Congrats to Mediatonic and Devolver -- Fall Guys takes the Players' Choice crown for August, as voted by PS Blog readers
Congratulations, Mediatonic and Devolver! Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout grabbed the crown for August’s Players’ Choice poll, handily outpacing runners up Spiritfarer, Mortal Shell, and Manifold Garden. Did you pick up Fall Guys while it was free for PS Plus members? Have you nabbed a crown of your own, yet?
We’ve already seen a bundle of excellent new releases in September, but the month has only just begun. What do you think you’ll be voting for in the next poll?
Welcome back! September has arrived, which means it’s time to look back and celebrate the excellent new releases we saw in August — and crown one as the month’s best new game.
The polls below are now live, and we’ll keep them open until Sunday night at 11:59pm Pacific (or Monday morning at 7:59am BST), so get those votes in before then. Feel like going to bat for your selection? Hit the comments and tell us why you voted for your pick!
How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. Soon thereafter, we’ll close the polls, tally your votes, and announce the winner at PlayStation.Blog. PlayStation Store will also showcase some top Players’ Choice winners throughout the year.
What is the voting criteria? That’s up to you! If you were only able to recommend one new release to a friend that month, which would it be? In keeping with our long tradition in the Game of the Year Awards, remastered or re-released games won’t qualify. Ambitious, larger-scale rebuilds and remakes like Shadow of the Colossus and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will.
How are nominees decided? The PlayStation.Blog and PlayStation Store editorial teams will gather a list of that month’s most noteworthy releases and use it to seed the poll. Write-in votes will be accepted.
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I voted Mortal Shell, but Sony has killed it with these day 1 PS+ co op sensations such as Rocket League and Fall Guys.
Ppl claimed that XB was the place for multiplayer/online games yet PS4 has made great calls with Gang Beasts, Rocket League, Fall Guys, and being the home of Call of Duty and Fortnite. Microsoft made a great call with Pubg but Sony had H1Z1, Planetside, and Warface day 1. In reality, PlayStation took that multiplayer mantle. Say what u want about Azure and dedicated servers, but PlayStation is where the players and games are. Final Fantasy 14 as well.
Warframe day 1*
It’s Fall Guys but I voted for Captain Tsubasa, baby! B)
Fall guys is the best game in August
Fall Guys GOTY.
fall guys is not the best of august and is not game of the year lmaooo
I vote ps4 and ps5 exclusives ports on pc
At least have a single trophy if you want to troll.
Fall guys is the best but where is ghost of Tsushima???
Ghost of Tsushima won last month
Best and most played are different IMO, tho I’d still be happy for Fall Guys but I voted for Manifold Garden!
It’s definitely Fall Guys
Fall Guys for the win!
Sony is cheating on its fans that it was with it in the difficult times of the PS3, now it only thinks about profits and even betrays its console, its biggest fans are furious, Sony is lying and will pay for it, a betrayed fan becomes one enemy forever.
Stop prostituting your games by taking them to the PC, it will kill the PlayStation.
No offense, but you’re delirious if you think porting a three year old game to PC is a betrayal. There is nothing wrong with expanding their base especially if they prioritize their console gamers first.
If anything, releasing a three year old port of one of their best exclusives to a new market right before releasing its console-exclusive sequel is only going to add to the sony base. Here’s a taste of what we make; if you want more you’ll have to buy a ps5!
I have been a playstation fan since ps1. I have spent enough on games, consoles, and peripherals that I would consider myself a pretty big fan. I completely disagree with you. Until the day comes that PS Exclusive comes to PC before Playstation, I have no issues with games going to PC. All it will do is make Sony more money to invest in more content for players. Also, spreading great games to other platforms so other players can expierence them is great.
They are using “expanding user” as an excuse
The greed is reason & it can destroy everything they build from decades.
And the people who saying it give them more money to invest in more content
That is absolutely false strategy
Look at Nintendo they are doing will
Every game they made it solds more than 20m copy and still selling will not matter how old they get. and people buy their platform just to play them
The problem is with sony games all r more of the same and boring doesn’t attract people to buy them
PC FOREVER CONSOLES NEVER
But in all seriousness I want ps exclusives to come to pc so I won’t have to buy a ps5 and I can play with better graphics and frames Sony is making the right choice
Wow bro that was so funny you got the whole squad laughing
I’m as big a Sony fan as there is and i believe it could help sell Forbidden West on PS5 in 2021. Smart move as long as Forbidden West is a PS5 exclusive.
