The Party Animals are waiting for you to help you emerge victorious from the podium in the turbulent physics battle.
It’s wild, it’s physics-based and cute little animals with an aggression problem fight it out in a variety of environments – in a rabid, clumsy way: Party Animals has been released on Steam and people should be loud about it the list of the most anticipated games almost half a million players are happy.
What is Party Animals?
Half of the explanation is in the title, it’s a party game. So it’s about providing casual entertainment with a pinch of competition as simply as possible. Genre pioneers like Mario Party Superstars are well-known examples here.
What do players do in Party Animals? You compete against each other in arenas in the skin of an animal of your choice. Your opponents are the other animals and the physics engine. Because every action has consequences and so all opponents quickly find themselves in wild, funny chaos.
Varied environments that offer a variety of dangers for you or options for eliminating opponents as well as equipment ensure fun. Even picking up items can become an exhilarating challenge, because as I said: Physics controls everything.
If you want to know more, it’s best to take a look at the test from our GameStar party expert Dennis.
And if you just want to see an example of gameplay to get an audio-visual impression of the animal chaos, watch the following video. Afterwards you will know what you are getting into with your friends or family.
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Party Animals: The GameStar cow makes short work of it
What’s in the party package for the release?
For around 18 euros you get the following:
- Three game modes
- Team Deathmatch: Self-explanatory, teams hit each other, whoever collects the most points wins.
- Arcade: Depending on the map, there are different challenges for the teams to overcome apart from the fights. Whoever keeps their lives the longest wins.
- Load status: The last person still alive wins.
- 20 different cardstwo for arcade mode
- 200 cosmetic items, but be careful: In-game shop with option to purchase with real money!
- Crossplay between PC and Xbox
Are there bots? If you don’t want to or can’t play with other people online or locally, then bots offer their services, yes. But these are not the brightest. Although you can fight your way confidently through the arenas, you are often overwhelmed by the many unique map mechanics.
Warning: There is no anti-cheat system. So please don’t take defeats against strangers too seriously, there will probably be cheaters.
And? Are you going to play Party Animals or have you and your friends been looking forward to the crazy physics of the crazy animals for a long time? Are party games generally your thing or just a few specific ones, like Party Animals? Feel free to write it to us in the comments!
