The Fall Guys have arrived, and it turns out they're super popular. Medatonic's lighthearted mashup of physical game shows and battle royale launched today on Steam and PlayStation 4, and has already hit 120,000 concurrent users across both platforms.
"Just spoke to my friends in the server team and we have at least 120k people connected to the game right now," someone on the Mediatonic team tweeted on the official Fall Guys account shortly after launch. "We're currently BEEFING up our servers to cope with all of the BEANS who want to fall." According to SteamDB, Steam accounted for as many as 56,032 of those players.
Good news, certainly: Fall Guys is an elimination contest that begins with 60 players (rather than the traditional hundred), and a healthy player count means shorter queue times for matches. If our time with the beta taught us anything, it's that getting knocked out of Fall Guys happens a lot - but you'll generally want to rush right back in and try again.
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