Fall Guys

Fall Guys occupies an unusual spot in this library: it's a Very Positive-rated, genuinely beloved 2020 phenomenon that you currently cannot buy on Steam at all. That fact alone shapes almost everything worth understanding about its reviews, and it's worth explaining clearly before getting into what reviewers actually think of the gameplay itself.

What made it a phenomenon

The pitch was simple and it worked: up to dozens of jellybean-shaped players race, dodge and stumble through absurd physics-based obstacle courses until only one remains. Reviewers from the game's 2020 launch window describe pure, uncomplicated joy — one of the most-upvoted positive reviews in the game's history simply describes the specific delight of watching a hugged player stare back for five seconds before jumping off the map. That sense of chaotic, physical comedy is a real design achievement, and it's largely intact in the current build; reviewers across every year credit the core gameplay loop as still genuinely fun.

The controversy that hasn't faded

Here's what makes this Steam page unusual, and it's not old news: in 2021, Epic Games acquired Mediatonic, and in June 2022 pulled Fall Guys from sale on Steam entirely, converting it to free-to-play with a new cosmetic-microtransaction economy. This isn't a distant, resolved event in the review history — it's the dominant subject of negative reviews from 2022 all the way through 2026, with recent reviews using almost identical language to reviews written years earlier. "Epic Games had to ruin everything. Removed the game from Steam, made it free and added microtransactions," reads one of the most-upvoted negative reviews on the game, with 1,283 votes; a review from May 2026 — four years after the acquisition — makes essentially the same complaint: "Another game I paid for turned into a free to play microtransaction riddled nightmare." Reviewers describe specific losses: purchased skins that used to be earnable through play now locked behind a shop, crowns that once meant something now largely cosmetic, and progression that some say simply vanished in the transition. Several separately resent being redirected to the Epic Games launcher to keep playing a game they originally bought on Steam.

This is worth stating plainly: recent English sentiment sits at 79% positive, a real seven-plus points below the lifetime score, which is exactly the pattern you'd expect from a grievance that's staying current rather than fading into history. Unlike some post-acquisition controversies that cool off after the initial backlash, this one appears to be sustained by every new wave of players discovering the same story for the first time.

A caveat on this review's sourcing

Because the game is no longer sold on Steam, this review reflects a specific and somewhat unusual population: existing owners revisiting or reviewing a purchase from years ago, rather than a typical mix of recent buyers. That's an important context for reading both the negative reviews above and the positive ones — many of the most-upvoted positive reviews are also from 2020-2021, closer to launch, before the acquisition reshaped the game's economy.

Reading the completion data

With 34 achievements, the completion curve reflects broad, casual engagement typical of a party game — most milestones tied to simply finishing rounds or trying different game modes sit at healthy completion rates, without the steep late-game drop-off seen in more grind-heavy genres, consistent with a game designed for short, social sessions rather than long-term systems mastery.

6 out of 10. Fall Guys earns real, lasting credit for a genuinely inventive, still-fun core design that made it a defining multiplayer phenomenon in 2020. The score sits well below what that design alone deserves because of a real, sustained, and still-current grievance: original paying customers describe a 2022 conversion to free-to-play that cost them purchased content and progression, delisted the game from the storefront where they bought it, and continues to draw specific, detailed anger in reviews written this year. If you already own it, the gameplay is worth revisiting on its own merits — just go in aware of what changed and why so many long-term reviewers are still upset about it.