Fall Guys release for Switch and Xbox delayed and game gets cross-play

The release of battle royale platformer Fall Guys for Xbox and Switch has been delayed. The developer says it needs more time for the ports and does not give a new release date. The maker also reports that the game will get cross-play.

“We realized that our previously announced summer release is just too early for these platforms, so we won’t be able to get all the features we’re working on in the game,” developer Mediatonic said on its website. They are working on a port for the Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and S.

The game will get cross-play in the future. That is not yet the case at all: the PS4 and Windows versions of the game have their own player pools that are not shared with each other. Mediatonic does not explicitly state which platforms cross-play will work between. It just says that ‘when we add new platforms, players can still tumble in tune with their buddies, regardless of their platform choice’.

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a platform game and battle royale in one. Up to sixty players must fight their way through all kinds of obstacle courses and mini-games, where they do not have to fall off the level and there is the possibility to oppose or collaborate with others. The latter provides an early alliance, because there is no voice or text chat in the game.