A Fall Guys clone called Stumble Guys is making hundreds of thousands dollars a day

A Finnish game developer launched a clone of the popular game Fall Guys and it is making hundreds of thousands of dollars a day.

Stumble Guys is a near-clone of Fall Guys, the world-famous PC and console game that took the world by storm early in the pandemic. Its one advantage is it’s available on mobile, where Fall Guys is yet to launch.

These sorts of extremely obvious rip-offs are very common in mobile games, as reported by GLHF editor Kirk McKeand recently.

They range from making no money at all to exactly what’s happened here – they hit the top of the charts and the natural power of the humungous gaming audience takes them the rest of the way.

Stumble Guys is a multiplayer knockout game.

Since launch, according to Appmagic data reported by mobilegamer.biz, it’s made $US21.5 million ($A40 million) from 163 million downloads.

That’s not including the 30 per cent cut taken by Apple and Google, as usual, as well as any third-party stores.

It’s the number one free game on the iOS app store in the US and UK right now, and 7th and 8th respectively on Android.

The release went the same as these games usually do, coming out a few weeks after Fall Guys – just enough time to create a prototype – and going global a few months later.

Heavy download spikes hit at the end of 2021, which MobileGamer attribute to user acquisition spending.

As seen in this trailer, their inspirations are as subtle as the name implies:

Revenue spiked hard in April and has grown steadily ever since, now making about $US300,000 ($A445,000) a day.

Decent spending money.

— written by GLHF