The first season of Beast Games, a reality competition show created by Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson was first released on Amazon Prime Video on December 19, 2024 and concluded on February 13, 2025.
Jeffrey Randall Allen won the season, defeating Twana Barnett. Allen won a total grand prize of $10,000,000.
Filming began with the first round, which was shot through July 18âÂÂ22, 2024, inside of Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, with a total of 2,000 contestants attending. This round is released on YouTube. The Beast City part of the competition that was featured in the first four, sixth, eighth and ninth episode of the TV series as well as a second YouTube video promoting the series featuring 20 eliminated contestants competing for $500,000, was filmed with the remaining 1,000 contestants at Downsview Park Studios in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in August of that year. The "Beast Island" part of the competition featured in the fourth to sixth episodes, along with the tenth episode of the show was filmed at the uninhabited La Vivienda Island, which is located in the Pearl Islands, Panama.
The filming broke 44 Guinness World Records, including the largest physical cash prize on set ($5,000,000), the most prize money turned down on a competitive reality TV show ($1,000,000), the largest prize fund awarded for a competitive reality TV show ($10,000,000), and the most money won in a single episode of a competitive reality TV show ($2,020,000), and a page in the 2026 Guinness Book of World Records was focused on the show.
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Season 1 of Beast Games was released on Amazon Prime Video between December 2024 and February 2025 as ten episodes, released weekly. It became Prime Video's most watched unscripted series ever and its second largest series debut of 2025, though it was received poorly by critics. Several contestants alleged they were mistreated during production, resulting in a lawsuit against Donaldson's company and several others.