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,

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.

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,

The Epic Games Store's freebie for February 20 may be an enhanced edition of a content-packed 2019 game with largely favorable reviews.