Fall Guys pushes the Epic Games Store to a new record player count
Epic says Fall Guys more than doubled its previous concurrent player record last week.
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Fall Guys wentfree to playlast week, a change that also saw it leave Steam and become an Epic Games Store exclusive. Despite that change in storefronts, the Fall Guys player count on Steam saw a huge spike too—nearly five times as many concurrent players at its peak as in the previous month. Unsurprisingly, it’s also doing pretty well on Epic, which set a new record for active players on June 21, the day Fall Guys went free.
“A huge week for Fall Guys with more than 2x their previous PC CCU record, contributing to a record number of active players for the store last Tuesday,” Epic tweeted. “Thank you to all the new beans! Always stumbling, never not stumbling.”
A huge week for @FallGuysGame with more than 2x their previous PC CCU record, contributing to a record number of active players for the store last Tuesday 🎉Thank you to all the new beans! Always stumbling, never not stumbling. https://t.co/71DClYRKEiJune 25, 2022
Epic clarified that the “record number of active players” refers to the cumulative number of active players on the storefront over the course of the day, and that Fall Guys “strongly” contributed to the total.
Player numbers for individual games on the Epic Store aren’t readily available, but fortunately they are on Steam, which enables us to draw some reasonable conclusions. According toSteamcharts, the all-time peak concurrent player count for Fall Guys on Steam is 172,026, which conservatively puts the total number at 350,000 on Tuesday. It’s impossible to say whether or not that includes players on Steam, but either way it’s awfully healthy.
Speaking of which, Fall Guys is continuing to bang on Steam too, despite not being available for purchase there, achieving a peak concurrent player count of more than 56,500 today. Mediatonic said that all told, Fall Guys racked up 20 million total players over the first two days after going free to play.
That sort of sudden uptick in players is bound to bring about a few challenges, and Mediatonic is still rolling out updates to handle the new load. The latest, which went out earlier today, makes the following changes:
🔧Fixed some graphical corruptions on respawn VFX🔧Fixed issue with controller inputs not consistently being recorded after the bind button pop-up appears🔧Fixed issue causing other player’s Beans animations to become stuck during gameplayJune 27, 2022
Unfortunately, Mediatonic had to disable the Daily Store while it works on some persistent issues, but said it should be back online ASAP.
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