Almost 8 years after Epic handled Steam with its own Game Store and launcher, the Fortnite maker is releasing a brand-new tool to offer it an edge over Valve: ambiance coding.

In revealing the brand-new openly offered “Preview” develop of its Epic Games Launcher, Epic composes that “programs is hard. Rather of doing that, we vibe coded a brand-new Epic Games Launcher that’s method quicker and more responsive than the present one, and has a brand-new appearance.” And while that may sound a little tongue-in-cheek, Epic Games Store General Manager and VP Martin Keely informed PC Gamer that the group “went back to square one” and utilized AI as “a tool to compose and evaluate brand-new functions and brand-new abilities from the ground up in a various tech stack than what we had formerly.” The objective, Keely stated, was to “take a look at performance that existed [in the current Epic Games Launcher] and [say] we wish to reproduce that, however not the code itself.”

Talking to IGN, Keely clarified that utilizing AI to code the brand-new Launcher “made us more effective and permitted a little group to reword the code base and have the ability to release it quicker throughout platforms, assistance Windows and Mac, and we’re going to have a Linux variation too.”

We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher to be faster than the other guy.

Do not think us? Check it out on your own in Preview:
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— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) October 14, 2026

The concentrate on start-up speed reaches Epic’s social networks statement, which when again worries that “we vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher to be faster than the other guy.” Ars’ own screening verifies that the brand-new Launcher goes from a cold start to the shop page a couple of seconds quicker than Steam (presuming no login or upgrade concerns obstruct). Impressive likewise declares the brand-new Launcher can bring back from the system tray to the Library screen a little quicker than Steam, though the declared distinction of 0.06 seconds in this appears so little regarding be undetectable (and remained in our screening).