aid: epic-games name: Epic Games description: >- Epic Games is the studio behind Fortnite, the Unreal Engine, the Epic Games Store, MetaHuman, RealityScan, Twinmotion, RAD Game Tools, and the Epic Online Services (EOS) backend. Epic operates a unified developer portal at dev.epicgames.com that hosts the EOS SDK and REST APIs (Auth, Connect, Friends, Presence, Lobby, Sessions, Achievements, Stats, Leaderboards, Player Data Storage, Title Storage, Voice, Sanctions, Anti-Cheat, Reports, P2P, Ecom, User Info), the Unreal Engine documentation, the Epic Games Store publishing tools, and the Kids Web Services (KWS) compliance platform. EOS is cross-platform and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iOS, Android, and web. This profile rolls Epic's developer-facing surfaces into a single index; the Unreal Engine surface has its own dedicated profile. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg url: https://www.epicgames.com created: '2024-01-01' modified: '2026-05-23' specificationVersion: '0.19' type: Index access: 3rd-Party tags: - Achievements - Anti-Cheat - Cross-Platform - EOS - Epic Online Services - Game Backend - Game Development - Games - Identity - Lobby - Matchmaking - Multiplayer - Sessions - Unreal Engine - Voice apis: - aid: epic-games:epic-online-services name: Epic Online Services (EOS) description: >- Epic Online Services is Epic's free cross-platform backend for games. EOS exposes both a native C/C++ SDK (with Unity, Unreal, and platform wrappers) and a set of REST web services covering identity (Epic Account Services, Connect, Auth), social (Friends, Presence, Blocklist), play (Lobby, Sessions, P2P, Voice), progression (Achievements, Stats, Leaderboards), storage (Player Data Storage, Title Storage), integrity (Anti-Cheat, Sanctions, Reports), and commerce (Ecom). All EOS APIs are gated behind an Epic developer organization, sandbox, and client credentials issued in the EOS Developer Portal. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/services/epic-online-services baseURL: https://api.epicgames.dev tags: - Achievements - Anti-Cheat - EOS - Game Backend - Identity - Lobby - Sessions - Voice properties: - type: Portal url: https://dev.epicgames.com - type: Documentation url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-online-services - type: GettingStarted url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-online-services/eos-get-started - type: SDK url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-online-services/platform-sdks - type: WebAPI url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/web-api-ref - aid: epic-games:epic-account-services name: Epic Account Services description: >- Epic Account Services provides OAuth 2.0 / OIDC sign-in with an Epic Account, exposing user identity, display name, country, preferred language, and linked-account information to integrating games and tools. It powers cross-platform Epic login and is the identity layer underneath EOS Auth. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-account-services baseURL: https://api.epicgames.dev tags: - Authentication - Identity - OAuth - OIDC - SSO properties: - type: Documentation url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-account-services - type: Authentication url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-account-services/auth-interface - aid: epic-games:epic-games-store-publishing name: Epic Games Store Publishing description: >- The Epic Games Store publishing surface lets developers upload builds, configure store pages, manage offers, run sales, and integrate with EOS achievements and entitlements. Publishing tools include the BuildPatchTool / EOS SDK Tool for uploading builds and a developer portal for managing products. There is no fully self-serve public REST Store API; publishing is gated through Epic's onboarding. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/store baseURL: https://dev.epicgames.com tags: - Builds - Entitlements - Publishing - Store properties: - type: Portal url: https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/store - type: Documentation url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-games-store - aid: epic-games:kids-web-services name: Kids Web Services (KWS) description: >- Kids Web Services is Epic's compliance and parental-verification platform for games and online services that handle children's data. KWS exposes REST APIs and an SDK for age verification, parental consent collection (COPPA, GDPR-K, age-appropriate design code), account linking, and consent revocation flows. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://kidswebservices.com baseURL: https://kidswebservices.com tags: - COPPA - Compliance - GDPR-K - Kids - Parental Consent - Privacy properties: - type: Portal url: https://kidswebservices.com - type: Documentation url: https://docs.kidswebservices.com - aid: epic-games:unreal-engine-pointer name: Unreal Engine (Pointer) description: >- Unreal Engine is profiled separately. See the unreal-engine entry for Unreal SDK / Plugin / Pixel Streaming / RHI / Online Subsystem details. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://www.unrealengine.com baseURL: https://www.unrealengine.com tags: - Game Engine - SDK - Unreal Engine properties: - type: SisterEntry url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/unreal-engine common: - url: https://www.epicgames.com name: Epic Games Website type: Website - url: https://store.epicgames.com name: Epic Games Store type: Store - url: https://dev.epicgames.com name: Epic Developer Portal type: Portal - url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs name: Epic Developer Documentation type: Documentation - url: https://dev.epicgames.com/community name: Epic Developer Community type: Community - url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/web-api-ref name: EOS Web API Reference type: APIReference - url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-online-services/eos-get-started name: EOS Getting Started type: GettingStarted - url: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/services/en-US/Tutorials name: EOS Tutorials type: Tutorials - url: https://github.com/EpicGames name: Epic Games on GitHub type: GitHubOrganization - url: https://status.epicgames.com name: Epic Games Status type: Status - url: https://www.epicgames.com/help name: Epic Games Help type: Support - url: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog name: Unreal Engine Blog type: Blog - url: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/eula name: Epic Games Store EULA type: TermsOfService - url: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/privacypolicy name: Epic Games Privacy Policy type: PrivacyPolicy - url: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/eula name: Epic Games EULA type: TermsOfService - url: https://x.com/EpicGames name: Epic Games on X type: X - url: https://www.facebook.com/epicgames name: Epic Games on Facebook type: Facebook - url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/epic-games name: Epic Games on LinkedIn type: LinkedIn - url: https://www.youtube.com/@epic name: Epic Games on YouTube type: YouTube maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com