Epic Games has discussed the future of Fall Guys, following today's announcement that its gameplay assets, animations and characters will be coming to Fortnite's UEFN creative mode.
Players will be able to create and play their own custom Fall Guys levels in Fortnite starting in May, Epic Games announced today during its State of Unreal presentation. Meanwhile, Lego and Rocket Racing game assets arrive on UEFN today.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Epic Games executive vice president Saxs Persson said the addition of Fall Guys characters and gameplay to Fortnite will benefit players due to the nature of it being accessible from Fortnite, where millions already play. That being said, the original Fall Guys game will also continue.
Fall Guys Free for All: Live Action Trailer“If we started Fall Guys development today, we would do it within Fortnite,” Persson said, when asked if Fall Guys development would ever exist solely within Fortnite. “But we are where we are, we have nothing to announce at this time.
“You learn different things when you're apart, but we really believe that the magic of Fortnite is having fun in a game with your friends, so the more players there are, the more content there is, the more fun you will have. So, by simple measure, we “It benefits having everything in one place.”
Persson pointed to the release of Lego Fortnite, Psyonix's Rocket Racing, and Harmonix's Fortnite Festival in December last year as an example of this, where “the sampling rate is extremely high because it's so easy to jump around.”
An Epic Games spokesperson later confirmed that the company would continue to support Fall Guys as a standalone title.
Fall Guys was first released to great acclaim in 2020 for PC and PlayStation 4, developed by British studio Mediatonic. Epic Games bought Mediatonic the following year. In 2022, versions of Fall Guys arrived for Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, as the game became free and registered 50 million players in two weeks.
Last fall's layoffs by Epic Games reportedly hit Mediatonic hard, although work on Fall Guys remained a priority for the company, Epic told Eurogamer at the time.
