20
Epic Games Store [unfortunately] saw a 57% increase in purchases for third-party PC games in 2025 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Yea, definitely felt dirty buying from there, but it's the only store the game will ever be available from, and Remedy makes fine games

[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Wait, does remedy have an exclusivity deal with epic?

this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
20 points (77.8% liked)

PC Gaming

13867 readers
602 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com