Fall Guys

 PlayStation 4
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6.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1132 Ratings

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  1. Millenium45
    Aug 19, 2020
    5
    Fall Guys is a fun game when it works, but there are too many bugs and connection issues for it to truly live up to its potential.

    The positives: 1. The game is legitimately fun and, if you don't smile while playing this with your friends, you're probably dead inside. There's tons of charm to this game and it's a genuinely great joy to play, owing to some hilarious player interactions    Fall Guys is a fun game when it works, but there are too many bugs and connection issues for it to truly live up to its potential.

    The positives:
    1. The game is legitimately fun and, if you don't smile while playing this with your friends, you're probably dead inside. There's tons of charm to this game and it's a genuinely great joy to play, owing to some hilarious player interactions and watching as jelly beans haplessly careen into the abyss.

    2. The challenging platforming rounds are exceptionally designed, with Slime Climb being the pinnacle of Fall Guys level design.

    The okays:
    1. The music is infectious but quickly fades into the background. It's good but nothing breathtaking, a solid soundtrack lost in the chaos of the gameplay.

    2. The progression system is rewarding but becomes tedious over time. Kudos, the currency you earn by qualifying through rounds, add up quickly. Experience for the battle pass, however, is a slow grind that is only slightly influenced by your performance; when you're working towards the next stage in the pass, which is 2000 experience away, the small bonuses from finishing first or in the top 20% or 50% don't add up as quickly as you would expect for placing well.

    The negatives:
    1. This game is plagued with connection issues. Looking past the terrible opening weekend where games could barely connect and players would disconnect in the middle of matches because the company "didn't expect so many people" to play a battle royale released for free on Playstation Plus, there are constant hiccups and latency issues. For instance, during a team game called Hoopsie-Daisy, you might jump through a hoop just before a member of the other team but they'll be rewarded a point instead of you. The worst offenders of this latency issue are games revolving around tails, where a player needs to grab a tail from another player. If you grab the player with the tail and hold onto them, even being dragged along with them as they try to flee from your grasping hands, there are times where you won't be able to steal the tail. The developers have said "ouch, that's not the experience we're going for" when asked about it and are working on a fix, but so many matches have been swung by this broken mechanic. It's frustrating and not fun, which is terribly disappointing given how frequently tail games show up in the game rotation.

    2. Matchmaking is a genuine nightmare, spawning uneven teams against impossible odds. If you go into a round with 19 or some other prime number of people remaining, there is an exceptionally high chance that a team game will be next in the queue. One team will be up a player and have that advantage, while the other team just wasn't lucky enough to get that extra help. This happens constantly and sucks away a lot of the fun, since the game simply doesn't want you to win that round. It's possible to win, of course, but it's a lot harder than it needs to be; this is doubly true when the alternative to another team game would be another free-for-all where you might not end up with a prime number of players remaining.

    3. The controls are inherently frustrating by design; it makes sense that bipedal jelly beans could struggle to land on their feet after any sort of jump, so it makes sense that they fall over ever little speed bump. It's still super frustrating and, what makes it worse, it's incredibly inconsistent. When you fall over after walking down from a small ledge or being tapped ever so slightly by another player, it doesn't make any sense for the player right behind you to stick the landing when falling from a greater height. The amount of times I have just blankly stared at the television and said "what" after seeing the exact scenario is incredibly high.

    4. The vast majority of maps are boring and don't offer a high level of challenge. Yes, this is a game that anyone can pick up and play; I understand that. However, many of the maps are mind-numbingly simple. Roll-Out is a prime example: You can not lose on that stage unless another player sabotages you or you are trying something risky for the sake of combating staleness.

    5. This game is hellish to play by yourself. Without the buffer of a friend to play with, you are stuck playing a game with bad controls, bad netcode, and boring maps. Helping a friend qualify or laughing about a failure is amazing, but this game is cold and boring without someone else in your party.

