Party games are extremely fun and easy to play. They are the perfect casual game to play with your friends when you just want to hang around and play.
These party games are easily accessible, and you can have your friends download and play them or even set up a local party session for other specific games on the list.
From fun trivia games to the wackiest fighting games, here are the best party games on Steam we have listed down for you with no particular order or ranking.
Gang Beasts
| Genre: | Action, Adventure, Casual |
| Developers: | Boneloaf, Coatsink |
| Release Date: | December 12, 2017 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | 2 hours |
At first glance, Gang Beasts seem like a cute multiplayer game that you can play with friends. You’ll be playing as colorful, squishy characters that get all wobbly when moving.
Imagine gelatin rubber-like characters running around maps because of the ragdoll physics. You can even choose your own costume by mixing and matching outfits and accessories for your character. Sounds adorable, right? But Gang Beasts is far from what it seems.
The game is not suitable for young audiences as it involves a lot of fighting, kicking, punching, and throwing people to their demise.
Your goal is to be the last one standing to win rounds. While playing the game, try to throw as many punches as you can at your opponents.
Knocking them out will make them defenseless and easy to eliminate. Remember that controlling your character will be difficult since your body moves in a very unpredictable way.
There are a lot of different maps in the game. Each map has elements that can help you eliminate your friends.
For example, there is a map in the game where you are on a subway platform. Trains pass by from time to time. What you can do is wait for the perfect time when the train is almost near the platform, then push your friend in.
You can have up to 8 players in one game, making it very chaotic and fun at the same time. Picture everyone trying to land punches on each other and failing every time. That would be so hilarious.
Pummel Party
| Genre: | Board Game, Action, Casual, |
| Developers: | Rebuilt Games |
| Release Date: | September 20, 2018 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | 7 hours |
Pummel Party can be played with up to 8 people. Its game style is that of a board game where you and your friends have to take turns in rolling the dice and moving in whichever direction you prefer.
The main goal of this game is to collect the goblets scattered around the map. Upon landing on the Trophy Tile, you will be asked to surrender 40 keys in exchange for a goblet.
You can also customize the number of goblets needed to win the game. If you want your game to be longer, you can put more into it so that competition will be tighter.
Let’s get to the fun part. After each round is finished, meaning all players have each taken their turns in rolling the dice, there are mini-games. The mini-games are randomized.
They are a series of games that test your speed, memory, and wits and boil down to how good you are.
The order in which you finish the mini-games is very important as this will be the sequence when you roll the dice in the next round. Aside from that, the top 3 finishers will each get an item that they can use to their advantage.
At the end of the game, everyone will attend the Pummel Awards, where the best of the best are awarded their own goblets.
These goblets are used to buy capes that can be equipped while in-game. The funniest thing about this game is that the loser gets jailed in the end while everyone else can run around freely.
Jackbox Party Series
| Genre: | Board Game, Trivia |
| Developers: | Jackbox Games, Inc. |
| Release Date: | 26 November, 2014 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op |
| Average Playtime: | From 2 to 5 hours |
The Jackbox Party Series is a great game to play with family and friends. Each pack contains a total of 5 different games. Players can range from 2-10, depending on the game you play. If your group is over ten people, everyone can join in on the fun as well.
Jackbox can have Audience Members participate in games. From voting on the best artwork to answering trivia questions, there is a wide array of things that the audience members can do aside from just watching the games commence.
A good thing about the Jackbox Party Series is that only one person has to purchase the game in order for the whole group to play.
All you need is your phone and a stable internet connection. You can all gather together in one room, project the game to your TV and use your phones to participate.
There will be a room code that you have to enter on their website. After everyone has been able to join, that’s when you start the game.
There are a lot of games that involve dialogues and drawing. Being the wittiest and humorous in your group will be a great advantage. You will have to come to a vote, and by the end of the game, the person who gets the most votes wins.
What are you waiting for? Grab your phones, gather your friends and start playing!
Party Animals
| Genre: | Fighting, Action, Casual |
| Developers: | Recreate Games |
| Release Date: | — |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | — |
Party Animals is a fun party game that can be played with up to 8 players. There are a total of 12 cute animals to choose from. You can also choose to change their colors to your liking.
There are two modes to this game, the Last Stand and Snatch Squad. In Last Stand, you will battle it out with your friends by beating each other up with your bare fists or with the random weapons sitting around the map.
The player who is the last one standing wins the round. The maps will also have elements that can help end the round faster. For example, you get a map with a submarine. The submarine sinks over time, and not only do you have to try your best not to fall overboard but also try not to sink.
In Snatch Squad, you will be divided into two teams. Your objective is to drop the gummiest bears into your pit to win. As simple as the objective sounds, the gummy bears that you will need to carry are life-sized, making it difficult to move around with them.
