Fall Guys

In 2018 Mediatonic lead designer Joe Walsh pitched a Takeshi's Castle for a hundred people. By launch a match held up to 60 players, and ragdoll physics were picked partly because falling over is funny.

Fall Guys came out on 4 August 2020 and became the most downloaded monthly game in PS Plus history, while on Steam it sold over 7 million copies in three weeks.

Around then brands and streamers faced off in a charity auction for a costume of their own in the game. Ninja, MrBeast, G2 Esports and Aim Lab won with a joint bid, raising about a million dollars for the charity SpecialEffect.

On 21 June 2022 the game went free to play and launched on Xbox and Switch.

On day one the servers buckled under the crowds, and one reviewer was annoyed by imprecise controls, though he praised it as a family game. Players leave 81% positive of 467,813 reviews, and critics give it 80 on Metacritic. In our Recommended Score it ranks #637 of 4,736 games.

Enjoyed it? Try Stumble Guys, a mobile take on Fall Guys, and Ultimate Chicken Horse, where the players themselves set the traps on their rivals' way to the flag.