    Final Verdict: Fall Guys is an accessible and enjoyable battle royale, a welcome breath of fresh air in a quickly bloating genre. It's fun and colorful and easy to pick up, perfect for party nights or playing with friends. However, the game is riddled with inconsistent connections, non-functioning controls, and a boring map rotation that has very few exciting choices. Pick it up if you can party up; if not, consider getting a group together before investing any substantial time into this game.    … Expand
  2. Lucianeitor1
    Aug 20, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Este juego es una obra maestra pero la cosa es que tiene bugs los cuales te pueden hacer perder en la final, como por ejemplo:
    -cuando tratas de agarrar la corona en monte majareta pero el personaje se sube encima y no cuenta que la agarraste.
    -cuando caes de muchas plataformas y atraviesas en la plataforma que caiste en hexagonía.
    -cuando agarras a la persona con cola en sopa de tropezones y no obtienes la cola.    … Expand
  3. TitanTechGames
    Aug 21, 2020
    0
    Brilliant! the game is a little bit repetitive ,but over all is a lot of fun
  4. JRekz
    Aug 22, 2020
    8
    Fun and also simple battle royale that ive been enjoying everyday, its fun for people of all ages! I don't enjoy the team games while playing solo, and they could include more updates to split up solo players and teams.
  5. Cris_3125
    Aug 24, 2020
    8
    Molto divertente è un gioco per staccare un po da altri con del gameplay "più pesante" oppure più lungo, le partite sono di breve durata e anche un videogiocatore non esperto può riuscire a cimentarsi in questa esperienza di minigiochi colorati e con uno stile semplice ma facilmente interpretabile
  6. XZedrickX
    Aug 24, 2020
    10
    Very good game I give it a 10 out of 10 This game is very useful playing it with your friends Very very good and very funny
  7. samurai400z
    Aug 25, 2020
    8
    This game while can be annoying does continue to make me smile a lot
    So it's not mind blowing but it is a very good game. So that's a solid 8 in my books
  8. GianpaoloUmarel
    Aug 25, 2020
    8
    The game is pure FUN, more funny if you play it with your friends, it's not like the others Battle Royale, it's like a Takeshi's Caste's Game.
    Must Play. 8/10
  9. Ridleymain
    Jan 5, 2021
    5
    This game is really fun until you win. After that it's really repetitive and is not nearly as fun.
  10. Luka2007
    Aug 26, 2020
    1
    Stupid football dsuhsuhwhjwhhbhsbhhsbhhdhbhdbhbdhbhdbdbhhbhbshhsubhusbhbshubhus
  11. Glemial
    Aug 26, 2020
    5
    This game is a good idea but badly executed. It is a game with a lot of potential but that until the moment leaves something to be desired.
    The problens starts with the servers issues. You will experience a lot of times the servers going do down, and you losing all the progress that you made in that match. The game will not even give you a copansation for your time wasted. That's so    This game is a good idea but badly executed. It is a game with a lot of potential but that until the moment leaves something to be desired.
    The problens starts with the servers issues. You will experience a lot of times the servers going do down, and you losing all the progress that you made in that match. The game will not even give you a copansation for your time wasted. That's so frustating!
    Another problem is the lack of maps n the game. You are going to play the same maps a ton of times until you get bored and move to another game. Dude, look at the graphics of this game and how simple the maps are. What is the difficulty to make more maps? A game like this needs at least 50 maps to play. And why in the hell they dont make a way to the community create maps?
    I only give this game 5 because has potential, but by now is really not worth to buy    … Expand
  12. Solowdos
    Aug 27, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There can only be One

    60 start only 1 can be have the crown. Addicting and Fun....MXC meets Bright Jellybeans. Five fast pace rounds, where if you get eliminated (which most of the time you will!) You can just jump into the next show. You can play with friends (up to 3 others) and see who can outlast!

    This game is not meant to be taken too serious, enjoy!    … Expand
  13. TylerHurtado
    Aug 27, 2020
    10
    Me encanta el juego es mil veces mejor que la basura del Fortnite es arte y los xboners joderos no tendréis este juego
  14. KullatKhan
    Aug 27, 2020
    6
    El juego es ridículamente divertido por su estética, sus retos y su competencia, sin dudas es muy atractivo el ir mejorando tus habilidades a medida que lo juegas, se puede y se nota lo que puedes ir progresando, sin embargo, no deja de ser un juego simple y repetitivo en donde el interés erradica más en el progreso de tus habilidades que en lo complejo de este y el de la competencia, PorEl juego es ridículamente divertido por su estética, sus retos y su competencia, sin dudas es muy atractivo el ir mejorando tus habilidades a medida que lo juegas, se puede y se nota lo que puedes ir progresando, sin embargo, no deja de ser un juego simple y repetitivo en donde el interés erradica más en el progreso de tus habilidades que en lo complejo de este y el de la competencia, Por lo tanto, Fall Guys: Ultimate knockout se vuelve un juego para todos, ligero, divertido y muy apropiado para compartir y disfrutar en grupos y en solitario.… Expand
  15. Lawndart1981
    Aug 29, 2020
    8
    Simple to learn but difficult to master. Chaotic and fun yet frustrating all at once. This is the perfect non-shooter battle royale style game complete with a casual party game feel
  16. Julio987
    Oct 14, 2020
    9
    Muy buen juego lo unico malo los servidores pero por lo demas es mu buen juego
  17. ivanivanovski
    Sep 1, 2020
    7
    Good bit of fun, and surprisingly addictive.

