Epic Games is undoubtedly at a very important point in the game world, especially the PC platform. In the past hours, Epic Games shared its data about the year we left behind and its plans for 2022.
2021 Year Review
Epic Games has more than 194 million PC players, an increase of 34 million compared to 2020. While the highest number of daily active users was recorded as 31.1 million, the number of active users at the same time reached 13.2 million. In December, the highest number of monthly active users was recorded as 62 million, an 11% increase compared to last year (56 million).
In 2021, Epic Games nearly doubled its game library, reaching 917 games. US$840 million was spent in-store, a 20% increase compared to 2020. Third-party games accounted for 36% of all sales at $300 million, a 12% increase compared to 2020.
In 2021, a total of 89 games worth $2 120 were given for free. These games have been acquired for free 765 million times in total. 76 of the free games broke records, hosting an average of 13 times more users simultaneously than their all-time record on PC!
Store Features Released in 2021
- Shopping Cart
- Epic Achievements
- Updated navigation features to easily find everything the Epic Games Store has to offer and quickly launch your most recently played games.
- Social Panel improvements with improved Personality to see what your friends are playing.
- New skins to explore New Releases, Best Sellers and Coming Soon games as well as Categories/Genres for items in store.
- Improved Wish List support with optional email notifications when your favorite game goes on sale.
- Introducing the Epic Games wallet to customers residing in the US and Canada, allowing quick and easy payments by giving players an option to top up their Epic Games account directly.
- Improved product pages to allow displaying more information and visual content before adding to Wish List or cart.
- New Epic Games Store Newsletter Email (you can sign up in your profile settings).
- A total of 43 currencies support, with 13 new currencies added in 2021.
2021 Most Popular Games on Epic Games
- FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE
- Hitman III
- GTA V
- Far Cry 6
- Chivalry II
- Darkest Dungeon II
- Fortnite
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Genshin Impact
- Rocket League
In addition, Epic Games conveyed the plans for 2022 as follows:
What is planned for Epic Games Store players in 2022?
First off, we’re excited to confirm that the weekly Free Games will continue in 2022.
Epic Achievements were the first step in bringing live player profiles to the store. Profiles give players a single place to view all their achievements, browse playtimes for games in their library, and much more.
We have received a lot of feedback from players regarding Library and Download management and we will actively deal with it next year. Topics we’ll be interested in include prioritizing and sorting selected games for download, more options to help you filter and organize your library, the ability to see more games in the library view, and the ability to see your library outside of the launcher.
And much more:
- Improvements on social features such as voice communication on the platform with game-independent groups
- Community features to start with Ratings and Polls set by users
- Game Networks to get the latest updates and news from the developers about the games you own or follow
- Expansion of the list of countries where the Epic Wallet feature is available
- Continuing improvements to launcher speed and performance
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