The Epic Games Store is about to get two huge new features


One of the most developer-friendly game storefronts for Windows PC, iOS, and Android — as well as the biggest competitor to Valve’s dominant platform Steam — is about to get even better this summer.

That app is the Epic Games Store, a launcher and distribution service launched by Unreal Engine and Fortnite creator Epic Games back in late 2018 on PC and eventually came to mobile devices last year. On Thursday morning, the company announced that two major new features are coming to the platform in June. The first is a change to its revenue share policy that will see game developers pay 0% of the first $1 million it makes each year on games it launches on a per-app basis.

“Starting in June 2025, for any Epic Games Store payments we process, developers will pay a 0% revenue share on their first $1,000,000 in revenue per app per year, and then our regular 88%/12% revenue share when they earn more than that,” wrote the firm.

Hugely popular games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will accrue quite a bit of extra dev profit over time thanks to Epic’s new revenue sharing policy. (Image credit: Sandfall Interactive)

On top of that, Epic is also announcing that support for webshops — stores that offer microtransactions on in-game items — hosted on the Epic Games Store are coming to its platforms. Unlike in-app purchases that allow companies like Google and Apple charge developers fees, the firm says these out-of-app purchases on Epic won’t have these royalties. Notably, the reveal of this upcoming feature comes immediately after a judge ruled that Apple has been skirting around an order to stop preventing developers from offering players out-of-app stores on Wednesday evening.



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