Rubber Bandits
| Genre: | Action, Casual, Destruction |
| Developers: | Flashbulb |
| Release Date: | December 2, 2021 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | 2 hours |
Rubber Bandits is a multiplayer party game that can be played with up to 4 people. You play as thieves who have to scavenge, steal, and destroy items in order to gain loot and obtain money. The game has three modes: Heist, Brawl, and Arcade.
In Heist, you and your friends would have 21 items to loot. Your objective is to escape with the most items as they are equivalent to the money you earn in the game.
In order to do so, you must fight your opponents first by using any available weapon to knock them out.
When you knock a player out, you will have ample time to run away without them chasing you. It is best to focus on fighting first before you start looting to get that leeway.
Brawl is basically a deathmatch between you and your three other friends. Everyone starts with three health points.
The goal of this mode is to eliminate all health points of players by knocking them out. The last man standing wins. Here, you can also use weapons to outlive your opponents.
The last mode is Arcade. In this mode, you will have to go against AI cops to obtain loot. These cops gatekeep and protect the loot.
Players can fight and hit cops with any weapon that they are holding but be warned, though, cops can also fight back, making it a bit more challenging with their unpredictable moves.
The Game of Life 2
| Genre: | Board Game, Card Game, Casual |
| Developers: | Marmalade Game Studio Ltd |
| Release Date: | December 11, 2020 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | 17 hours |
The Game of Life 2 is a 3D board game that is playable by four people. Instead of the usual roll the dice, here, you turn the spinner that’s numbered from 1-10 to move your peg.
You start with a total of 200k, and the first decision you will have to make is to choose either college or a career.
If you decide to go to college, you will have to pay your tuition, but in return, you will gain more Knowledge.
If you decide to work immediately, you will get your salary earlier. However, there will be taxes, just like in real life. Every time you land on a tile, you have two choices to pick. These choices will be part of your decision-making process as you live your life through the game.
There is a lucky number that can be attached to the card you choose. For example, you choose to be a Film Director, and you see the number 3 with a star next to it.
Upon picking the card, there will be a star placed on the number 3 of the spinner. Every time someone lands on your number, they have to pay you 50k. When you land on your own lucky number, you get bonus money from the bank.
Aside from the lucky number, the card you pick can also have equivalent attributes attached to them.
You will have a total of three attributes: Knowledge, Happiness, and Wealth. You will know if you have the most attributes if you see a crown beside the symbols. The winner of the game will be the person with the most attributes and money combined.
The Game of Life is already one of my favorite board games, and you can easily play them online with your friends.
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania
| Genre: | Action, Platformer |
| Developers: | Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio |
| Release Date: | October 5, 2021 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | 7 hours |
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is a remake of its old games Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 as well as Super Monkey Ball Deluxe.
The main game combines levels from the old games to feature over 300 stages, which gives you a sense of nostalgia, especially if you are a fan of the original games.
You will have to tilt upwards, downwards, to the left, and to the right to obtain bananas scattered all throughout the maps.
Its multiplayer party games are what make this game a hit. Game modes involve a lot of different sports games where you and your friends can compete with each other either as a team or individually.
The crowd favorite is the Monkey Race. Before you start your game, you get to choose your course and customize the number of laps.
This game mode gives you a Mario Kart-like feeling with its gameplay. You compete with your friends by racing around the map while gathering items that you can use against your opponents, giving you an advantage and putting you in the lead.
Party Panic
| Genre: | Minigames, Casual |
| Developers: | Everglow Interactive Inc. |
| Release Date: | 7 Aug, 2017 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | 8 hours |
If you love mini-games, you will surely enjoy Party Panic where there are over 30 mini-games to choose from.
The gameplay is simple; all you have to do is complete 10,000 points to win the game. After each game, all players will be on a pedestal while the scores are being displayed.
Your pedestal rises as your score increases, which adds a very nice touch when compared with the usual scoring systems.
There is a wide variety of mini-games to choose from. There are games that involve collecting items such as candies to earn points.
There are also evading games where you will have to try your best not to get knocked off to win. What’s fun about these games is that you can choose to punch your friends while in-game, just to distract them or sabotage them.
If you are good at coordination, there are also mini-games that serve that purpose where you will have to press the buttons at the right time.
Gauntlet is a mode where players will have to go through an obstacle course with deadly weapons. When you end up falling or getting hurt, you will just restart at the beginning of a checkpoint. The first player to reach the end wins.
Overall, Party Panic is a very enjoyable game to play with friends. Playing this game will bring out the competitive side you never knew you had.
