The Epic Games Store has always supported third-party games, but the Epic Games Store on Android has not. That is, until today. Epic has announced that the Epic Games Store on mobile devices now supports a bunch of games from third-party developers. You won’t just find Fortnite and other stuff developed by Epic. Now, you’ll find a whole variety of games like Blade of God X, Super Meat Boy Forever Mobile, Samorost 3, The Grand Mafia, and many more.
Some games are free while others will be paid games. Epic says this marks its first wave of games being added to the Epic Games Store on mobile. So that means there will be more and players should expect the number of games available to grow over time. As of now, there are nearly 20 third-party games that have been added. Plus Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe, and Fall Guys.
In addition to third-party games, the Epic Games Store on mobile is also getting free games
Not free-to-play games, but actually free games. Games that would normally cost money. This is the Free Games Program, the same one that Epic runs on its PC game store. Epic says it’s celebrating the first-wave rollout of games by rolling out this program on mobile devices. To start things off, the first two free games are Bloons TD 6, and Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee for Android and iOS. These are normally $6.99 and $7.99 respectively. So you’re saving a decent amount of money on these mobile titles.
The free games available in the Free Games Program will change every so often as well. Just as it does in the PC store. That means two things. One, you can expect new games to roll in and grow your library. And two, you will only have so much time to grab whatever games are free. For the currently available titles, you have 8AM PT on February 20. After that, new games will be swapped in.
New games will be offered each month, but only temporarily
Epic says it will add new games to the Free Games Program each and every month. This is only a temporary thing though. No, Epic isn’t going to stop offering free games on mobile. It’s simply moving to a different type of schedule eventually.
The company says that later this year it will be moving to a weekly schedule for new free games. So you’ll end up getting more free games at a faster rate. That also means you’ll have less time to claim the current free ones once this schedule begins. So users are encouraged to check in on the Epic Games Store app frequently to make sure they don’t miss anything they might like.
