Abstergo’s Challenge brings Assassin’s Creed-themed items to Fall Guys. Players can unlock them by playing Sweet Thieves and completing challenges.
The latest Fall Guys crossover event has arrived, bringing with it more cosmetics inspired by Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise. Named after the sinister and antagonistic megacorporation from the Assassin’s Creed games, the Abstergo’s Challenge limited-time event allows players to complete challenges in Fall Guys’ unique Sweet Thieves game mode in exchange for special cosmetics for their jellybeans to wear. With Fall Guys going free-to-play and rather belatedly arriving on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles, the game’s developers at Mediatonic have already run a few events during the game’s rebooted Season 1 to give new players some cosmetics to wear.
Fall Guys was immensely popular when it first launched in 2020, offering players a different take on the battle royale genre. Up to 60 players can compete against each other in a series of mini-games inspired by game shows such as Wipeout and Takeshi’s Castle, with fewer and fewer players qualifying past each round until only one jellybean is left victorious. As a result, players can find themselves running through gauntlet-style race rounds, engaging in team sports, and trying to survive a barrage of obstacles while running down the clock in order to survive. In addition, the game has a long history of adding special cosmetics based on well-known video game heroes, with Halo‘s Master Chief joining Fall Guys, following on the heels of other gaming icons such as Among Us’ bean-shaped astronauts, Ratchet and Clank, and Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn.
Some Assassin’s Creed-themed items have already made it into Fall Guys, with the game’s premium season pass featuring the Assassin Ezio as a costume and a Leap of Faith victory celebration. In addition, Odin and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla protagonist Eivor are both available in the Fall Guys store, but sadly all of these items require the player to pay to unlock them. However, the Abstergo’s Challenge event is free for all players and has a few cosmetics Assassin’s Creed fans might want to get their hands on.
Unlike some previous Fall Guys limited-time events, the challenges included in the Abstergo’s Challenge event can only be completed in Fall Guys’ special Sweet Thieves game mode. Sweet Thieves splits 12 players into two teams: Guardians and Thieves, with the Guardians defending stockpiles of candy and trying to catch the Thieves, whose objective is to steal pieces of candy and drop them into holes. In addition, thieves can turn invisible by moving slowly, making this a fitting game mode for an Assassin’s Creed-themed event. Abstergo’s Challenge features ten challenges:
Much like previous events such as Fall Guys‘ Ratchet and Clank crossover, Abstergo’s Challenge is somewhat difficult to complete, even though the event runs until July 11th. The Challenge to win ten games of Sweet Thieves is sure to frustrate a few players, as is the requirement to play as a Thief three times, given that the player is assigned to a team at random. Each completed Challenge gives the player 100 points, with cosmetics available at regular intervals:
Unfortunately, the player has to complete all ten challenges to get the 1000 points needed for the Apple of Eden Costume. Luckily, players can still get free cosmetics for Fall Guys via Prime Gaming, assuming they have Amazon Prime, and other great costumes are also available for purchase using the game’s Kudos currency.
Fall Guys is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and Nintendo Switch.
Tim is a freelance game guides writer for Screen Rant based in the UK. His love of video games began with Pokémon FireRed on a purple Game Boy Advance and hasn’t yet stopped some twenty years later despite him graduating with a degree in law in 2018 and a second degree in psychology in 2021. His experience includes writing reviews and features on everything from triple A titles to indie games on a blog he shared with friends, turning a lifelong hobby into work he actually enjoys. These days, you can usually find Tim writing, either working on guides for Screen Rant or on his own novel that’s perpetually unfinished. Tim also regularly works as a volunteer mental health support case worker in London. When he’s not working, he spends an inordinate amount of time playing Stardew Valley and Minecraft or trying in vain not to give up again on whatever Soulslike game happens to be trending.
