Reviews from

in the past


Mike Vick’s Game of the Year without a doubt.

Gang Beasts but it's fun for more than 10 minutes.

Look I already have Gang Beasts and I get why in some ways this is better, having the menu INSTANTLY plead with me to buy extra cosmetics and battle pass nonsense as soon as I get it is absolutely the first step in making me want to turn off and never pick it up again.

Demorou pra sair? Demorou. Foram 2 anos de espera pra lançaram? Foi. Mas é mais um game divertido se juntar com amigos. Infelizmente ele tem uma estrutura de F2P de skins bizarra e o seu preço não é muito convidativo para um party game.

Tem gamepass? Da uma chance que tenho certeza que terá horas de risos, senão espera mais um tempo que certamente ele se torna Free.

Easily animal combat game of the year


this might just be the best fighting game this year

O tanto que eu ri jogando isso não está escrito

Jogo é legalzinho, mas é bem do lagado.

it's ok. just play gang beasts instead.

Petit jeu tout mignon mais aussi débile et très technique pour coller des pieds-bouches avec des animaux sur 2 pattes qui se castagnent comme dans Power Stone.
Ça fait le taff pour des soirées entre potes.

After my 3 hours playing Party Animals drop kicking your pals off the map and boomerangin headtops still hasn't got old.

Iceberg stage brings back great memories of Polar Panic on Crash Bash PS1.

was fun at one point, really only good if free

In the battle of The Chad broken ass, bare bones, freeform jazz rough & tough Gang Beasts VS The Cowardly gorgeous looking, mostly playable, limiting (in comparison) Party Animals I will always choose/champion the (former) multiplayer party game with no tutorial, zero rules and in-game purchases (and budget), and that doesn't play itself for you. This game is still very fun though and a good alternative option for those who struggle with/have yet to master the former. Somewhere in a combination of these two games is a perfect physics based multiplayer game for me. As soon as I acquire the Garfat character I will change my score to a 5/5.

Update (9/25):
I'm bringing this down a star because while I am having a lot of fun with it the controls are so annoyingly sluggish that it's really unacceptable it was released like this.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I LOVE ANIMALS
fuck ori

Pretty adorable if you like dumb fun, but I myself don't tend to care much for games that almost require me to have friends to play with, so I don't think it'll have much shelf life for me.

10/10 for the corgi, though. Very boopable snoot.

super fun but i'm worried about the longevity. 20$ then the skins are more expensive than that? i'm guessing it'll do what fall guys did & go free to play later..

party animals traz uma experiência única e adoravelmente nova para o mundo dos lutadores multijogador online. embora não seja inovador, o jogo definitivamente traz uma fórmula inteligente de sua própria criação, feita com amor e incrivelmente divertida de jogar. uma diversão caótica com muitas risadas em meio a vários socos e nocautes enquanto você é um ganso, gato, cachorro e até mesmo tubarão. definitivamente é uma festa que vira um enterro e tem animais.

Great multiplayer game that has never failed to be fun. Weird economy on the edges of this game, but it is truly ignorable.

Watching cute little animals clock each other at full speed is one of the most enjoyable things in life

I am acutely aware that the game is apparently not a great online experience and is strife with micro-transactions.
However I have friends and I can sit on the couch and hear them scream when I smack them into the void with a shovel. So this game is peak.


Plenty of fun physics mayhem, but i wish i had more local control to just play with friends, and the whole store/progression system just wasnt for me without the amount of time id be willing to invest in something that should just be quick fun.

Controlling the characters is frustrating but fun mini party games.

Steam Verification: Playable

Party Animals does work however for some the text on the screen may be too small to read. For me however I could read just fine on my Steam Deck.

The frame rate is a bit slow but with some setting adjustments or a plugin like CryoUltilities will fix that easily!

I say try it out.

I may return to this sometime in the future, but for now, I do not see myself continuing to play Party Animals. An easy sell on its surface, Party Animals is a further evolution of the Gang Beasts party game formula with several caveats attached. Play control, round structure, and visual design are all a step above Gang Beasts and games that share similar genres. Adopting cute, fuzzy animals as the visual motif is equally adorable and hilarious, yet the way you unlock them is anything but.

Party Animals has the gall to implement a gacha system tied up with real-money payments, obfuscated with Monopoly-money transfer rates. Party Animals goes out of its way to slowly onboard the gacha mechanics, only giving you your first token around a few rounds; you have to get properly invested first. Upon entering the Gashapon machine's lair, you're prompted with either a single pull for free or a ten-pull for a token... plus around ten dollars of real cash money. Obviously, when purchasing ten dollars of silly bucks, you have a small amount left over after your gacha pull, starting a negative monetary feedback loop like so many other games these days.

These sorts of scams are unacceptable as they are, but they're been relegated to the free-to-play market for a good while. Implementing Gachapon and a rotating, Fortnite-esque storefront on top of your Gachapon and asking for a $20 up-front fee with a "Deluxe Edition" upgrade path kills any further fun I can have with it. Playing something like this on Game Pass is one thing, but asking my friends to get sucked into this money-grubbing hell just to do a silly ragdoll physics feels like I'm crossing ethical boundaries. Party Animals needs to either significantly gut its in-game monetization and/or go entirely free-to-play if I ever care to return.