Steam vs. Epic Games Store: Which PC Gaming Client Is Better For You? 

Personally, I buy the games I want on Steam and and take the free ones from Epic, then adding them as a non Steam game on the Steam Launcher so that all my games are in one place. Simple as that

It’s simple. Have both and buy the games you want on whatever one you want.

Steam is so much better. No internet? No problem. Play your games in No special mode. Epic games probably hired the same crew from rockstar to develop their launcher just saying

I think it wasn't quite fair that you mentioned Unreal Engine without at least mentioning Source.

90% of the games i buy on Steam to keep things mostly in one place. But the Christmas 2023 sales Epic Games had a much better game sale with much cheaper prices tbh because of the 33% off coupon that stacks with the sale prices.

Steam is the best since it has online features for games like HUDs for TF2, workshop items for Gmod, and you can buy almost every game on it. I only use epic for Fortnite lol

The workshop is the main reason i buy everything off of steam, there’s so much more you can do with your game than with epic

Steam does give full games away to keep forever ... a couple that I took advantage of that I can remember were Black Desert Online & Company of Heroes 2. Not as frequently as Epic but, to say that Steam only makes games available to play for free for limited time periods as opposed to giving them away for free to keep would be incorrect. With respect to the Steam Discovery queue, you can also modify filter keywords to include or exclude titles that have those keywords associated with them. If you want to exclude all RPG's for instance, update your filters to remove that keyword for games so they don't show up in your Discovery Queue. I find this very useful for narrowing down what I''m interested in seeing in my Discovery queue. You mentioned Steamdeck but, didn't elaborate. Steamdeck is basically Valve's, developed from the ground up, handheld PC that gives you full access to your Steam library of games to play on the Steamdeck. You can connect peripherals (mouse, keyboard etc) via the USB connection and connect a monitor via the PC Display Port and play games that way. Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity (no Ethernet port on the Steamdeck itself). There is also a Dock that provides more USB connections, an Ethernet connection and Display port and HDMI connectivity. Not sure if Epic has something similar but, Steam also allows you to share your game library with your family members and guests. You can authorize up to 10 devices and 5 accounts to play games from you library. I had an Epic account at one point but, the "decent" games that they gave away, in my opinion, were few and far between. Epic is good for the game developers because they get to keep more of the money from the sales of their games which the purchasers of their games never see as a discounted price. Can't blame them really. They sign exclusive one year deals with Epic and as soon as they are no longer restricted in the distribution of their products they run right back to Steam to make them available their to a much larger player base. In my mind, Steam has a lot more to offer the gaming community than Epic will anytime soon. Hope this was useful :)

Steam took my cherry with online distribution, but the advantages of Epic Games are getting harder to ignore. While Steam does have a larger library of gamees, not only are the prices usually much cheaper for the same game/DLC on Epic due to Steam taking a larger cut from the developers (like the video said, Epic Games take 12%, which is a ratio that can be lowered even further if the developer uses Epic Games' own Unreal Engine, whereas Steam takes up to 30%), but the fact that Epic gives away free games.. sometimes AAA titles .... for free....... for... FREE... is just a game changer (pun not intended, but appreciated) for someone who can't spend a fortune on games. I still use Steam because of all the games I have bought since forever and their modding community is admittedly superb, but Epic has quickly become a serious contender.

Steam is good for the gamer, Epic is good for the developer

Decisions decisions, do I want to send another email to our lord and saviour Gaben or forget the fact that Epic murdered my beloved Unreal Tournament!

Steam has a much better launcher and most indie Devs tend to put their products on there, but Epic Games giving free games every week is so nice.

"Steam doesn't offer free games, only free trials" is incorrect. Not only does Steam offer games that are free forever, developers of games can decide if they want to make their game free for a certain period of time. Everyone who "buys" the game during that timed exclusivity period will get and KEEP the game for free. Example: Titan Quest Anniversary Edition was recently free on Steam. I have a copy of it in my library and I can play the game without ever having to pay for it. If you look into the store now, as of July 4th, 2022 (Summer Sale period) the game costs $5.

Using both costs nothing

Uhh where is PC game pass in this convo?

Steam, of course. Reviews, good trophies, way more fun, screenshots, you can edit your profile. Better UI. Better performance.

As someone who has used both quite alot, steam is obviously the better choice. Even if you remove all the extra features that steam has, epic game LITERALLY DON'T EVEN WORK. It signs you out automatically after a certain time period, and sometimes the epic games website wouldn't even load. I was barred out of my own account for a couple of days since the password reset link would always 404s

Epic used 100% of my bandwidth to download a game for a day straight and the game never downloaded. Safe to say I have some trust issues with Epic after that.

epic sucks for re installing your games, you had saved on a different drive. all the tutorials and epic games answers dont work.

