Epic has released stats for the Epic Games Store – and they show impressive growth.
Monthly active users rose from 32 million in 2019 to 56 million in December 2020, Epic announced in a blog post.
That’s a big jump, but the Epic Games Store still has some way to go before it catches up with market leader Steam. Earlier this month, Valve announced Steam had over 120 million monthly active users.
There are now over 160 million Epic Games Store PC users, Epic said. Daily active users are up 192 per cent to 31.3 million, with a peak of 13 million concurrent players in 2020 (up from seven million in 2019).
Steam, on the other hand, hit 62.6 million daily active users, with peak concurrent users hitting 24.8 million last year.
Epic’s surge in growth sparked an increase in purchasing and playtime, as you’d expect. The company said that in 2020, PC customers on the Epic Games Store spent over $700m, of which third-party games represented 37 per cent at $265m.