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Party Animals

Recreate Games · Source Technology · 2023-09-20

SteamPlayStation StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Sep 20, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 20, 2023 (Xbox One), Sep 20, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jan 23, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?

1,572
playing now
80%
positive of 79k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50
twitch viewers (latest)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (51 ratings)
5h
to beat · rushed 17h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

1,572 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Party Animals is a multiplayer physics-based brawler/party video game developed by Recreate Games and published by Source Technology. The game was released for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on September 20, 2023. A PlayStation 5 port was released on January 23, 2025.

Trailer

Party Animals trailer thumbnail

Party Animals 2023 Official Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,572 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5,900 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~738/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6M–3.5M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 78,724 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.00 at GreenManGaming (2024-09-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 12 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9.0k9.0k20232026Week of 2023-09-01: 8,977 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4,913 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 5,025 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,608 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5,756 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 561 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2,212 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 523 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1,492 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 295 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,256 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 232 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,040 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 150 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 957 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 720 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 148 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 772 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 103 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,060 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 750 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,338 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 223 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,569 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 254 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,377 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,069 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 97 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 960 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 164 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 851 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 675 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 399 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 599 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 766 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 542 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 758 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 931 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 256 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,541 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 671 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 615 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 505 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 417 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 382 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,467 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 513 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 52 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7.9k02026-08-06 21:00 — 1,677 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 3,232 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 6,925 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 1,865 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 3,682 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 6,853 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 1,890 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 3,997 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 7,327 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 1,845 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 3,258 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 7,573 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 1,653 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 3,189 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 7,918 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 1,641 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 3,134 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 6,286 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 2,370 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 2,647 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 4,074 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 2,634 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 2,269 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 3,644 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 1,682 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 3,443 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 4,367 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 1,572 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$9.002023-08-232026-08-262023-08-23 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-02-15 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-04-25 — best price $19.992024-06-10 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-07-29 — best price $19.992024-08-05 — best price $13.992024-09-17 — best price $13.992024-09-26 — best price $9.402024-10-04 — best price $19.992024-11-01 — best price $13.992024-11-16 — best price $19.992024-11-22 — best price $13.992024-12-03 — best price $13.992024-12-11 — best price $13.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-01-20 — best price $13.992025-02-07 — best price $19.992025-02-25 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-03-21 — best price $13.992025-04-14 — best price $13.992025-06-05 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-18 — best price $19.992025-09-27 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-10-14 — best price $13.992025-11-10 — best price $11.992025-11-21 — best price $13.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-20 — best price $11.992026-02-24 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-29 — best price $13.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-08-26 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

662632026-05-29 — 119 pageviews2026-06-01 — 74 pageviews2026-06-04 — 100 pageviews2026-06-07 — 109 pageviews2026-06-10 — 75 pageviews2026-06-13 — 126 pageviews2026-06-16 — 91 pageviews2026-06-19 — 74 pageviews2026-06-22 — 76 pageviews2026-06-25 — 92 pageviews2026-06-28 — 107 pageviews2026-07-01 — 83 pageviews2026-07-04 — 119 pageviews2026-07-07 — 122 pageviews2026-07-10 — 116 pageviews2026-07-13 — 89 pageviews2026-07-16 — 120 pageviews2026-07-19 — 93 pageviews2026-07-22 — 103 pageviews2026-07-25 — 116 pageviews2026-07-28 — 662 pageviews2026-07-31 — 206 pageviews2026-08-03 — 102 pageviews2026-08-06 — 126 pageviews2026-08-09 — 103 pageviews2026-08-12 — 104 pageviews2026-08-15 — 95 pageviews2026-08-18 — 79 pageviews2026-08-21 — 71 pageviews2026-08-24 — 76 pageviews2026-08-26 — 81 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

85362026-08-26 19:15 — 32 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 154 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 107 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 24 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 51 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 73 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 60 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 65 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 57 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 93 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 55 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 43 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 36 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 132 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 75 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 377 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 853 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 37 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 26 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 40 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 29 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 65 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 140 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 95 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 106 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 42 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 123 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 50 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
63.4%
earned "Welcome To The Party"
12%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform Multiplayer1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)37,9260%116
Steam (Steam)23,4330%116
Xbox 360 (Xbox)19,5839%50
PS5 (PlayStation)3,4751%28

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

PvPCuteCo-opFunnyPartyActionCasualPhysicsFightingParty Game

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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