Audacious cell phone clone is a huge success – developers raked in millions

Artwork of the Stumble Guys mobile clone game.

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Fall Guys has numerous fans, especially since it was released as a free-to-play game. But a brazen clone is now tapping into the game’s success.

London – Fall Guys launched as a free-to-play game on Xbox and Nintendo Switch in late June. The game is not only popular on Twitch and YouTube, but also reached many new players through its new free model. This enormous success of the simple and fun game concept has not escaped the attention of the Kitka Games team. The developer, who has focused on mobile games, put their own Fall Guys clone in the app stores without further ado.

name of the game Fall Guys
Release (date of first publication) August 4, 2020
Publishers EpicGames
series Fall Guys
platforms Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, Windows (PC)
developer Mediatonic
genre Battle Royale, Jump’n’Run

Fall Guys vs. Stumble Guys: Cheeky Clone Makes Cash Registers Ring

What is Stumble Guys? The game called Stumble Guys, which mobile developer Kitka Games has brought to smartphones, looks confusingly similar to its original at first glance. The menus, the gameplay, the colorful levels and the chubby characters with their little black beady eyes leave no doubt about the template: This game here is Fall Guys. However, under a false flag. Stumble Guys has actually been available in the app stores since January 2021, but the clone game only recently really took off.

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How much do the developers earn from the clone? According to the website MobileGame.biz, the developers of Stumble Guys made over $20 million from the Fall Guys clone, with $6.6 million last June alone. Apparently, the free-to-play launch of Fall Guys on consoles also helped Stumble Guys gain massive popularity. The game is said to have been downloaded more than 163 million times in the app stores. Kitka Games has apparently taken advantage of the fact that Fall Guys has not yet been officially implemented on mobile devices.

Fall Guys: Naughty Cell Phone Clone Brings Developer Millions © Kitka Games

Fall Guys: Clone games like Stumble Guys are not uncommon

Google and Apple app stores are often full of clone games that are based on popular and well-known brands and stay in the stores for a long time. The business seems lucrative, especially when you look at the recent Stumble Guys figures.

It remains to be seen whether Stumble Guys will remain in the app stores permanently, but legal action against such clone titles seems complicated. At least there is no other way to explain why publisher Epic lets millions of potential players and a lot of money slip through their fingers on the mobile market and Stumble Guys has been earning a share of the success of Fall Guys for over a year. With its move to the free-to-play model, Fall Guys reached over 50 million new Fall Guys players and is therefore more popular than ever. The rush was so great that the title had to struggle with server problems with player search in Fall Guys at times.

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