Epic’s Game Store Is Bringing Fortnite Back To Google Play

Following an appeals tribunal triumph connected Thursday, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted that “the Epic Games Store for Android will beryllium coming to nan Google Play Store.” This is contempt Google’s scheme to entreaty nan Ninth Circuit panel’s decision, which declined to overturn a 2023 assemblage verdict that Google’s app shop and costs strategy had go forbidden monopolies.

There’s nary item yet connected timing, but it would make accessing Fortnite and different Epic-distributed games overmuch simpler connected Android devices, without relying connected sideloading aliases making deals pinch telephone manufacturers to preload nan store. On iPhone and iPad, the mobile type of nan Epic Games Store is still only disposable successful nan European Union, but Android users could sideload it from nan web since nan apps launched past fall.

Epic whitethorn not beryllium nan only institution to put a rival app shop wrong of Google’s Play Store successful nan adjacent future. The Ninth Circuit appears to person lifted a enactment connected nan full imperishable injunction that Epic won against Google’s app shop monopolies, and that injunction would force Google to ace unfastened Android for different third-party stores arsenic well. “The enactment is lifted,” Epic spokesperson Cat McCormack confirms to The Verge.

The Epic Games Store connected Android maintains your persistent position successful games crossed platforms, and earlier this year, nan institution brought its play free games program to nan mobile stores, too. It besides has different Epic games, for illustration Fall Guys and Rocket League Sideswipe.

In a connection provided to The Verge, Google’s world caput of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland said, “This determination will importantly harm personification safety, limit choice, and undermine nan invention that has ever been cardinal to nan Android ecosystem. Our apical privilege remains protecting our users, developers and partners, and maintaining a unafraid level arsenic we proceed our appeal.”

Thanks to nan verdict, nan Epic Games Store for Android will beryllium coming to nan Google Play Store! It's already disposable worldwide from our web site, https://t.co/f77ZSrBMGd.

Epic Games Store for PC already carries respective different PC stores (https://t.co/92elnB3IGv, GOG Galaxy). https://t.co/4ndkMmhLUX

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) July 31, 2025