Epic Games is the main competitor of Steam, the current largest company in digital game sales. Well, they have recently announced that at the end of the year we can enjoy all their games from their Epic Games store on mobile. Let's see what this arrival of one of the digital video game distributors on mobile platforms will mean.
Epic Games Store arrives on mobile through the big door
Recently we were able to see Steve Allison, manager of Epic Games Store, during the State of Unreal on March 20 announcing the arrival of the Epic Games store on mobile for both Android and iOS operating systems.
This announcement comes after the achieving a great year for the Epic Games family, specifically for the company's store, which has managed to reach record figures this year. The most surprising data that demonstrates the great authority that the company that created the Unreal Engine graphics engine has earned are the following:
- More than 270 million accounts on PC endorse the popularity of the platform.
- More than 75 million active players month after month. This figure demonstrates the authority of this platform that emerged years ago with the arrival of Fortnite.
- And in terms of collection it is surprising, they have achieved more than 950 million dollars from player purchases alone inside the platform.
According to these data, the success of Epic Games is a reality and not only that, but it exceeds the expectations that were had for it for this year. Many also thought that Epic Games was going to have a drop in popularity due to the drop in players in Fortnite and Fall Guys, two of its most popular games. But this has not been the case, the opposite has even happened and that is that Fortnite is experiencing a second youth, or is it already the third youth?, thanks to the arrival of racing modes and especially its LEGO mode.
You can benefit from all the free games on your mobile
If you are a video game lover you will know that Epic Games Store has managed to attract many players from other platforms thanks to its offer of free games and at a good price. And I'm not talking about games like Fall Guys, Fortnite or Rocket League, which are games that are financed with in-game purchases and are already profitable in themselves.
I'm talking about all the paid games that they offer every week for free, just like PSNow is doing, but for free just for having an account on the platform.
Some titles that they have been offering for free and the most players they have are the most profitable game in history GTA V, Destiny 2 It's a great game that they gave for Christmas last year, Borderlands 3 the most current game in the Borderlands saga or all the tomb raider modern. If you know the video game world, you will know that we are not talking about games from small developers. All these They are triple A titles given away by the Epic Games store.
And apart from these you will also have all the ones that they give away week after week so that you can get a catalog of hundreds of Epic Games games on mobile.
An evolution that scares its competitors
If I asked my five-year-old self about where I can buy computer games, the answer would without a doubt be Steam. Now if you ask me now I would have to add Epic Games to the answer. And it is that Until 2018 this game store did not exist, the rapid growth that EGS has had is surprising.
The company behind the breakout game Fortnite has struggled for years to offer the best games at a competitive price and different promotions that no digital video game store has been able to compete with, bridging the gap with the almighty Steam, which also offers free games.
But the arrival of this company to the world of mobile games, which currently represent the majority of profits in the video game industry, will surely be a knock on the table that will be able to launch a exodus of female developers to mobile services.
Equally We will have to wait until the end of the year to be able to enjoy the Epic Games service on mobile. In the meantime, we can continue enjoying and amassing Epic games on our computers, waiting to be able to carry all this fun in our pocket.