Since its release on August 4,Fall Guyshas become a bit of a phenomenon on PlayStation 4 and PC, garnering over 1.5 million downloads on PlayStation 4and breaking over a 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, making it publisher Devolver Digital’s biggest launch for a game ever. But all this hype is causing some serious FOMO for those on other systems, leaving them wondering if they will ever be able to get in on the fun.
Fall Guysis so popular in fact that it is (at the time of this writing) in the top 5 games with the most viewers on Twitch, pushingMinecraftto number 5 and bootingCall of Dutyand itsWarzonebattle royale mode to the number 6 spot. That popularity has of course had some unintended side-effects, as the game ended up having somerather large server-troubles over the weekenddue to the unexpected number of players.
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This indie game that wasn’t on everyone’s radar a month ago certainly is now. The fact thatFall Guyswas given out as part of August’s PS Plus free games lineup has many thinking that there might be some sort of console exclusivity, but Xbox and Switch owners jealous of PlayStation shouldn’t worry too much. On the officialFall Guyssupport page of developer Mediatonic’s website, the developer answers those hoping for word of an Xbox or Switch release:
“To start with, Fall Guys will only be available on PS4 and Steam. We’d love to bring the game to other platforms further down the line. Please let us know on Twitter and Discord which platforms you’d like us to release on next - we’d love to see how much demand there is!”
This sounds likeFall Guysmight be only a timed-console-exclusive for PlayStation due to whatever deal was struck to makeFall Guysfree for PS Plus users. Regardless of what people may feel about exclusivity deals, fans ofFall Guysshould recognize the massive boost in popularity and players giving out a game free to almost everyone on PlayStation gives. After all, that was part of howRocket Leaguereached 5 million downloads in a little under a month in 2015. Without that initial surge of players,Rocket Leaguemay not still be going as strong as it is today.
HopefullyFall Guyscan achieve that same level of success and longevity going forward. Afterall, the folks at Mediatonicdid reveal that to be their plan on a recent Reddit AMA.Fall Guysis a special kind of game that only comes around once every few years, especially when it brings something so fresh to a genre that is beginning to become a bit homogenous.
Fall Guysis available now on PS4 and Steam.
