Once you do that, you will need to click on Settings -> Family -> Family Sharing Library and you should see an account there to share with. If it’s simply a way to bring viewership to smaller developers, good on Epic Games.The trickiest part of sharing with Steam is you will need to log into the same computer your friend or child has previously logged in to with your Steam account. There is always a chance that someone using the Epic Games Store app has no idea what Itch.io is, and they could find a variety of fun games, or interesting app projects within it.
We’ll just have to wait and see if there’s any kind of future plans or changes that come of this.Īccording to Itch.io, this is just another way for people to discover their app. It sounds like Epic Games Store just wants to add options for people to download a variety of apps like Itch.io, but it feels a bit random. You can download Spotify through it! If it had Spotify-integration, that would be rad, but instead, it’s just another place to download the Spotify app (which wasn’t really needed in the first place). This isn’t even the only thing interesting (or weird) you can find on the Epic Games Store. We thought it was a funny idea, but also a good opportunity to potentially expose a lot more people to itch.io, as the EGS has a pretty large audience.” “They reached out to us a few months back about how they were exploring adding apps to their store. Itch.io referenced this in a recent blogpost, and answered the important question of “ Why”: Will the Epic Games Store receive a portion of the proceeds of apps bought through Itch.io, or is this simply a way for Epic to help smaller developers out? There’s no telling how this will work out.
As we said, it could be a huge move for the smaller app, and we hope it is. Seeing an app store within an app store is such a strange decision, with the Epic Games Store added Itch.io to its collection.