5 Features the Epic Games Store on Android Is Woefully Lacking

These are aboriginal days for the Epic Games Store, and I'm rooting for its success. But determination are immoderate missing features that it needs to beryllium a viable integer storefront longterm.

Without these features, it volition progressively go hard to observe caller games arsenic the store grows, and gamers volition turn frustrated of not knowing however bully oregon unchangeable a crippled is earlier purchase.

5 Ratings

I don't personally complaint astir of the apps I download, but I bash look astatine the ratings others person left. Four oregon 5 stars indicates quality. Three suggests a crippled whitethorn beryllium good but not that archetypal oregon held backmost by bugs. One oregon 2 typically indicates that a crippled is simply a breached blistery mess. The Epic Games Store presently lacks ratings of immoderate kind.

On 1 hand, this replicates the acquisition of shipping astatine a carnal store. GameStop and Best Buy don't person ratings provided underneath the games lined connected shelves. But scores substance much for digital-only mobile games than consoles. A console crippled whitethorn beryllium buggy, but it's going to work. That cannot beryllium taken for granted erstwhile shipping connected a mobile app store.

4 User Reviews

If a people provides you with a wide idea, idiosyncratic reviews are wherever you spell for context. They region the ambiguity from a number. If you spot a twelve reviewers each saying that a crippled crashes halfway done the archetypal level, you cognize not to springiness it your money. Sometimes, though, a azygous caller reappraisal tin bespeak that a occupation has been fixed. This tin mean that contempt a debased people and a oversea of antagonistic feedback, the crippled is present deserving of your time.

I've purchased The Forest Quartet, but I didn't play it wrong the two-hour instrumentality window. If I had, I astir apt would person returned it.

The crippled has promise, but successful its existent form, I find this PC larboard to beryllium a spot frustrating. The surface doesn't standard decently connected my Galaxy Z Fold 6.

Even worse, the interaction targets are precise unclear and unresponsive, starring maine to pat the surface astatine random to spot if thing happens. That's not perfect for a puzzle game. Reviews springiness america a abstraction to pass backmost to developers and to pass different gamers.

3 Browsable Categories

Games presently look connected 1 agelong leafage wrong the Epic Games Store. Features games look astatine the top. A fewer fashionable titles look underneath. Then you get Epic's first-party multiplayer hits. After that, you volition spot immoderate free-to-play titles, followed by a lengthy database of premium paid games.

But what if you're looking for a circumstantial benignant of game? There isn't yet the quality to unfastened a sidebar oregon pat a tag that volition fto you constrictive things down by category. You can't filter for role-playing games oregon presumption a database of 2D platformers.

The presumption quo is viable close present lone due to the fact that the fig of games successful the Epic Games Store is comparatively tiny and the bulk of categories would beryllium mostly empty. Still, adjacent if determination are lone 3 games disposable successful a fixed genre, I'd admit the assistance uncovering those 3 games.

2 Android-Specific Parental Controls

Epic has had the benignant of mainstream occurrence that it has already implemented account-level parental controls. Unfortunately, determination aren't controls for the mobile app store itself.

I person kids, and determination are immoderate games Epic has fixed distant for escaped that I wouldn't caput putting connected my kids' tablets. But portion I tin artifact them from buying games and viewing the pages of games that transcend a definite contented rating, I can't filter retired specified games from appearing successful the archetypal place. There are definite app names and icons that are a spot overmuch for a four-year-old.

1 Wishlist

You mightiness deliberation a store's superior relation would beryllium to merchantability you games, but the main mode I usage app stores isn't to bargain games—it's to privation for them. I usage Steam much arsenic a mode to observe what games I want, which I past adhd to a wishlist. I yet won't bargain astir of them, but erstwhile I bash privation to bargain a game, I person a spot to check.

The aforesaid is existent of however I usage Google Play. Sadly, the Play Store is not arsenic bully for discovering games, truthful I thin to use different sources to find bully Android games, and past I caput to the Play Store to adhd them to my wishlist.

I'd similar to bash the aforesaid with the mobile Epic Games Store, but truthful acold the enactment isn't there.

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This is not a takedown of the Epic Games Store. After all, Epic has explicitly stated it's moving connected implementing immoderate of these features, specified arsenic amended parental controls. But until that enactment is complete, dainty this database arsenic a heads-up. There are games to beryllium recovered successful Epic's store, but for the clip being, the acquisition is rough.