Epic Games Store Reveals Its Most Anticipated Games of 2023

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Epic Games Store has revealed the top 20 most anticipated 2023 games among its ever-growing user base, in addition to disclosing a wide variety of commercial milestones it recently managed to hit as part of its latest Year in Review report. This insight into the Fortnite maker's digital storefront arrived just as Epic threw shade at Steam by launching a new self-publishing tool for game developers, continuing its fierce rivalry with Valve.

Introduced in December 2018, Epic Games Store didn't take long to position itself as Steam's biggest rival, swiftly overtaking the likes of Origin and Uplay, which nowadays go by EA Play and Ubisoft Connect, respectively. It's no coincidence that the timing of the platform's debut coincided with the global success of Fortnite; the early billions generated by the battle royale hit financed a wide variety of exclusive deals with developers and a consistent influx of free Epic Games Store titles that continue to be a key growth driver for the storefront to this day.

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As part of its latest Year in Review report, the North Carolina-based company has now revealed an unordered list of the top 20 most anticipated 2023 games among its users. About half of the highlighted titles are AAA projects such as Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Skull and Bones, and The Last of Us Part 1, though the list also includes plenty of indies, including some Epic Games Store PC exclusives like Tchia and Crime Boss: Rockay City. A few AA games such as Hades 2 and STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl add to the variety of the collection, whose contents were presumably derived from user polls, seeing how not every listed title can currently be wishlisted on