Perfect Match is one of the levels in Fall Guys. It is a LOGIC level and was first introduced in the beta version.
Course description[]
Standard version[]
Perfect match consists of 16 square tiles displayed in a 4x4 grid. It alternates between 3 rounds of tile memorisation and 3 rounds of finding a safe tile. The game chooses out of 6 fruits (apple, banana, cherry, grape, orange, watermelon) and randomly determines the pattern across a 4-by-4 platform of tiles.
Tiles will flash on and off for 14 seconds showing what fruit they correspond to. Following that, after a short wait, the safe fruit is displayed on the large displays and players are given 5 (displayed as 4) seconds to move to a safe fruit.
The first round will usually have a selection of 2 fruit; the second round will usually have a selection of 4 fruit; the third and final round usually utilises all 6 fruit. The survivors of the third round qualify for the next round.
In total, all these rounds combined makes this round have a duration of 1:20.
Course changes[]
As of the Season 2 (Legacy) update :
- Tiles may look more lucid.
- There are now four large displays instead of three.
- The Intro camera now passes through one of the panels before framing the players.
- When wrong tiles dissolve, their white edges are shown for a bunch of seconds, causing a better animation.
As of the Season 3 (Legacy) update :
- The spawn points are re-positioned to better accommodate the alternate version.
As of the Season 3.5 (Legacy) mid-season update :
- The large display on the side with the fruit cannons is removed for all variations.
Alternate version[]
Starting from Season 2 (Legacy)'s mid-season update, this variant may appear:
- A large Rotating Beam appears in the center, constantly spinning and adding difficulty to the game.
- The difficulty of this variant has led it to be christened 'Perfect Deathmatch' by the Fall Guys Official Tik Tok.[1]
Starting from Season 3 (Legacy)'s mid-season update, these variants may appear:
- Fruit may be shot onto the course.
- A Pegwin may appear in the center.
Starting from Season 2, these variants may appear:
- There may be a Trolley Bot that will initially spawn at the center, with a Bumper Block on top.
- Instead of fruit tiles, there might be tiles with space objects (such as planets, stars, rockets, etc) to memorize.
Squads Show[]
As normal Perfect Match would not eliminate many players, the variant selected in Squads Show is always Perfect Deathmatch.
Bots[]
Perfect Match was one of the few rounds that can be selected should the lobby be filled with bots (which were introduced in the UI Update). The variant selected is always normal Perfect Match.
As of Season 6 (Legacy), this round can no longer be selected with bots.
Course strategy[]
Standard version[]
It's worth noting that you do not need to memorise the whole platform; just remember the locations of one safe tile for each fruit that are preferably adjacent to each other (whether laterally or diagonally). Be warned that sometimes the tiles can get very crowded, so to minimise the chances of falling off, grab and hold on to another player. A handy trick is that once a fruit appears on the large screens, it will NOT appear again on them, so you'll only have to memorize three fruits instead of five on the third challenge. This seems to no longer be the case and the same fruit may be chosen twice in a row.
However, some people will take advantage of grabs and either shove unsuspecting newbies off the map prior to the game starting, or shove them off a platform with lots of players.
Additionally, players can take advantage of crowds, simply running to them so they do not need to memorize the fruits. This can backfire as some trollish players will intentionally go to the wrong tiles and form a crowd, then dump them all off the map at the same time.
Try not to head to a tile that is too crowded; desync can potentially cause your bean to be shoved off the map. If you have no choice but to remain on a crowded tile, try to jump over everyone else to position yourself in the centre-most of the tile. If you know that multiple safe tiles are next to each other, you can stand in the gap in-between them with impunity to avoid the desync pushing.
Alternate versions[]
Perfect Deathmatch[]
Good luck. This version ramps up the difficulty significantly; you not only have to watch for any griefers, you also have to watch for the spinning beam and the fruit tiles, all at the same time.
To cheese it, attempt to bounce on the center of the rotating beam, but it is very likely that other players will attempt the same strategy.
Additionally, the corners of the map are safe from the rotating beam, so you can stay there while you memorize the fruit. Be especially wary of griefers if you use this strategy, since you can be easily pushed off if you're not careful.
Desync is also potentially a huge killer here, as beans that are knocked by the beams can be flung into you, knocking you off despite you being apparently safe. Try to position yourself out of their way.
