The company hasn't said that these games won't ever appear on Steam, but hasn't announced Steam release dates either. Right now, Ubisoft is the biggest single source of future Epic Store exclusives, though it's probably more accurate to label them 'semi-exclusives.' Since 2019, Ubisoft has been releasing most of its new PC games on the Epic Games Store and the Ubisoft Store (formerly known as Uplay), but not on Steam. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake Ubisoft claim that the success they've had with the launch of Tom Clancy's The Division 2 on Ubisoft and Epic stores is what made them consider the switch.Upcoming Epic Games Store exclusives (that we know about) Game They're even having to defend from allegations of being under While it's debatable whose decision these two-weeks notice periods are exactly, Epic's exclusive-reliant marketing strategy definitely isn't winning them any friends. We can't really say that this counts as avoiding it, because another game is leaving Steam about two weeks prior to launch. Head of the Epic Games Store Steve Allison recently the matter, where he said that they'll try to avoid such situations in the future. In truth, it doesn't seem to be much different from Deep Silver's ill-timed retreat of from GabeN's platform, even though they're still leaving Steam users some wiggling room. We're not sure whether the decision will sit well with everyone though, even though Ubisoft seem to think that calling it in early will win them some points. This, of course, includes support for Anno 1800 multiplayer, so platforms will be irrelevant in that respect.

Everyone who pre-ordered Anno 1800 on Steam will be able to play the game upon release and will automatically get all future updates and content', they wrote. 'Pre-orders on Steam can be made until the release of the game.

If you put your money down for Anno 1800 already, or are planning to in the following days, you can still do so, which includes all the support, DLC, etc.

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