Fall Guys is a free-to-play platform battle royale game developed by Mediatonic.
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Fall Guys is a free-to-play platform battle royale game developed by Mediatonic.
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Fall Guys received positive reviews from critics for its chaotic gameplay and visual appearance.
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Conception of what became Fall Guys began when Mediatonic was discussing another project in January 2018.
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Fall Guys drew from that inspiration to create a pitch document for what would become Fall Guys.
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Fall Guys began its initial prototyping process with a small team, growing to 30 people during development.
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In February 2021, Fall Guys was announced for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X, scheduled for mid 2021.
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Epic Games later announced that they will focus on adding cross-platform compatibility for all versions of Fall Guys, utilising resources from games such as Fortnite that became available after acquisition by Epic Games.
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The free-to-play versions of Fall Guys added support for cross-platform play with other platforms.
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Fall Guys received "generally favourable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.
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Mercury News praised the "controlled chaos" gameplay of Fall Guys, stating it to be utilising a combination of the elements from the battle royale game Fortnite and the party game Mario Party in such a way that made it "tailored to the coronavirus age".
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Fall Guys praised the simplicity of the game and the diversity of content added with each season.
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Weekend before release during a closed beta, Fall Guys briefly became the most-watched game on Twitch as well as the sixth-best-selling Steam game where it was available for pre-order.
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Fall Guys has been frequently compared to Among Us, in that both are online games which grew in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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