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Epic has released stats for the Epic Games Store – and they show impressive growth.<\/p>\n

Monthly active users rose from 32 million in 2019 to 56 million in December 2020, Epic announced in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s a big jump, but the Epic Games Store still has some way to go before it catches up with market leader Steam. Earlier this month, Valve announced Steam<\/a> had over 120 million monthly active users.<\/p>\n

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Epic has released stats for the Epic Games Store – and they show impressive growth. Monthly active users rose from 32 million in 2019 to 56 million in December 2020, Epic announced in a blog post. That’s a big jump, but the Epic Games Store still has some way to go before it catches up with market leader Steam. Earlier this month, Valve announced Steam had over 120 million monthly active users. 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