RAISTAR Posted February 6, 2021 Posted February 6, 2021 There haven't been many Epic Store exclusivity announcements recently, which got me wondering if Epic might be winding down that part of its strategy. Nope. According to Epic, the opposite is the case. "We have more exclusives coming in the next two years than we have published to date," a company representative told PC Gamer when asked about its exclusivity strategy for the near future. There goes my theory. If you just look at the numbers, though, things have quieted down recently. By my count, there are currently around 21 unreleased Epic exclusives ahead of us, and I'm guessing about some of them. That's not very many considering that over 100 exclusives have released on the store over the past two years. Of those, a little under half released long enough ago that their exclusivity contracts have expired, and they're now available on Steam. That includes games such as Metro Exodus, Borderlands 3, Control, The Outer Worlds, and Hades. RECOMMENDED VIDEOS FOR YOU... video playing The PC Gamer Show 155: Devil May Cry 5, The... 07/03/19 Crusader Kings III - Best Strategy Game of the... 30/12/20 Spelunky 2 - Best Roguelike Game of the... 21/12/20 Spelunky 2 Review | PC Gamer 28/09/20 This week in PC gaming: Left 4 Dead 2's first major... 19/09/20 Consider my numbers to be estimates, because they're based on a manual count and a little speculation. There'll also be different opinions about what counts as an "exclusive." I've included any game that released on the Epic Store but not Steam, whether or not a reason was given, and whether or not the game released on other, non-Steam stores. Here's what I came up with: Epic Store exclusives: the current numbers Games you can buy on the Epic Store, but not Steam*Games that were Epic exclusives, but are now on Steam, tooUnreleased Epic Store exclusives** 655021 *Excludes games made by Epic itself (Fortnite, Unreal Tournament). **Includes games that will also release on Ubisoft or Microsoft's stores, and assumes that Epic-published games will be exclusives. With those numbers is mind, you can see why I suspected that Epic had stopped acquiring exclusives as aggressively as it had been in 2019 and early 2020. Epic says that isn't the case, though, which suggests that there are a lot of upcoming games we don't know about yet.
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