Epic Game Store Leak: How Did Unannounced Games Leak

A third-party tool seems to have accidentally leaked a bunch of games on the Epic Games Store. Such an event was last seen when several games were leaked through Nvidia GeForce Now. A website dubbed EpicDB featured public pages for a bunch of unannounced titles from Square Enix, Sega, Sony, Saber Interactive, and several other publishers.

While what many users found were codenames, going through the metadata and checking related files showed a lot of what they could be. The story might sound confusing, so let’s have a look at what actually happened, which games leaked, and what has Epic done to prevent it from happening again.

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How Were These Games Leaked Epic Game Store

EpicDB is equivalent to SteamDB, which is an unofficial database of everything on the digital games platform. Valve never puts out release sales data, but a lot can be understood by looking at SteamDB’s charts and lists, which offer a more detailed view of how games are doing on Steam. It’s a great way to see if player count is growing, what has been wishlisted the most, and how games have done over the years.

SteamDB only lists games that have live story pages. That wasn’t the case with EpicDB, which listed pages that were registered but weren’t pushed online yet. Gaming fans were quick to catch up, leading to a wave of unintentional leaks.

Several unannounced AAA titles were listed. A user on ReserEra posted some screenshots, noting that if users search through publishers on the database, they will see every release registered through the Epic Games Store. Some are more obvious than others; a Turok remake from Saber Interactive was also listed under the name of a listing called simply “Turok” created last month.

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Which AAA Games Were Leaked?

Several leaked games are listed under codenames. Speaking of the Sony Interactive Entertainment page, there are listings with the codenames “Utah” and “RhodeIsland.” Several users have speculated that Rhodelsland could be The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered PC port. Besides, Square Enix Japan’s page shows games with the codenames “Skobeloff” and “Momo.”

Momo even had multiple extras listed, including preorder items, a digital soundtrack, and a deluxe upgrade. This has helped people determine that Momo could likely be a Final Fantasy 9 remake since the name makes multiple references to the game. Skobeloff was listed with three pieces of DLC, which led to theories that it’s a PC port of Final Fantasy 16.

We request our readers to take this information with a pinch of salt. Codenames can be pretty random, so they might not connect to projects. Anything seen in the leaks should be considered a rumor until there’s an official announcement.