    However, it feels like this game was made in about 2 weeks. At this point I've had 10+ game-breaking instances, where it becomes unresponsive (usually in the menus) and the game needs to be re-launched.

    Fall Guys has great potential, but if it doesn't fix the core problems, I can see people dropping off quickly.
  18. respawning
    Aug 30, 2020
    8
    good game overall but something that you should add and will (probably) be really good is the fact you could change the buttons so (for example) for ps4 you could make dive right stick or left on the d-pad etc and same with all the controls i think that would be a good feature and i would certainly like it
  19. GeekFusion
    Aug 31, 2020
    9
    The fun is in the falling.

    Falls Guys is a cute compact game that is endlessly fun and interesting every single time you go into a show. The premise of the game is that all 60 of you are contestants on a game show called Fall Guys, and by playing randomly picked mini games you have to qualify for the next round by being in the percentage of players it says will qualify. If not, you are    The fun is in the falling.

    Falls Guys is a cute compact game that is endlessly fun and interesting every single time you go into a show. The premise of the game is that all 60 of you are contestants on a game show called Fall Guys, and by playing randomly picked mini games you have to qualify for the next round by being in the percentage of players it says will qualify. If not, you are eliminated. This is an amazing new take on a battle royale and is clearly becoming a hit with the players as for PS Plus members, like myself, it comes free but on steam reportedly over 2 million players have bought the game.

    The game is designed for short quick and delightful, with a wide variety of mini games ranging in skill level and annoy-ability. The most annoying game are by far the team games. It is clear why they have integrated them, to stop people being able to win all the time, but it is severely frustrating when you are trying your best and still get eliminated because the rest of your team are really bad. However the rest of the mini games are fast and furious and highly entertaining, a lot require luck more then any skill which makes replaying it a lot easier as you never really find fault it what you’ve done it is just so chaotic that it happened.

    The Fall Guys themselves are one of the cutest inventions in video games they, make some of the weirdest noises when you start playing the game but the more and more you play the more they grow on you, the ease with which you level up is also a good incentive to keep playing. Even though I did feel at some stages some of the cosmetics were so hard to get enough money for in the time-frame they were in the store. I felt as if they could potentially scale either the price of the costumes or the amount of money you are given each game.

    This next point as also only an issue for me only the few days after it launched on Playstation and appears to have been sorted now, however many times when I would go very far into the show usually to the crown I would be told my ‘reward’s could not be found’ and then rebooted to the title age again, however this server issue appears to have been fixed recent so it should no longer be an issue.

    Also I want to highlight the music in this game, it is incredible it is one of those soundtracks to a game where you are always excited to here it again. Especially the menu music before you go into a game, it’s a little bit sad that that song isn’t in the actual levels of the game but the songs that are there are still extremely good.

    Overall this game, is incredibly fun endlessly enjoyable and even though the levels may get repetitive and boring at some point, I know I’m going to be putting in a lot of hours before that thought enters my head.

    Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout: 9/10    … Expand
  20. Snorlax880
    Sep 1, 2020
    7
    Great fun with friends, not so fun if you are by yourself or an average joe and cant win an end game. Will imagine itll morph into fortnite with various seasons and will lose interest soon.
  21. cobberd
    Sep 2, 2020
    1
    At first this game really grabs you, I was up until 3am the night I installed. After a few hours the flaws start to become glaring:
    -Input lag
    -Very poor game mechanics, my character falls down all the time for no reason, tails mechanics suck, etc. -It's a solo game, but includes team-based matches = EPIC FAIL! -Soundtrack becomes terribly annoying really fast. -The biggest one for me    At first this game really grabs you, I was up until 3am the night I installed. After a few hours the flaws start to become glaring:
    -Input lag
    -Very poor game mechanics, my character falls down all the time for no reason, tails mechanics suck, etc.
    -It's a solo game, but includes team-based matches = EPIC FAIL!
    -Soundtrack becomes terribly annoying really fast.
    -The biggest one for me though, is it gets terribly repetitive. I've played Dizzy Heights, Door Dash, See Saw, Jump Club, and Roll Out 20 to 30 times each; however, I've only seen rounds like Tail Tag and Hexagon 2 or 3 times, and I haven't played egg scramble or rock and roll a single time.

