Decentraland launches on Epic Games Store and Android as metaverse goes multiplatform

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The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the earliest and most persistent experiments in decentralised virtual worlds, appears to have reached a different conclusion. On Monday, the project launched on the Epic Games Store and released an Android app on Google Play, with an iOS version to follow. The message is clear: if people will not come to the metaverse, the metaverse will go to where people already are.

The Epic Games Store listing is the more strategically significant of the two moves. Epic’s platform reached 317 million registered PC users in 2025 and set a record of 78 million monthly active users in December of that year, according to the company’s annual review. Third-party game spending on the store rose 57 per cent year on year to more than $400 million. For Decentraland, which has long struggled with the perception, and at times the reality, that its virtual world is sparsely populated, placing itself alongside Fortnite and other mainstream titles on a storefront with that kind of traffic represents an attempt to solve a distribution problem that no amount of blockchain architecture could fix on its own.

Yemel Jardi, executive director of Decentraland, framed the launch in distribution terms rather than technological ones. Epic Games, he said, has become a primary discovery channel for desktop experiences, and being there strengthens how people find and access Decentraland. He described it as part of a broader strategy to meet people where they already are, with plans to expand to additional stores over time.

The mobile launch follows a similar logic. Decentraland’s Android app is now live on Google Play, with the iOS version expected shortly. The project cites figures from Mordor Intelligence showing that mobile devices command 71.55…

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