Fall Guys

Fall Guys launched August 4, 2020, and StreamerHouse hit 397 viewers as Mediatonic's jellybean battle royale became the summer's pandemic phenomenon. The game reached 1.5 million players in 24 hours, sold 7 million Steam copies by late August, and became the most-downloaded PS Plus game of all time. Twitch exploded—Fall Guys ranked top 3 most-watched games with 113 million hours streamed and 700,000 peak viewership. PewDiePie and other mega-streamers amplified the chaos, and the colorful visuals plus goofy mini-games made it perfect pandemic comfort food. Metacritic showed "generally favorable" reviews praising chaotic gameplay and visual appeal, while comparisons to Among Us noted both games thrived during COVID lockdowns. Mediatonic and Devolver Digital's genius move was launching on PlayStation Plus—free access catapulted Fall Guys into cultural phenomenon territory. By November, 10 million Steam sales and $185 million first-month PC revenue made it the biggest PC launch since Overwatch. StreamerHouse riding the wave in 2020 caught gaming's rare viral moment—right place, right time, right vibe. Fall Guys proved that during lockdown, everyone needed to be stupid jellybeans failing at obstacle courses together.