    My biggest suggestion would be to fix the round distribution so it's more balanced.

    As long as it's free on PS Plus, give it a try it's good for 3-4 hours of fun before the negatives really kick in.

    DO NOT SPEND YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY ON THIS GAME!!!    … Expand
  22. LL66
    Sep 3, 2020
    4
    I really can't play more than 15 minutes on this game. It's ok if you play a couple of matches with your friends, but more than that I can't comprehend.
    The controls are irresponsive, the graphics are non existing, the levels are repetitive and it really gives the feeling of a mobile free to play game ported to console
  23. GamingMendicant
    Sep 3, 2020
    2
    This is a definite no right now, with 54 hours played, I have 15 crowns (wins) and I'm level 40. The cheating has to stop. If you buy this game you will play against cheaters that can fly, run at 300% your speed, and never fall over. The Devs do not care. They only care about protecting their image of this game.
  24. kuroisora
    Sep 3, 2020
    2
    This game is literally disgusting. I played lots of matches on stream today and there were lots of cheaters in every game, rocking their 10 win skins. I have an idea for in game report system.

    At least they should grab players' Steam ID's or whatever they have depending on the platform (NOT the usernames.) and use it to make a report system that we can use while still in-game. This game    This game is literally disgusting. I played lots of matches on stream today and there were lots of cheaters in every game, rocking their 10 win skins. I have an idea for in game report system.

    At least they should grab players' Steam ID's or whatever they have depending on the platform (NOT the usernames.) and use it to make a report system that we can use while still in-game. This game is not fun since there are 2-3 people in every match who qualifies as soon as the game starts.

    I really don't believe that their anti-cheat system is working well. I will be refunding my game since I really don't think they are doing any good by just thinking about how to solve this problem. They're even telling us to stop posting about cheaters just because they're afraid of their game's fame.    … Expand
  25. poopvape
    Sep 3, 2020
    7
    It’s a fun party game to play with your friends online. Only reason I gave it a 7 is because of connectivity issues. Seems to me there is a problem with getting disconnected, and it’s not just me.
  26. Horcsch
    Sep 3, 2020
    1
    The game is fun with friends and has a lot of potential. Unfortunately it gets ruined by cheaters and incompetent devs. They have no idea how to handle the hacker situation. To make things worse they are shadowbanning legit players and don't give you a chance to appeal the ban.
  27. Ducklan
    Sep 4, 2020
    8
    This game is just simply fun. It's a game where you can shut off your brain, relax and still have it be competitive. It's easy to to learn, but difficult to master. It's a perfect game for a child and just as fun even if you're an adult. During these trying times, I don't think there could of been a more perfect gem in the mix.
  28. Jewboy1993
    Sep 6, 2020
    3
    Personally for me, games based heavily upon luck and internet connection quality are usually all the same....boring.

    Fun for a few weeks and whilst your winning but annoying when you lose, fall guys got me more stressed than dark souls.
  29. Fallen_angel_19
    Sep 6, 2020
    5
    fallguy1177 on dlives stream was hacking there are alot of hackers on this game you need to do something about this
  30. Elite_Soldier
    Nov 21, 2020
    5
    A pretty average game, its good to play with friends to have some casual fun.
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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 52 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 52
  3. Negative: 1 out of 52
  1. LaPS4
    Nov 9, 2020
    72
    Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a game that bets on simplicity and entertainment, with very good sensations and awaiting tweaks that enhance it even more.
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  2. CD-Action
    Oct 15, 2020
    80
    Sixty funny characters crammed together on a small area, competing with each other, while avoiding various traps and causing all sorts of unpredictable, amusing situations – what’s not to like here? The rules are simple and the entry threshold is low, so pretty much anyone can pick up Fall Guys and instantly have fun. [10/2020, p.60]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Oct 7, 2020
    100
    Fall Guys is an extremely addictive and accessible fun for the entire family. It is hilarious even when you are losing terribly, which makes it the biggest hit of the summer and possibly also the winter ahead of us. [Issue#306]
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