The Epic Games Store is aggressively challenging Steam with exclusive games, free giveaways and an attractive revenue split for developers. At the same time, it's also far behind the features Steam has built up over the years, like Big Picture mode, mod workshops, and heck, a basic shopping cart. Epic is playing catch up.
Epic is being pretty transparent about the Epic Game Store patch process, which means we have some idea of what's coming, and regular patch notes alongside updates. We're going to keep track of those patches here, to stay abreast of bugfixes and new features as they arrive.
Here’s the Epic Games Store’s patch notes for November and December, with past updates on the second page.
Epic Games Store patch notes - December 2019
Epic Games Store Client 10.10.4 / 10.10.5
- Improvements to third party integration.
- Bug fixes
Epic Games Store patch notes - November 2019
Epic Games Store Client 10.10.3
- Overlay Updates
- Bug fixes
Epic Games Store Client 10.10.2
- Improvements to toast notification system.
- Bug fixes
Epic Games Store Client 10.10.1
- Third party integration support
Epic Games Store Client 10.10.0
- Added support for Origin integration
Epic Games Store Client 10.9.0
- Bug fixes
Epic Games Store Client 10.8.3
- Bug Fixes
How the Epic Games Store roadmap works
The most important thing to know about the Epic Games Store’s patch process is that they’ve got an entire roadmap dedicated to the work they’re planning: Epic Games Store Roadmap Trello.
Don’t know what Trello is? It’s one of those fancy workflow management tools. Tasks are listed as cards that contain info and assets for a project, and cards get moved around to different columns to indicate how far along they are.
The Epic Games Store Trello is organized into columns for future (further out) development, features "up next," and those recently shipped.
What’s up next?
- Storefront - Discover
- Storefront - Browse
- Storefront - Curated Collections
- Storefront - Trending
- Critic Reviews
- Self-service refunds
- Wishlists
- Price Protection
- Mod Support for Games
What’s coming in the future?
- Newsfeed and Follow Improvements
- Shopping Cart
- Gifting
- Social Overhaul
- Direct Carrier Billing
- Price Adjusting Bundles
- Achievements
- Additional Payment Methods
- Additional Currencies
- User Reviews
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