In December 2018, Epic Games announced the “Epic Games Store,” a direct competitor to Steam to sell digital PC games. To help entice developers, they advertise a 88/12 cut in favor to developers, and a full 100% of profits to games that use Epic’s Unreal Engine. To entice gamers, they made several announcements of exclusive indie titles for the platform. Steam tried to counteract this by offering a new profit-split deal, and Discord’s Game Store announced they would beat Epic’s revenue split (90/10) sometime in 2019. For the first time in nearly a decade, there is genuine competition in the space.
That escalated quickly in just a few weeks, didn’t it?
Just a handful of stores to sell your indie game in 2019…
