Fall Guys went free to play (opens in new tab) final week, a change that additionally noticed it depart Steam and grow to be an Epic Video games Retailer unique. Regardless of that change in storefronts, the Fall Guys participant rely on Steam noticed an enormous spike too—practically 5 instances as many concurrent gamers at its peak as within the earlier month. Unsurprisingly, it is also doing fairly effectively on Epic, which set a brand new document for energetic gamers on June 21, the day Fall Guys went free.
“An enormous week for Fall Guys with greater than 2x their earlier PC CCU document, contributing to a document variety of energetic gamers for the shop final Tuesday,” Epic tweeted. “Thanks to all the brand new beans! All the time stumbling, by no means not stumbling.”
An enormous week for @FallGuysGame with greater than 2x their earlier PC CCU document, contributing to a document variety of energetic gamers for the shop final Tuesday 🎉Thanks to all the brand new beans! All the time stumbling, by no means not stumbling. https://t.co/71DClYRKEiJune 25, 2022
Epic clarified that the “document variety of energetic gamers” refers back to the cumulative variety of energetic gamers on the storefront over the course of the day, and that Fall Guys “strongly” contributed to the whole.
Participant numbers for particular person video games on the Epic Retailer aren’t available, however happily they’re on Steam, which permits us to attract some cheap conclusions. In accordance with Steamcharts (opens in new tab), the all-time peak concurrent participant rely for Fall Guys on Steam is 172,026, which conservatively places the whole quantity at 350,000 on Tuesday. It is unattainable to say whether or not or not that features gamers on Steam, however both means it is awfully wholesome.
Talking of which, Fall Guys is continuous to bang on Steam too, regardless of not being obtainable for buy there, attaining a peak concurrent participant rely of greater than 56,500 at this time. Mediatonic mentioned that every one informed, Fall Guys racked up 20 million whole gamers over the primary two days after going free to play.
That form of sudden uptick in gamers is certain to result in a number of challenges, and Mediatonic continues to be rolling out updates to deal with the brand new load. The most recent, which went out earlier at this time, makes the next adjustments:
🔧Fastened some graphical corruptions on respawn VFX🔧Fastened challenge with controller inputs not persistently being recorded after the bind button pop-up seems🔧Fastened challenge inflicting different participant’s Beans animations to grow to be caught throughout gameplayJune 27, 2022
- PS5 Gamers will now have the ability to get into video games while in a Social gathering! wooooooooo!
- Groups will not spawn in the identical place on Crew Rounds
- Fastened visible challenge with Spawn FX on Nintendo Swap
- Fastened visible challenge with Lilypad results on Nintendo Swap
- Fastened buttons not engaged on Main Gentle
- Fastened some static intro cameras
- Fastened challenge with Airtime and Candy Thieves intro cams not following the supposed path
- Fastened some invisible tiles loading in on Hex-a-Gone
- Fastened bug which brought on Social gathering members to remain in queue, regardless of a brand new participant becoming a member of the occasion
- Fastened challenge which brought on a freeze when altering controller throughout bindings
- Fastened visible challenge when grabbing on a turntable
- Fastened grabbed Beans not following the motion of cell platforms
- Fastened padlock not being faraway from Season Go as soon as purchased
- Fastened some graphical corruptions on respawn VFX
- Fastened challenge with controller inputs not persistently being recorded after the bind button pop-up seems
- Fastened challenge inflicting different participant’s Beans animations to grow to be caught throughout gameplay
- Fastened bug which prevented gamers from listening to occasion members in Voice Chat
Sadly, Mediatonic needed to disable the Day by day Retailer whereas it really works on some persistent points, however mentioned it ought to be again on-line ASAP.
