Can you appear offline on Epic Games?

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Over the last few years, Epic Games has built up a PC gaming platform that rivals the established giants in the industry, like Steam.

The platform took the success of its hit game, Fortnite, and ran with it, creating a brand new game publishing platform and drawing in new game developers.

With such a quick rise to the top in this category, Epic Games has missed the chance for some nice quality-of-life features that other platforms do a little better.

For starters, Epic’s store is sometimes difficult to navigate and lacks some finer tweaking found on other platforms.

And your game library can sometimes look like a huge mass of gibberish compared to the super useful sorting that you find on platforms like Steam.

And what about appearing offline? While gaming on Steam or Battle.net you can appear offline or ‘invisible.’

But what about Epic Games? Can you just hop into a game of Fortnite without everyone on your friends list seeing that you’re online?

So, can you appear offline on Epic Games?

Short Answer: No

Unfortunately, Epic Games doesn’t have an option for users to appear offline while gaming.

Without this feature, there’s no way for you to hop into an online game without your entire friend list seeing that you are online.

However, there is one workaround that will kind of get the trick done, but it limits what you can do on the platform.

Here’s how to appear offline on Epic Games

Epic will let you browse the platform and play some games in offline mode.

That said, the feature is somewhat complicated and pretty limiting. We’ll break it down below.

As you can see, the only way to appear offline on Epic Games is to actually go offline.

Not super convenient if you’re looking to hop into an online experience without your friends knowing.

Nevertheless, this will let you remain incognito when you’re playing games that don’t require you to be online.

That’s got to be worth something, right? No? Yea, you’re right, probably not.

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