Pudgy Party, a Fall Guys-style mobile battle royale from the Pudgy Penguins brand, is shutting down less than a year after launch.
The Pudgy Party team said in a June 15 post on X that it made the decision to wind down Pudgy Party and halt further development,” less than a year after its debut.
The game let players race, stumble and survive through obstacle courses as penguin characters, with multiplayer knockout rounds similar to Fall Guys and Stumble Guys, royale video games built around chaotic races.
Pudgy Party launched globally on the Apple App Store and Google Play in 2025. The team said it reached No. 1 on the App Store, built a large daily player community and even passed 1 million downloads.
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Pudgy Penguins Shifts to Pudgy World
The shutdown wasn’t framed as a failed launch as the team said Pudgy World, its web-based Pudgy Penguins experience, is on track to pass Pudgy Party’s milestones and has stronger scalability and room to bring users into the full Pudgy Penguins universe. The team said:
“Pudgy World continues to grow rapidly, delivers one of the most fun and novel web experiences out there, and being wholly ours, has everything we need to make it the flagship gaming product of the Pudgy Penguins universe.”
Pudgy Penguins, the NFT brand known for turning its penguin characters into toys, games and consumer products, has spent the past few years trying to push beyond crypto-native collectors.
But for now, Pudgy Party’s early download success seemingly wasn’t enough to keep development going. The team said it is “going all-in on Pudgy World” as the main gaming entry point into the Pudgy Penguins story.
Despite the news, Pudgy Penguins’ PENGU token price soared 6% to $0.007, per CoinGecko.
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