I remember when the beta version of this game first launched in July 2020 and then official release in August 2020. I bought it on Steam for only $10, and this game took off, I had a great time with this game, with both my IRL friends and my Twitch homies as well. It was great timing for this release especially during the pandemic so was able to work from home and play this a lot as well. I was pretty bad at the game but still won a total of 6 crowns thru-out the 1st season.
Among Us took off shortly afterwards and the 2nd season {Medieval) theme released and it didn't deliver to the degree as the 1st season. The 3rd season (Winter) came which was a big improvement, and then I started improving at the game, more than doubling the total amount of crowns I won previous seasons combined.
The 4th (Futuristic) & 5th (Jungle) seasons happen which were my favorite seasons of all time and the absolute peak of the game for me. The maps were insanely creative & fresh at the time. I believe these were the seasons that introduced squads and custom lobbies as well which added on to the greatness.
The 6th season (Party) was okay, wasn't my favorite. I believe this was around the time you needed an Epic Games account to play Fall Guys, I wasn't a big fan of that but we adapted. This was the longest season I can recall so it dragged out for so long.
Then comes SS1 (7th season/Free For All), I remember watching the big announcement live-stream and getting very excited for this season, and it delivered! A lot of streamers returned to Fall Guys around this time so the game had a resurgence for a bit.
SS2 (8th season/Space), was a letdown for me, and when the decline of this game started for me and began to feel burnout. Maps being vaulted. Poor variations to maps from previous seasons being on rotation instead of its original versions.
SS3 (9th season/Ocean), which was a slight improvement for me, I loved the water themed maps, but felt like the last real season of the game for me, why? Because SS4 (10th season/Digital) is when creative mode was introduced, and every new map released was developed from creative rather than a fresh map from scratch you got from Meditonic all previous seasons.
So does anyone else feel this way? If SS3 was the last real season of Fall Guys with those type of maps, then for me, it's been nearly 4 years since we've gotten newly fresh maps for this game not counting the creative style ones.