Human Fall Flat

Mild overall intensity
Party/CasualPlatformerPuzzle

What's in it

Nothing in the game itself we'd flag.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatChat with strangersUser-created content

What it is

Human: Fall Flat is a light-hearted physics-based puzzle platformer where you control Bob, a wobbly, customizable humanlike figure, guiding him through floating dreamlike levels by grabbing, climbing, and manipulating objects to solve open-ended puzzles. The humor comes entirely from the deliberately floppy, slapstick physics — Bob flails, stumbles, and tumbles off ledges. It can be played solo or online with up to eight players, and much of the comedy comes from clumsily cooperating (or launching each other into the abyss) with others. There is no combat, blood, mature language, or suggestive material; the physics ragdolling is purely comedic, not injury or gore. The main content consideration is the online multiplayer, which connects players with strangers over voice and text chat, plus community-made custom levels.

How it's framed

The game frames itself purely as goofy, low-stakes fun. Falls and collisions are played for laughs through exaggerated ragdoll physics rather than presented as harm, and there is no in-game reward for aggression, no scoring of behavior, and no darker subject matter beneath the comedy.

Details

Developer
No Brakes Games
Publisher
Curve Games
Released
Jul 22, 2016
Metacritic 70critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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