Updated navigation to easily find everything the Epic Games Store has to offer as well as a new way to quickly launch into your most recently played games.In addition, we also made the following updates: So far, 25 titles have added achievement support. We also shipped Epic Achievements and added an Achievements Profile Page for players to track their progress. Players can now have up to 50 items in their cart at any moment. We hope you had fun.īy far the most anticipated feature for the store was the Shopping Cart, which we released in December.

If you played a game from the Epic Games Store in 2021, you were part of a community that spent 6.2 billion hours in-game. Over 31M people participated in the event, snagging over 159 million items during the event, a 14% increase over Holiday Sale 2020. This year's holiday sale was bigger than ever. 76 free games broke their peak concurrent user records on PC, with an average of 13 times their all-time records! That’s incredible engagement.

Over 765 million free games were claimed by players, bringing those titles to a new audience. Many developers and publishers collaborated with us over the year to give away 89 free games worth $2,120. We continued to give away free games each week. Third-party games represented 36% of all sales with more than $300M in player spending, a 12% increase from 2020. About $840M was spent through the store in 2021, up 20% from 2020. We now have 917 titles for sale on the Epic Games Store, nearly doubling what we had available to customers in 2020. Players bought more games and played them for longer in 2021. December’s monthly active users peak reached 62M users, an increase of 11% from last year’s peak of 56M. Daily active users peaked at 31.1M, and peak concurrent users reached 13.2M. There are now over 194 million Epic Games Store PC users, an increase of 34M from 2020. We’re proud to be part of a growing community of developers, publishers, players, and creators who made 2021 another humbling year for us. The Epic Games Store continued to grow in 2021 and we’re excited about what we have in store for 2022. Just as we did last year, we’ve looked at all of the data and gathered it together for a retrospective. With 2022 underway, we can look back on the last year of the Epic Games Store and share what happened along the way.

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