Fall Guys' Free-For-All Update Will Give The Game A Second Life
The next big update coming to Fall Guys might be the revitalization the game needs to bring the game to a new audience. After its launch in August 2020, Mediatonic found huge success, in large part because of Fall Guys' launch on Playstation Plus. Following this successful launch, it seemed that studio Mediatonic was unprepared to continue maintaining a game that was much more successful than the team anticipated.
In early 2021, a few months after the game's surprising launch, developer Mediatonic was purchased by Epic Games, which players believed would give Mediatonic the resources they needed to continue to buildFall Guys. Due to Epic Games' experience with other prominent indie game developer Psyonix, and the continued success of Rocket League, players had reason to be hopeful. Despite this, though, the Fall Guys team still stayed pretty quiet about future events. While new seasons and costume collaborations with franchises Ratchet and Clank were continuously added, none came close to getting Fall Guys to its previous heights of popularity.
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With Fall Guys' new Free For All update, it seems this partnership with Epic Games is now paying off. Like Rocket League, Fall Guys is officially going free-to-play starting on June 21. Along with going free-to-play, Fall Guys is coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and the Epic Games Store. Crossplay and cross-progression are coming to all platforms with the Free For All update as well, giving Fall Guys a united player base, right when it adds an infusion of players coming with new platforms.
The combination of going free-to-play and adding cross-progression was a very player-friendly move by Mediatonic and
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