The Epic Games Store is looking back at 2022, a year that saw the platform post some big numbers. While last year saw over 230 million Epic Games Store PC users–an increase of 36 million compared to 2021–a monthly active users peak of 68 million, and 626 new PC titles added to the store in 2022, what’s really impressive are the number of free games that were claimed, which Epic offers on a weekly basis.
Throughout 2022, 99 free games worth $2,240 USD were offered through EGS, and 70 of those games broke their peak concurrent user records on PC. In total, over 700 million free games were claimed by players. Epic has also confirmed that the weekly Free Games Program will continue in 2023, and currently, you can claim Call of the Sea as this week’s freebie. To see what else Epic has to offer with this promotion, you can check out GameSpot’s regularly updated feature on the free games available through Epic every week.
On the business side of EGS, players spent $355 million on third-party applications–up 18% year-over-year– and on Epic’s own games players spent $820 million, which was down 2% from 2021.