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Stumble Guys is a game developed and published by Kikta Games on the 12th of february, 2021 for Microsoft Windows, IOS and Android. It is currently free on Steam, Play Store and App Store, but it does contain microtransactions.

Why It Stumbles

 * 1) It is an obvious rip-off of Fall Guys, since it shares the same concept of being a racing platformer Battle Royale where you have to avoid tv show-like obstacles with ragdoll physics, has similar mechanics and art style and even the level themes coincide.
 * 2) The gameplay gets boring fast because the physics make a poor job at recreating the ragdoll controls in Fall Guys, and almost feel like they belong in a more traditional platformer, which on top of having a simple moveset is not the greatest thing in the world, to say the least.
 * 3) *Not to mention it is very hard to get back walking once you do a long jump.
 * 4) *The previously said flaw causes the level Jungle Roll to be almost unplayable if you decided to make a long jump.
 * 5) The level design is painfully bland.
 * 6) *They unsurprisingly copy the stage themes from Fall Guys and sometimes feel like they directly Ctrl-V'd said stages.
 * 7) *There is a major lack of alternate routes or shortcuts, despite being a game about racing other players.
 * 8) *The platforming is tremendously monotonous and feels like it's repeated over and over in the layout.
 * 9) *The rounds are way too quick and short, only lasting a few seconds.
 * 10) The graphics look pretty awful in general.
 * 11) *The textures are mostly composed of flat colors, the lighting is basic at best, everything looks low poly and the water looks remarkably terrible because it's just a flat sprite.
 * 12) The music is very generic, and the same track with an already poor loop repeats over and over in every stage (despite being kind of catchy), it gets annoying in less than 5 minutes.
 * 13) *On the other hand, the menu music is incredibly boring to listen to and sounds even more generic.
 * 14) The shows are not exciting, since they are too short and they don't end in epic ways (unlike Fall Guys, since it usually ends with Hexagony), you will probably not even realize when you're on the last round.
 * 15) The animation looks downright unfinished and is notoriously lazy compared to its original Fall Guys counterpart.
 * 16) The art-style, while inoffensive, is quite bad.
 * 17) *The UI looks like a terrible Brawl Stars rip-off, even the logo does.
 * 18) *The characters don't look like beans but instead generic (though cute) cartoonized human models.
 * 19) *The color palette doesn't have that funky turquoisish feel from Fall Guys, here, it looks too bright.
 * 20) This title, while understandably a mobile game, lacks content in comparison to what it's trying to copy, since it only has one show and no special events that are nearly as interesting as Fall Guys.
 * 21) There are ads on top of having microtransactions.
 * 22) *One of them is already greedy since this is a bootleg game, but both is awfully shameless.
 * 23) The optimization isn't quite the best either.
 * 24) There are barely any sound effects at all, which makes the game come off unfinished, despite being a released product, and one that was released more than a year and a half ago at that.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It is sort of an alternative if you don't have a platform where Fall Guys is playable.
 * 2) *It's still much more accurate to its respective original game than other bootlegs.
 * 3) The game does understand the ridiculous nature of Fall Guys, despite the art-style being bad.
 * 4) *The character models, while simple, are cute too.
 * 5) The controls, while unfun, are at least responsive and don't feel too clunky.
 * 6) *Asigning the long jump to pressing the normal jump in the air was a good idea.
 * 7) Water Slide is an interesting level where you make use of aquatic park-like physics.
 * 8) The main theme, while repetitive and generic, is kind of catchy.