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Stumble Guys

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Spending — real-money purchases

What's in it

Spending real-money purchases
High

Microtransactions offer cosmetic skins and a rotating prize wheel with randomized rewards sold using real currency.

Spending pressure pay-to-win or energy gating
High

Costumes and gameplay powers are sold for real money in a store that rotates its stock and dispenses randomized rewards through a spinning wheel.

Gambling simulated gambling
Moderate

A prize wheel with randomized rewards (including paid keys) is included in the Crown Rank system, resembling gambling.

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Players knock each other out of obstacle courses using harmless physics-based 'bumping' with no blood or injury depiction.

Language mild
Low

The game itself contains no strong language, though its open text and voice chat with strangers can carry mild profanity.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatChat with strangersDirect messagesStranger friend requestsOff-platform contactReal-money spending

What it is

Stumble Guys is a no-cost, high-speed elimination contest where as many as 60 competitors dash through colorful, cartoonish courses, and play continues until a single winner is left standing. Mechanics stay basic — competitors sprint, leap, and shove rivals off platforms through physics-driven collisions. Nothing bloody or gory appears, and no weapons exist; the on-screen contact is cartoonish and causes no realistic injury. Fresh avatars, costumes, and powers become available by finishing tasks in the game or by paying actual money in a Crown Shop that changes its stock and dispenses random rewards via a spinning wheel. Communication features cover spoken and typed chat with people the player doesn't know, one-on-one messages, requests to add friends, and matchmaking that links players on many kinds of hardware.

How it's framed

Content is positioned as breezy, contest-style fun carrying no lasting stakes, and eliminating rivals reads as fulfilling the goal instead of an act of aggression. On the spending side, chance-based purchases are dressed up through a spinning-wheel format that mirrors gambling and may generate a push toward buying more.

Details

Developer
Scopely
Publisher
Scopely
Released
Oct 7, 2021

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