Epic Games with their digital game store Epic Game Store revealed that they currently have more than 500 million Epic Games accounts.
Part of the account is used to buy and play games on PC. In addition, this account is also used to play on console and mobile devices to play Fortnite and Rocket League games.
Reported by us from Engadget, Monday (21/2/2022) Epic Games Store already has more than 194 million users in 2021, an increase of 34 million from the previous year.
The company said that daily active users reached 31.1 million and peak concurrent users reached 13.2 million, while there were 62 million monthly active users in December.
Epic Games' achievement seems to be thanks to the free games they often offer. Where last year Epic gave away 89 different titles and 765 million free games overall.
Even thanks to the GTA V game that is given for free, Epic Games gets 7 million new users in just one day. And several other games, such as Civilization VI, World War Z, and Subnautica also provided a surge in new users.
Epic has committed to giving away free games again by 2022, so it seems the company continues to think it's worth the cost to bring in users.
Epic also revealed where players spent an estimated USD 840 million on the Epic Game Store in 2021, a 20% increase from 2020. More than a third of that was spent on third-party games.
The biggest third-party titles on the Epic Game Store last year were Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, Hitman 3, Far Cry 6, Genshin Impact, Darkest Dungeon, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Chivalry 2 and GTA V.
Meanwhile, Epic says there have been more than 6 million downloads of The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in two months.
There was also a 40% increase in the number of Unreal Engine downloads last year, while Epic says 48% of the currently announced gen games are being built on Unreal Engine.