Every month you can go on the Epic Games Store and snag a usually pretty decent game for absolutely free. It’s not clear if this largesse is meaningfully moving the needle in the company’s battle to establish itself as a competitor to Steam,

Five years after its launch, the Epic Games Store is close to reaching a user base of 300 million PC players, despite tough competition from Steam.

Epic saw 295 million Epic Games Store PC users, up 25 million year-over-year, according to a blog post. 595 million free games were claimed during the year as well. Epic is promising a bunch of improvements to the Epic Games Store in 2025,

PC players have used Epic Games Store in the last year, up 25 million from 2023, and 898 million are using Epic cross-platform accounts - that's up 94 million. Together, we've run up 2.68 billion hours of playtime.