If you scroll below the stars, it has corporate reviews provided by opencritic. Which is what i confused with real reviews.

Honestly, the stars are better than ign and other craptastic critics.

Teens are kids, they've just got half a brain and adult hormones mixed in. They still need guidance and supervision.

I hate it because it's like they're trying their hardest to make a shitty storefront.

It's awful.

I get almost none of the information I need when on a game's store page. Meanwhile, I get all the info I need and then some on the same game's Steam page.

It's like they don't want to sell their product.

I do definitely appreciate the weekly free games. Sometimes, like this week, they have solid offerings. It's Dead Island 2 this week, btw.

I just went through this yesterday! I did a big upgrade on my wife's computer, fresh install of Windows on a 2TB NVMe drive replacing the aging 120GB SSD that somehow didn't completely fill up, etc. Etc. really loved pointing epic at the installs on the secondary drive and it just ignoring them and instead spending 3 hours downloading Fortnite after we just spent 1 hour applying the last update yesterday (and another hour on a different update the day before too!) on the drive that's RIGHT THERE IN THE COMPUTER!

Don't forget about exclusives!

For unplayable, Rocket League had very good Linux and macos native builds.
Epic required them to delete support for those operating systems as part of the acquisition of Psyonix

I don't like the Epic Game Store because Epic has turned it's back on Linux. Their client doesn't run on Linux which is where I do all my gaming. I also recognize the economic fuckery they're doing to gain popularity. They're spending their Fortnite war chest money on subsidizing games to give them away for the purpose of monopolizing their game store. It's not fair for other game stores like GOG who can't just buy game licenses for everyone to become popular.

I hate console gamers as they've perverted the FPS genre.

It's a bad experience overall

The UI was super buggy for me

I want all my games on Steam and to not have to install multiple apps

There's absolutely nothing wrong with epic games store. People think just because everyone on the internet told them not to like it so they have to not like it. It's a store. It sells you games then when you click on the game it opens so you can play. That's it literally that's all it does same as steam same and Xbox. Just like stores in real life I buy things where the price is the best which sometimes means I buy on epic or steam depending on the sales.

Because in 2025 people get info about games they are buying from the app store instead of twitch or YouTube or the game devs website. Give me a fucking break dude.

Epic makes their money off microtransaction stores and they bought exclusive rights to a bunch of titles a while back, meaning you could ONLY play them on Epic.

There are worse companies, though.

Oh yeah, I didn't think about that. That's super gross.

The only way I know anything about the games I buy is by reading the store page. If I have to go looking for the dev's website, it's because something has gone wrong.

so thats what this drama ive been seeing on reddit as well.

After reading your comment I'm not sure if it's just me, but I tend to not buy where owner of the store treat me like shit. Neither in real life nor online.

The other platforms on PC, for example Steam, itch, gog, all do better things.

Itch really supports game jams, which in turn supports smaller devs and puts out a lot of unique stuff, much of which is free. They also allow devs to choose what percent itch gets with even zero as an option.

Valve is a massive contributor to open source projects and the game dev community. They have contributed a ton to SDL which is used to make many games and engines, and Proton is rocketing wine development forward. Steam also allows adding non-Steam games and even lets you run them with Proton just as easily as Steam native games.

GoG is DRM free, enough said. That in and of itself is one of the most pro consumer stances.

The only plus for Epic is they give out free games, no other redeeming qualities or features.

Don’t forget the beauty of PC is that it’s an open platform, and Epic does nothing to support that.

Not only that, but they made the platform ever so slightly less open when they bought a bunch of games just so that they could remove them from other stores. They garner hatred because they don't try to gain a competitive edge by being good or unique in some way, they're just making gamers who aren't willing to download their launcher suffer.

When I'm browsing, it's my first stop. I want to see the minimum specs to estimate how well it'll run, how the devs market their game at a glance, year of release, rating, etc. Then if it looks interesting it's time for external reviews.

I would recommend doing more research before buying, but I'm a kinda a cheap bitch

I feel like I get a pretty good idea of what a game is like from reviews and discussions.