Human: Fall Flat

A decade is a long time for a game to keep both its charm and an unresolved grievance intact. Human: Fall Flat has managed both: reviewers a full nine years apart are writing essentially the same two things — that the core game remains delightful, and that one specific platform decision from years ago has never been properly addressed.

The physics comedy that still lands

The premise hasn't changed since 2016: control a floppy, ragdoll-limbed human through physics-based puzzle levels, and let the deliberately imprecise controls turn every attempt into potential slapstick. Reviewers across the game's entire history credit this as genuinely, reliably funny — "you can throw your friend off of cliffs" reads one of the most-upvoted reviews, listed straightforwardly as a pro rather than a joke. What's more unusual is how well the developer support has held up: a 2025 review marvels that No Brakes Games is "still giving out free updates with new levels" nine years after launch, calling it "a labor of love" — a rare thing to say about a game this old, and a real point in the developer's favor.

The complaint that's lasted nearly as long as the game

Here's the thread that runs through this game's negative reviews with unusual consistency: Linux support. "Devs/Publisher pulled a really nasty move and silently removed Linux support," reads a 2019 review with 1,683 votes — one of the most-upvoted negative reviews the game has ever received. That specific complaint, worded almost identically, recurs in 2018, 2022, 2024, 2025, and a review from June 2026: "support for my platform (Linux) was silently dropped... I was never informed in-game." Reviewers describe a deprecated Linux client that locks players out of cross-platform multiplayer entirely, forcing anyone who wants to play with Windows or Mac friends to run the game through Proton instead of its native build. What makes this notable isn't just that the complaint exists — it's that it has persisted, largely unaddressed and unexplained by the developers according to these reviewers, across essentially the entire lifespan of the game. One reviewer went so far as to buy a cheap grey-market key specifically so they could leave a negative review documenting it, which is a strong signal of how strongly this specific grievance has been felt.

Reading the completion data

The achievement list is unusually large, reflecting years of accumulated free level content — early, foundational milestones sit between 68% and 92% completion, showing most buyers engage successfully with the core early game. The long tail of achievements tied to individual added levels drops to 0.1%, reflecting how much content has accumulated over a decade and how a relatively small share of the overall playerbase chases every single addition.

8 out of 10. Human: Fall Flat earns real, durable credit for a physics-comedy formula that's stayed funny for a decade and for genuinely rare, sustained free content support long after most games in this genre would have moved on. It's held back from the very top by a real, specific and unusually long-running complaint: Linux owners describe a broken promise from 2018 that's never been formally resolved, a persistent flaw in an otherwise well-loved, well-supported game. Buy it for a co-op night with friends — just verify current cross-platform compatibility first if you're on Linux.