The Epic Games Store is making its way to the Google Play Store on Android devices soon, but it’s been a long process to get to this point. Following years and years of legal battles between Google and Epic Games, Google was finally ordered to open up the its app store platform to third-party app store applications, while also adapting the fee structure that it was using for apps for the entirety of Android’s history.
Google has already started this process with other third-party app stores. Earlier this month, it started allowing the Aptoide Games store inside Google Play. So far this is the first third-party store available, but it won’t be the last. Google was also recently ordered to remove further barriers to entry. While stores like Aptoide Games are now available, they sit behind ‘warnings” that alert the user to the fact that it does not review every app in those third-party stores. Judge James Donato referred to these as unnecessary warnings that Google was required to remove within a week, which would be August 21.
Alongside Google’s Play Store access, Samsung is working to simplify Epic Games Store access on its devices
Google isn’t the only one working to make it easier for users to download the Epic Games Store on Android devices. Samsung is reportedly working alongside Google to simplify this process as well. Tim Sweeney, Epic’s CEO, recently spoke to press at Unreal Fest Seoul 2026. He states that Samsung and Google are working together to get rid of any barriers that still linger which make installing the Epic Games Store on Android more difficult than it needs to be.
Sweeney doesn’t mention any details about what Samsung is doing alongside Google to simplify this process. Just that the company is a part of it.
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