"Our social features on PC suck," Allison says in an interview with The Verge. "Let's call it what it is." Social features are the "battery that powers Fortnite," Allison says, and Epic wants to "take that battle-tested social framework and move it up from Fortnite up to the store level." The idea is that you'll be able to party up and chat with your Epic Games friends across devices, theoretically meaning that friends on Android, iOS, and PC could all hang out through the Epic Games platform (not just Fortnite).
We might be waiting a while to try the social features out, though, as Allison says they won't arrive until at least after summer 2025. More immediately, Epic is planning to bring its free games program to mobile sometime in the fourth quarter (which, if you're watching the calendar, is this quarter!). Unlike on PC, free mobile games may not be offered weekly to start, though they'll probably move to weekly once Epic launches tools to self-publish on its mobile store.
Some free games might only be available on Android because of Apple's core technology fee, which could sting developers with costs they may not be able to pay. Third-party games are set to appear in the mobile Epic Games Store in the fourth quarter as well. Allison has previously pegged the launch for December.
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