Everytime when i play a game on epic games:session expired for some reason,never happened on steam

Steam is amazing❤️ Gabe Newell is a god🙏

i've bought 1 game on epic, and honestly i haven't played it in 2 years, i refuse to give epic money, they made so many promises, and we are in 2022 and very limited titles with achievements.

as a laptop user: which one is easier on the system?

Hey, dude on the part when u blurred the name before organizations it said it was on the top left, just to let u know.

I have this dilemma if I should buy some specific games from epic stores now that it is the mega sale period or wait till the same games have a discount on steam. I checked the history price on steam but currently they are lower on epic than they have ever been on steam.

That was a very superficial comparison you really didn't do your research did you,

Steam has Play Together, Stream, Steam Link, Controller Support for PS and Nintendo , Family Share, Big Picture Mode, Steam Deck and better interface to find your games. Game downloads interface is a lot better as well.

is this a joke? steam is the best client.

GOG > Steam > Zoom Platform > Epic.

Steam you can make your profile and custom it to look awesome

Nothing comes close to steam. I have some of my epic games library added on steam just to replicate it but it's not as good as the real deal. Only reason I even have epic is for exclusives and free games, although the ecosystem makes me never want to actually check them out. I have a few fallout games, bioshocks, tomb raiders, etc. But I'm only ever playing either steam or switch

0:42 Good job trying to blur your name but we can see it in the upper right corner. 😂

Still remember when Epic game give GTA 5 for free and i miss the deadline. Ass

I can not understand why its missed Steam smooth and fast, Epic store laggy and slow If you wonder what is PC specs: AMD Ryzen 5900x / RTX 3080 / 32GB RAM

Steam. Period.

I use steam eipc just for free games, danm i have all the batmans, sometimes not all the times i do play them, like deamon pinball

Steam has the first mover advantage. Epic has a long way to go to be steams equal.

Steam is better by a mile

This is such a non-question that I fail to see how there's even a need for a video like this.

epic is trash steam is better gog is best

Xfire

Why tf epic never just steal ideas from steam and add them to their launcher bruh

Epic games sucks because compare the download games take forever. But steam have faster download

Personally epic is better, the curation is a lot higher unlike steam, steam is too much like the google play store. Also free games.

is steam is legit or not ??

As a person who doesn't have much to spend on games I've noticed that Epic games have much better deals and sales. I remember buying dying light 2 for 20$ on epic when it was 30$ on steam. Right now at this very moment Outlast trials early access is 14$ on Epic while 30$ on steam.

epic got that AAA stuff that i need, and my library is there only, so yeah, epic it is

Imagine unironically using Epic.

Steam got more games

Epic games is terrible. Its not even worth comparing

Sony and Lego have entered into a long-standing partnership with Epic. I think Epic is very good. Unfortunately, it doesn't own many of the games that are on Steam. Example Final Fantasy 14

Steam is nice for community achievement support controller but epic games respect the user from poor contry by doing fair regional price one day epic games will beat steam unless they do same regional price for exemple a game cost 50 dollar in steam cost 27 dollar and some game cost 40 dollar on steam and in epic 7 dollar on epic without any sold except for game like final fantasy 7 remake and some other japanesse game if epic store add achievement for every game and support controller they will defenetly beat steam soon

I couldn't play my Steam of Spiderman PC for two weeks. Got no help at all. I'm now in the midst of getting a refund. I'll try with Epic next.

I prefer epic because it is developer friendly, customer support is better and quicker, and there is regional pricing.

You get the same games as for Steam only cheaper on Epic. The End.

It depends cause epic games have better cheaper prices

So guys i am living in Hong Kong i think that Epic gaming is better for me at paying it is because i can use alipay hong kong but in Steam I can't use well Steam is better at games because there is a lot to choose from

Epic games!

Epic is better!

Both are bad, but at least we have user review on steam, epic only gives corrupted critic reviews

epic red dead redemption 2 is 1150 tl on steam 300 on epic

Well with me I have both. Because with steam I've had a lot of situations where steam has tried to rob me like my experience with dying light witch is why I got epic games I spent a lot of money on dying light on steam only for steam to try and rob me and refuse to load the game after it finished installing I mean I've had that happen a lot with steam those greedy bastards have tried to rob me tones of times but epic games hasn't failed me yet just started playing dying light 2 right now and I gotta say I might fully just switch to epic games cause at least it knows how to do its job unlike steam