Wobbly Life
| Genre: | Action, Adventure, Simulation, Casual, Sandbox |
| Developers: | RubberBandGames |
| Release Date: | July 8, 2020 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP |
| Average Playtime: | 2 hours |
You are kicked out of grandma’s house. Where do you go, and what do you do? Wobbly Life is an open-world life sim where you will have to become an adult by getting a job, earning money, and just living life.
In order to survive, you need to earn money, of course. In Wobbly Life, you can accept missions that will help you earn money.
There are also a lot of mini-games to play, such as picking up trash, delivering chemicals, and many more. You can buy clothes, vehicles, and houses from the money you earn.
As this game is wholesome, it is perfect for playing with your kids. There is no violence in this game, only cuteness. Wobbly Life can be played with up to 4 players. You can fly a plane, drive around, shop for clothes, and a whole lot more.
In this game, you create your own story. There is no end goal, and you are free to do whatever you want. It is especially fun to play with friends. Envision that you are all starting over away from all the hustle and bustle in life. This game is a perfect stress reliever for everyone.
Boomerang Fu
| Genre: | Fighting, Competitive, Team-Based |
| Developers: | Cranky Watermelon |
| Release Date: | August 13, 2020 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op |
| Average Playtime: | 2 hours |
Boomerang Fu is a four-player party game to play with your friends and family. You start by picking one among the 12 adorable food characters.
You can be a coffee that’s palpitating and shaking or a piece of bacon. The next step is to pick your modifiers; whatever you pick will be the game you play. You can choose the game’s length, victory condition, available power-ups, boomerangs, and a lot more.
There are three modes to choose from: Free for All, Team Battle, and Golden Boomerang.
In Free for all, everyone will go against each other.
Basically, you have to make it through the round without getting slashed by your opponents’ boomerangs.
Team Battle is the same, but instead of everyone fighting each other, this time, you are grouped into two teams. When your teammate gets slashed, you can revive them by standing on top of them.
While in-game, you will notice books popping out at random. Running through one will get you an upgrade, making it easier for you to win the game.
The final mode is the Golden Boomerang. It starts with a golden boomerang in the middle. Acquiring this will grant you a crown and power.
The other players will have to try and steal the boomerang from your hands without getting slashed. If you hold onto the golden boomerang long enough, you will win the game.
Among Us
| Genre: | Casual, Social Deduction, Survival |
| Developers: | Innersloth |
| Release Date: | November 16, 2018 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online PvP, Lan PvP, Online Co-op, Lan Co-op |
| Average Playtime: | 27 hours |
Among Us is a party game but, at the same time, can also be a psychological thriller, depending on how you perceive it. You will play in a lobby with Crewmates and Impostors.
The objective of each Crewmate is to finish their tasks as quickly as possible. The Impostors, on the other hand, will have to stealthily sabotage the missions by shutting down the power source or turning off the oxygen levels.
Impostors can also choose to murder Crewmates one by one as well, to get the upper hand.
There will be vents for Impostors to use, but once they get caught, it is likely possible that a Crewmate will report them.
When someone presses a report, this will call all players to assemble. Among Us uses democracy as players get to vote on who they think is the Impostor.
The player that receives the most votes gets ejected from the game. Once ejected, you can still roam around the map as a ghost but can’t do anything else.
You also lose the ability to type in the chat box. Ejected players have their own chat box where they can openly discuss the events that happened before they were eliminated, such as who caught them or who murdered them.
The winner is usually the team who is the sneakiest or the best at mind games. Of course, teamwork plays a big part in the game.
You can twist facts to steer the players’ opinions to your advantage. This is why we described the game as a psychological thriller at the beginning.
Pico Park
| Genre: | Action, Casual, 2D Platformer |
| Developers: | TECOPARK |
| Release Date: | May 7, 2021 |
| Find at: | Steam |
| Multiplayer: | Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op |
| Average Playtime: | 2 hours |
Pico Park is a game that can be played with up to 8 players. The goal of the game is simple: get the key and open the door to exit. But before you are able to do this, you must first undergo a lot of stress and frustration with a bit of yelling here and there.
In the Flexible Level mode, you and your friends must cooperate with one another to solve puzzles and finish each level.
This mode requires 100% teamwork. You will need to stack above each other, gather your strength to push boxes together, and jump without falling.
As easy as this may seem, it requires a lot of patience and confidence with your team. If one falls, everyone starts over again. Imagine how frustrating it would be if you are almost at the end when one of you suddenly makes a mistake.
If the cooperative games get too heated, you can choose to go against each other in Battle Mode. The player who scores the most points wins the game.
Pico Park is the type of game that tests your friendship or bond with the people you play with. We only have one piece of advice for you: Do not press the red button!
