Epic has published its Epic Games Store Year In Review for 2025, revealing more about the storefront’s performance last year. According to the company, 2025 was a year of growth, as player spending on third-party PC games grew by 57% to an all-time record of $400 million. PC players spent $1.16 billion on the Epic Games Store, up 6% year over year.
The storefront reached an all-time record of 78 million monthly active users on PC, and 6.65 billion total gameplay hours were logged in 2025. Epic did note that overall gameplay hours declined year over year, while hours spent in third-party titles increased by 4%. Spending–including on Epic’s games–reached $1.16 billion in 2025, an increase of 6% year over year, and, as usual, the Free Games Program continued to attract users for both its free PC and mobile games.
Here’s a closer look at how Epic’s 2025 was shaped by record user numbers, free games, and significant spending.
Total PC users reached a new high
Over 317 million PC users accessed the Epic Games Store in 2025, with the store peaking at 78 million active users in December 2025. On average, there were 67 million monthly active users–a 1% decline–and daily active users declined by 2% to 31 million. Cross-platform accounts grew by 8% to 972 million, and 2.78 billion gameplay hours were spent in third-party games alone.
Revenue and engagement by the numbers
- $400 million spent by players on third-party PC games in Epic Games Store (+57%)
- 2.78 billion total third-party gameplay hours (+4%)
- $1.16 billion spent by PC players on the Epic Games Store (+6%)
- 6.65 billion total store gameplay hours (-14%)
- 972 million cross-platform accounts (+8%)
- 317 million+ total PC players
- 78 million MAU in December 2025, an all-time record (+6%)
- 67 million average MAU (-1%)
- 31 million average DAU (-2%)
Everybody loves free games
Epic’s Free Games Program served up 100 titles–valued at $2,316–in 2025. The company says 662 million free games were claimed throughout the year.
Free Games by the numbers
- 100 free games offered
- 662 million free games claimed
- $2,316 in total value per player
- 78% average score across all free games
Live-service games continued to dominate in 2025
Epic arranged its top PC games according to three tiers: Mythic, Legendary, and Epic. At the very top of the list are several live-service titles, with Fortnite unsurprisingly leading the pack. In fact, all of the games in this category are free-to-play games, including the popular Genshin Impact, Rocket League, and Honkai Star Rail.
In the Legendary tier, EA Sports FC 25 was at the top, followed by more free-to-play games like Zenless Zone Zero and Infinity Nikki. Grand Theft Auto 5 continues to be popular more than a decade after its release, while Dead by Daylight also drew in plenty of players. The Epic tier included several hit games like Arc Raiders, Alan Wake 2, Borderlands 4, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Dead Island 2 and Hogwarts Legacy also appeared on this list, likely because they were Epic Games Store freebies for a week.
Top PC Games Titles in 2025
Mythic
- Fortnite
- Wuthering Waves
- Honkai Star Rail
- Rocket League
- Genshin Impact
Legendary
- EA Sports FC 25
- Zenless Zone Zero
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Dead by Daylight
- Infinity Nikki
Epic
- Football Manager 2024
- Alan Wake 2
- EA Sports FC 25
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Dead Island 2
- Borderlands 4
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- ARC Raiders
What’s next for the Epic Games Store in 2026?
Following last year’s improvements to the storefront–such as a new download manager and enhanced discovery–Epic is planning to rebuild the platform’s underlying architecture. “These changes will make the storefront on the launcher responsive and feel good to use, with fast load times and greater stability,” Epic said in a press release. ” To create a better social experience for players, we’re creating community spaces in the Epic Games Store and enhancing cross-platform text chat with features like avatars, player profiles, and private messaging.”
Epic will also extend these features to its online services, and in Q2, it will add voice chat and game-independent parties to its social framework. It also plans to become more developer-friendly by launching an official program to help studios and publishers sell more games through the storefront, leveraging Fortnite’s popularity. Players who purchase participating games will get a Fortnite cosmetic along with a matching character avatar for their Epic account profile.
Later in 2026, a cross-platform library for players across PC and mobile will be added, and regional storefronts with localized discovery are also in the pipeline.
