{"id":126031,"date":"2022-06-25T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-133601"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:30:00","slug":"fall-guys-free-to-play-reaches-20-million-players-in-the-first-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/25\/fall-guys-free-to-play-reaches-20-million-players-in-the-first-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Guys Free-To-Play Reaches 20 Million Players In The First 48 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/76dff9ef31df5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/76dff9ef31df5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/76dff9ef31df5\/fall-guys-switch.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Fall Guys Switch\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fall_guys\">Fall Guys<\/a> <em>finally<\/em> stumbled onto the Nintendo Switch, Xbox and other platforms this week as a free-to-play title and it seems it&#8217;s already paying off for developer Mediatonic. According to the game&#8217;s official social media account, Fall Guys&#8217; free release managed to hit 20 million players in just 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the announcement on Twitter:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MASSIVE THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE STUMBLED<\/p>\n<p>We reached an incredible 20 million players in the first 48 hours of Free For All! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;see you this weekend my beans! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uCUN8Kx5wt\">pic.twitter.com\/uCUN8Kx5wt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Fall Guys&#8230; FREE FOR ALL! \ud83d\udc51 (@FallGuysGame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FallGuysGame\/status\/1540711411629707265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While the launch was a successful one, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/fall-guys-suffers-from-server-issues-after-free-to-play-switch-launch\">some teething issues<\/a> along the way &#8211; with reports of server problems. Fortunately, these issues were resolved relatively quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Fall Guys now also includes full cross-platform multiplayer and full cross-play support. Here&#8217;s a sample of our review:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;the Switch version offers a solid way to play if you&#8217;re looking for some barmy 60-bean battling and the barrier to entry has never been lower.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/fall-guys\"><strong>REVIEW<\/strong> <strong>Fall Guys &#8211; The World\u2019s Most Chaotic Game Show Lands On Switch, Now F2P<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"Y-hxeECd2do\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Were you one of the 20 million players who tried out Fall Guys when it went free-to-play earlier this week? <em>Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Guys finally stumbled onto the Nintendo Switch, Xbox and other platforms this week as a free-to-play title and it seems it&#8217;s already paying off for developer Mediatonic. According to the game&#8217;s official social media account, Fall Guys&#8217; free release managed to hit 20 million players in just 48 hours. Here&#8217;s the announcement on Twitter: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}