in part on its strategy of giving away games each week, and it says that it will continue to do so throughout 2020.
More than twelve months have passed since the launch of the Epic Games Store - and the steam competitor has mixed up the PC industry, generated $ 680 million in sales and attracted 108 million registered users. But how successful have exclusive games like Metro: Exodus and Borderlands 3 really been? Epic provided the following numbers:
- 108 million Epic Game Store customers overall
- $680 million spent by PC gamers in the Epic Game Store
- $251 million spent on third-party games in the Epic Game Store
- 73 free games given away in 2019
- 200+ million free games claimed by customers
- The average rating of all the free games in 80 percent
The most popular games in the Epic Game Store in 2019 were World War Z, Satisfactory, Dauntless, Untitled Goose Game, and The Outer Worlds, Epic says. Furthermore, the team will extend its free games program to 2020. Not only that, but Epic Games will sign up more exclusive deals in 2020.