Fall Guys is a platform battle royale game developed by Mediatonic Limited. The game involves up to 60 players who control “jellybean-like creatures” that compete against each other in a series of randomly selected mini-games, such as obstacle courses or tag.
Mediatonic Limited is a British video game developer based in London. The company was founded in September 2005 by Brunel University students Dave Bailey and Paul Croft. Mediatonic released their first game Snowman Salvage in December of that year.
Mediatonic’s popular title Fall Guys was initially released as a premium platforming battle royale video game back in 2020 for PlayStation 4 and PC. Despite the limited platforms, the title was initially successful and Epic Games eventually purchased developer Mediatonic’s parent company, Tonic Games Group, back in March 2021.
Fall Guys officially became a free-to-play video game as of June 21st, 2022, and launched on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox platforms, and PC via the Epic Games Store. Fall Guys developer Mediatonic just announced on Twitter that the game hit 20 million players in the first 48 hours of it going “free-to-play” on the Epic Games Store.
