Party Animals

Party Animals is a physics-based fighting and party game from Recreate Games. Dogs, cats, rabbits and other animal characters fight each other in arenas. The movements are deliberately wild and unpredictable: whoever brawls at the edge of a platform can fall into the depths themselves.

The game offers fights against other players, team tasks and shared matches on one screen. Characters can grab, throw, hit and use objects as improvised weapons.

Party Animals released on Sep 20, 2023 for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. The PlayStation 5 version followed on Jan 23, 2025.

Party Animals is available for Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. The PC version is coming to Steam, among others. A standalone Nintendo Switch version is not part of these releases.

The PlayStation 5 version supports up to eight players online. It requires an internet connection and, for online matches, PlayStation Plus.

Instead of precise fighting-game combos, grabbing, shoving and throwing take center stage. The characters stagger, hold on to objects or try to fling opponents out of an arena. On the maps, moving vehicles, moving objects and other hazards change the fights.

Many matches come from short, easy-to-understand tasks. A single hit rarely decides everything: those who use the environment and work with others often have an advantage.

The Deluxe Edition bundles the base game with extra animal outfits, avatars and in-game currency. The Deluxe Pack is also available separately. It expands the range of cosmetic items but does not include a second base game.

Party Animals on Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) requires at least an Intel Core i5 processor or a comparable AMD CPU, 8 GB RAM, a GeForce GTX 750 Ti or Radeon RX 550 with 2 GB video memory, and 12 GB free storage. DirectX 11 and a broadband connection are required.

16 GB RAM and a GeForce GTX 1060, Radeon RX 580 or Intel Arc A380 are recommended.

Besides battles where the last surviving figure wins, there are team competitions with objectives. Depending on the map, teams may need to carry items, score goals or push the opposing side out of a contested zone.

The tasks differ clearly from free-for-all brawling but use the same physics. As a result, cooperative actions also remain deliberately hard to control.

Party Animals supports online matches and local players on a shared screen. On Steam, online PvP, online co-op, local multiplayer and crossplay matches are listed. This lets you get friends together across different supported systems.

On PlayStation 5, the game is designed specifically for an online connection. If you want to play online with friends there, you need PlayStation Plus. Local players can join on the same console, but an online connection is still required.

The fighters are animals with different looks but the same core principle: simple actions become hard to predict because of the physics-based controls. The game world deliberately focuses on short, easy-to-read animations and expressive characters.

Outfits and other cosmetic items change the look, not the basic rules of a fight.

Party Animals has German menus and on-screen text. On Steam, voice audio is limited to English, Chinese and Japanese. On PlayStation 5, the German interface as well as DualSense vibration and adaptive triggers are listed.