Fruit Cannons[]
This variant is not as bad as it seems. Memorize the fruit on the tiles while try the ignore the distracting, incoming fruit shot from the cannons.
Pegwin[]
You know what to do. YEET THE PEGWIN! Or save him.
Known Bugs[]
- All The Same Tiles*
- As of 2 February 2021: Inexplicably, every tile may bug out and flash the same fruit(watermelon). At this point it becomes an actual guessing game as to which tiles are the safe ones, as they are not actually all the same fruit.
- Stuck Fruit*
- As of unknown date: Sometimes when fruit cannons are active, Fruits may go in tiles when they are falling. This mostly happens with Bananas.
- The Safe Corner Tile*
- As of 15 September 2022: Bizarrely, the lowest left corner tile (as seen from the intro camera sequence) is always correct. This is easily exploitable by either waiting on that tile, or noting the object displayed on that tile and then note the other safe tiles to stand on.
- This bug has been fixed with the release of Season 3.
- Invisible Tiles*
- As of 7 March 2023: The Perfect Deathmatch variant will have invisible tiles that players can stand on for the whole duration of the round. No fruit tiles appear in the screen either.
- Respawn*
- As of unknown date: If players fall off the course too far, they will not be eliminated and respawn back to the course. This issue will more appear in the perfect deathmatch variant as the standard variants are impossible to do this.
*This name is a conjectural name and has not been somewhat uniformly agreed upon.
Medal thresholds[]
- Gold - Qualified
- No medal - Eliminated
History[]
Released in Beta
| History of Perfect Match | ||
|---|---|---|
| Season | Status | Map Theme |
| Beta | Active | Standard |
| Season 1 (Legacy) | Active | Standard |
| Season 2 (Legacy) | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Season 3 (Legacy) | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Season 4 (Legacy) | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Season 5 (Legacy) | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Season 6 (Legacy) | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Season 1 | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Season 2 | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Season 3 | Vaulted | Vaulted from all shows. As of 7 March 2023, available exclusively in The Vault show in Custom Show |
| Season 4 | Vaulted | Vaulted from all shows, available exclusively in The Vault show in Custom Show |
| Summer Breeze Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Fall Force Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Tool Up Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Power Party Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Shapes and Stickers Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Survival Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Fall Forever Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions. Was not available in any core game up until 29 May 2024 when Classic Games were introduced |
| June '24 Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| July '24 Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions available only in Classic Games |
| Scrapyard Stumble Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions available only in Classic Games |
| Falloween 2024 Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions available only in Classic Games |
| November '24 Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions |
| Winter Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions available only in Classic Games |
| Fall and Fantasy Update | Active | Standard and alternate versions available only in Classic Games |
Trivia[]
- In extremely rare cases, it is possible to win a Show on this level in Solo-based games. This is difficult on normal Perfect Match, typically requiring all but one player somehow moving to the wrong tile, but is more common on the Perfect Deathmatch variant due to the difficulty of that variant.
- The winner would still have to survive for the entire 1:20 duration. Simply being the last one alive is not enough.
- Funnily enough, the large display removed with the Season 3.5 (Legacy) update was the same display added with the Season 2 (Legacy) update.
- Prior to the Season 5.Fun update on 31 August 2021, Perfect Match was the only round belonging to the Logic category. Consequently, the Logic category was the only category to have only one type of round.
- According to Designer Joe Walsh, Perfect Match's poor player reception is the reason development on more Logic type rounds has been halted, though he suggested this may no longer be the case.[2]
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | 完美配对 (Wánměi pèiduì) |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 完美配對 (Wánměi pèiduì) |
| French | Les Deux Font la Paire |
| German | Perfektes Paar |
| Italian | Coppia Perfetta |
| Japanese | パーフェクトマッチ (Pāfekuto Matchi) |
| Korean | 같은 그림 찾기 (Gat-eun Geurim Chatgi) |
| Polish | Para Jak Ta Lala |
| Portuguese | Combinação Perfeita |
| Russian | Идеальное Совпадение (Ideal'noye Sovpadeniye) |
| Spanish | Parejas Perfectas |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Parejas Perfectas |
Gallery[]
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Original splash image (used until launch of Season 1) -
Variant with the beam -
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Promotional artwork for Season 5 (Legacy)
See also[]
- Shape Up, another level that involves jumping between 16 tiles to survive.
- Sum Fruit, the successor of this level.
