Fall Guys sells 7 million copies on Steam and becomes most downloaded PS Plus game ever – The Verge

Fall People total world domination continues as Sony on Wednesday morning announced the video game has actually become the most downloaded PlayStation Plus title of all time.

Sony made a comparable handle Psyonixs Rocket League in 2015. That was another savvy find for the developer relations folks at PlayStation, considering Rocket League swelled into a huge financial success, a legitimate esport, and eventually a cross-play pioneer that Fortnite maker Epic Games acquired in 2015.

The silly and playful fight royale platformer, launched earlier this month by UK studio Mediatonic, has actually had about as effective of a launch as an indie video game can get, blasting to the top of the Steam charts on PC and enjoying what seems like an extraordinary number of downloads on Sonys PlayStation 4, where its offered free of charge. The video games official Twitter account has more than 1.2 million fans, and the game has been a consistent on the Twitch viewership charts. According to publisher Devolver Digital, the game has actually sold more than 7 million copies on PC.

Sony will not divulge just the number of copies of the video game have actually been downloaded, as that seems private info that may be beneficial to competitors. But Sony made a clever relocation when it protected a deal with Mediatonic to make the video game a complimentary PS Plus title at launch, which implies anybody who spends for Sonys yearly subscription service (usually costing about $60 a year) can download the game at no expense through completion of August.