10 Great Video Games Everybody Just Stopped Playing

Fall Guys was nothing if not a video game that came at just the right time, the fiendishly addictive battle royale title releasing in August 2020, during the height of the pandemic.

With players worldwide confined to their homes, Fall Guys soared to a peak player count of 172,213 on Steam within days of release, ensuring it was a far greater success than developer Mediatonic could've ever imagined.

Yet this also meant that Mediatonic evidently didn't have a prepared strategy for retaining such a huge player-base, and so, with players growing tired of the existing map rotation, the player count plummeted within a matter of months.

Three months after launch, Fall Guys was down to 23,148 concurrent players, having lost over 86% of its launch peak, and though the game enjoyed a brief spike of interest when it went free-to-play in June 2022, three months later the numbers were back to their previous levels.

As a response to this, Mediatonic reduced the player count per match from 60 to 40, in an attempt to cut down on wait times.

At present the game is barely floating above 2,000 concurrent players and slowly declining, making it likely that the number will dip to below 1,000 before the end of the year.

Given that Fall Guys inherently needs a large player base to accommodate its highly populous matches, without some major changes it seems inevitable that the party game's days are sadly numbered.