Every month you can go on the Epic Games Store and snag a usually pretty decent game for absolutely free. It’s not clear if this largesse is meaningfully moving the needle in the company’s battle to establish itself as a competitor to Steam,

Epic has published its Epic Games Store Year In Review for 2024, revealing more details about the performance of its PC storefront and what it has planned for 2025. According to Epic, it saw 295 million users on PC in 2024, an overall increase of 25 million people year-over-year. And the free game giveaways aren't going anywhere.

With 2024 now well behind us, the Epic Games Store has shared its annual look back at the year that was. On the whole, it sounds like a pretty good year for Epic, which saw the number of games on its store, and the number of people using it, both take big jumps.

Five years after its launch, the Epic Games Store is close to reaching a user base of 300 million PC players, despite tough competition from Steam.

Epic saw 295 million Epic Games Store PC users, up 25 million year-over-year, according to a blog post. 595 million free games were claimed during the year as well. Epic is promising a bunch of improvements to the Epic Games Store in 2025,