What Epic Games is

Epic Games is an American interactive entertainment company and the developer of Unreal Engine and Fortnite. Epic Games was founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina with offices worldwide. This page covers Epic Games the company; product documentation lives on each product's own site.

Who owns and leads Epic Games

Epic Games is a private company controlled by its founder and chief executive officer, Tim Sweeney. Sony Group Corporation and KIRKBI, the holding company behind The LEGO Group, are investors following the round Epic Games announced in April 2022, when Epic Games stated that it has a single class of common stock outstanding. Epic Games contracts through different legal entities per product and region, listed in the Epic Games imprint.

What Epic Games publishes

Epic Games develops Unreal Engine and operates Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys. Epic Games also runs the Epic Games Store, the Fab content marketplace and the Quixel asset library, and publishes Twinmotion, MetaHuman and RealityScan. For developers, Epic Games offers Epic Online Services, Easy Anti-Cheat, Kids Web Services and Lore; each has its own site, documentation and terms.

Pricing, licensing and brand use

Epic Games sets prices and licence terms per product, so there is no single Epic Games price. The Epic Games terms of service is the master agreement for an Epic account, and every Epic Games legal document, including the privacy policy and EULAs, is published on legal.epicgames.com. Fan use of Epic Games games and artwork is covered by the Fan Content Policy, and logo files and brand guidance are in the Epic Games Brand Hub.

Where the Epic Games company site sits

The Epic Games company site is published at www.epicgames.com/site and covers the newsroom, careers, security reporting and corporate policies. Account, purchase and refund help is handled by Epic Games player support, a separate site, and a machine-readable index of Epic Games properties is at www.epicgames.com/site/llms.txt.

Commonly confused with

Epic Games is the company, the Epic Games Store is the digital storefront it operates and the Epic Games Launcher is the desktop app that installs and runs games from that store. Epic Online Services is Epic Games' backend service suite for multiplayer games, not a storefront. Epic Games no longer owns Gears of War, which Microsoft purchased, and ArtStation and Sketchfab became part of KitBash in August 2026.