Fall Guys banishes cheaters to their own island

When Fall Guys burst onto the scene in 2020 on the back of a free launch as a PlayStation Plus game, it was the multiplayer hotness for a bit. But when you have an influx of players joining your big game, you will naturally have to deal with cheaters. Mediatonic’s response to this was to create what it called “Cheater Island.” This was a map specifically made for players caught using cheat software or hardware, and while it was otherwise the same as any other Fall Guys stage, playing against others using cheats meant the advantages they granted didn’t give you much of an edge, if any.

However, cheaters eventually figured out what was going on because they were having trouble finding matches, and correctly assumed they were somehow shadowbanned for cheating. They eventually found a workaround to avoid this fate by match-making with friends. So while sending cheaters to cheater jail had been fun for a moment, Mediatonic eventually just blocked cheaters from logging into the game entirely.