The New Craze, Why is Fall Guys So Popular?

Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout is a surprisingly funny battle royale in which there are no weapons and you can ruin the lives of your opponent’s only by pushing them into the abyss or stealing their tail, the game was released on august 4^th on steam and PSN and six days later the developers from Mediatonic reported on the first results, Gabe Newell’s service alone has sold over 2 million copies just a week.

Since the release, Fall Guy’s launch broke the popularity records for the biggest releases of the year on steam, beating Doom Eternal, Death Stranding, and Horizon Zero Dawn. The developers honestly admitted that they underestimated the sales, so the servers are constantly suffering from excessive load.

The recipe for success turned out to be simple, Fall Guys is the friendliest and most bloodless battle royale of everything that has ever come out of that genre. This game is a battle royale for teenagers which adults are happy to play, Fall Guys offers players easy controls with literally three action buttons: jump, dive, and the ability to grab and squeeze an enemy tail. The controls are straightforward and understandable for every gamer with more than 30 minutes of gaming experience.

The game combined platforming from the 3d Super Mario Brother games with the War Zone battle royale without landing helicopters, each race here becomes a struggle for survival by jumping on endless platforms, revolving traps, and fake doors. Almost all levels one way or another offer a crowd of players to run through the obstacle course without being in the tail, slowest dropout. The final goal is to survive become the king of the hill and be the first to reach the coveted crown.

Fall Guys has a lot more minuses than pluses in its structure, Fall Guys is similar to a set of different mini-games from virtual football to tags over the abyss, with the need to remember the locations of the safe platforms. Some of these levels are highly random, others are too simple and others require an incredible reaction time, but all of them can be studied in four to five hours and they will start to get boring, therefore the developers will need to diversify the gaming experience somehow, so as to not lose the audience’s interest.

The servers work as crookedly as in Torchlight 3. At launch, there are disconnects and loads of problems with matchmaking, when the game cannot collect a full party of 60 gelatinous candies. There is no training in the game, there is no game with AI bots, there is no training mode, but there are cheaters with whom Mediatonic seems to be trying to fight.

There are no impressive graphics or any new game mechanics either everywhere you look there are problems, at the same time Fall Guys is called nothing less than the Rocket League of 2020, a phenomenally successful game from developers that no one had heard of.

You don’t need to be a marketing expert to understand the Fall Guy’s popularity phenomenon, people want casual games like these that retain the competitive edge and don’t try to be just more than fun. The PS4 audience was lured by the launch of the game on PS plus on release day. The crowd of PC with a lower price tag and a free battle pass.

If the publisher knew about such popularity in advance the battle pass would have been selling for ten dollars, from the beginning we did not find anything new in fall guys, the game just skillfully mixed elements of platform games and royal battles into one can and then come up with the characters in the form of jelly beans.

The developers are already talking about their collaborations with Half-life Alyx and other cult projects for example there is a costume of the rooster, the protagonist of Hotline Miami. Devolver Digital is unlikely to miss the opportunity to advertise other flagships of the publisher, so we are waiting for the costumes from Sirius Sam and Shadow Warrior 2.

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