You are so misguided, if u want to be angry at Sony take it up with MLB The Show. That is the bigger issue.We lose nothing with HZD on pc years later, but The Show turning full multiplat is devastating. We just gave a yearly exclusive to our biggest competitor. MLB The Show is the issue, not HZD.
Omg you’re still whining about this on every article? Dude you’ve been doing this for I don’t even know how many months. Has a single person cared yet? Stop being so pathetic. It’s embarrassing.
Fall guys is cool
All of them are trash
PC and Nintendo switch are only gaming device who worth my money
Cinema-Station is pointless
and yet here you are on the blog. go play pc and switch then.
Then why are you on the blog then?
You literally have another comment on this same page saying you want PlayStation exclusives on PC, so clearly you do want their content.
Let me take a wild guess here, the PC is your family computer and Switch is the only console you could get mom to buy you? LOL
Bingo.
fast_fabulous0 is a child or young teen who plays on his family pc when allowed and the only system his parents would buy him is a Switch Lite.
So now he’s angry and jealous with PS4/PS4 owners, hence having no trophies BECAUSE HE SIMPLY MADE THIS PROFILE ON HIS PHONE. Pathetic child.
Fall guys is a really good game
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Remastered Edition
It’s going to be Fall Guys but Spiritfarer and Manifold Garden deserve it too.
sucks to be any game that isn’t Fall Guys…
The Last Campfire is the best game this month, if not the most played.
Yeah it got my vote. Won’t win though
It was a good month and good games were released. I voted Hyper Scape for because it was innovative and interesting.
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Going with Fall Guys because it’s the only one I’ve played. I purchased Manifest Garden and can’t wait to play it, but haven’t given it a go yet. I want Spiritfarer, especially since it has local co-op, but am holding off for now. So Fall Guys it is due not playing the others yet.
I like Fall guys but absolutely love the last campfire so voted for that. It’s not got a chance of winning though
Fallguys
How can you have a Bias vote when one of the games was free to Plus subscribers? The only way to have a fair vote is to have the same access to all the games for everyone. If one is free they should all be.
Eh, you could argue that every one is biased based on the fact that people will vote for what they’ve bought.
That said, to me Player’s Choice isn’t so much a critical “what game is best” but rather, what game are the players playing?
And, while sure it was free… Fall Guys has taken off for other reasons as well and there is something to say for that. It just as easily could have been a new game free on PS+ that nobody played or talked about.
While I’m sure many people won’t feel the same way, I’m actually really enjoying Hyper Scape!
… but still, my vote needs to go to Fall Guys. It’s just one of those games, and deserves the vote!
Fall Guys
Voted for Peaky Blinders. Fall Guys doesn’t need my vote.
Descending Lads for me
Fall guys is the best game in August
Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time was the best. It’s the perfect ending for a legendary series.
dis goes to Fall guys & Descending good gm
How can I vote for Wasteland 3?
Wondering this myself. They kinda left it off the list.
Many people are expecting an event on the 9th of September celebrating 25 years of PlayStation.
I hope there’s a major event revealing the price of the PS5 and have Pre-order available.
Fall guys
I’ve already deleted Fall Guys, Spiritfarer is the best game of the month.
I only brought up Fall Guys, because I know it’s going to win.
Agreed. One of the most important games of the year, frankly.
Fall Guys is BEST
Mortal Shell
Fall guys .
Fall Guys is a great game that anyone (who can hold a controller) can play, my wife, my kids and I enjoy playing this game.
Fall guys for life
lol people will have moved on to the next fad game and forgotten about fall guys before the end of the year
Claro que o vencedor vai ser Fall Guys! Ninguém quer deixar umas jujubas fofinhas de 1,83 m de altura chateadas, não é mesmo? Não é mesmo?!
Spiritfarer is one of the most important games of the year, but it’ll go to Fall Guys, undoubtedly
Captain Tsubasa tá lindo demais!
Fall Guys
I really enjoyed samurai jack frfr💯
Fall Guys. It’s just different from other battle royal games.
We know who is winning 😂😂PD: Add me
fall guys duh
Manifold Garden beats the angry beans game.
Fall guys ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Fall guys no doubt
ayo when gta 6 coming?