During the presentation dedicated to GDC 2019, Epic Games told how actively temporarily free projects are downloaded from its store, boasted about the success of the PC version of Metro: Exodus, and also announced new projects in its library.
Free downloads
Every two weeks, one or another premium game is made free in the Epic Games Store for 14 days. For example, from March 21 to April 4, any user of the store will be able to download the Oxenfree adventure game to his library.
Previously, Epic Games did not spread about the results of such actions. However, as part of the large-scale presentation of State of Unreal, which took place today, March 20, some of the figures were announced.
According to the data provided, Subnautica’s survival downloads amounted to more than 4.5 million. The same metrics were achieved by the Slime Rancher simulator.
Metro: Exodus
Specific data on the results of the game on the court were not disclosed. However, Epic Games noted that the sales of the Ukrainian 4A Games game at the start turned out to be 2.5 times more on the Epic Games Store than Metro: Last Light for the same time on Steam.
For all the time, sales of the Redux version of Last Light only on Steam could reach, according to Steam Spy, 2-5 million.
New announcements
As part of the session dedicated to the Epic Games Store, it was also announced that the cult games Quantic Dream — Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human will appear on the site for the first time on PC. They will be store exclusives (how temporary, the question is open, but it is most likely that they will get on Steam a year after launch), as well as:
- Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey (Panache Digital);
- Afterparty (Night School Studios);
- Control (Remedy Entertainment and 505 Games);
- The Cycle (Yager);
- Dauntless (Phoenix Labs);
- Industries of Titan (Brace Yourself Games);
- Journey to the Savage Planet (Typhoon Studios and 505 Games);
- Kine (Chump Squad);
- Phoenix Point (Snapshot Games);
- The Sinking City (Frogwares and Bigben);
- Spellbreak (Proletariat Inc);
- Solar Ash Kingdom (Heart Machine and Annapurna Interactive).
The most important thing: a new Obsidian game, The Outer Worlds, got into the selection of PC exclusives of the site (more precisely, it got into the number of games that did not get into Steam in the first year, it is not quite right to call it an exclusive, since it will be released in the Microsoft Store simultaneously with the release of the “epics”).
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