Everybody loves a good party, but throwing one is easier said than done. There’s a lot to consider. The guests have a range of tastes and expectations. What’s fun and familiar to some might be new and challenging to others. Party games are no different. We all want to have a good time when we play video games together, but how do you make something for everybody? That’s easy. You break out the weird little beans.
Fall Guys launched on August 4, 2020. Mediatonic’s physics-drunk party royale looked like a TV obstacle course stuffed into a gumball machine, then set loose online. But beneath the wobble and whimsy of its little bean men was a sharp idea: what if the battle royale trend traded guns and grim tension for slapstick momentum, bright costumes, and the kind of rules even a spectator could grasp in seconds?
