Party Party Time Game Guide for Switch

Party Party Time is a recent addition to our collection of multiplayer Nintendo Switch games. It comes with 38 minigames. Some are winners, some are losers in my opinion. Most of the minigames are above average though.

One sure thing is there are a lot of minigames. There are more player vs player than co-op games. All the games involve jumping, attacking, or perfect timing.

Since there are so many, I didn’t include the expansion pack. Here’s a guide to all the minigames in Party Party Time!

These minigames fall into different categories. Players try to eliminate others, score more points, or accomplish a task quicker than other players.

Bouncing Ball Bazooka: We had a bazooka that shoots balls at each other. The balls bounce off the walls and obstacles. It took 3 hits to eliminate our opponents. Be careful because your balls can hit you too!

Attack Ball: In this game we were inside a protective ball and the goal was to push everyone else off the platform. The button gives you a short dash. The outer rings periodically drop, giving you less and less space.

Bumper Tanks: The goal is to knock everyone else off the platform. Move around to avoid being shot while shooting at everyone else.

Water Shooter: In this game you drench other players with a water blaster. You have a health meter and a water supply meter. Once your health meter is empty you’re eliminated. You can refill your water blaster from any of the 4 pools of water.

Dodgebomb: In this game we ran around obstacles while dodging exploding bombs. We could pick up bombs before they explode and toss them at other players. Or just toss them away from yourself if ya’ll wanna be nice.

Block Changer: The goal is to change as many blocks to your color as possible. All blocks start as white. We ran around changing them while other players did the same. Whoever had the most blocks in their color won.

Perfect Dice: The goal is to keep rolling your dice until it matches the number on the screen. Once it matches stop rolling! You can attack other players to knock their dice off, forcing them to start over. The player that held the matching dice the longest earns the most points.

Stack ‘n’ Block: Similar to Pac Man. We ran around collecting blocks of our color. While also attacking other players so they lost blocks.

Mole Hammer: Just your average whack-a-mole game. We got an oversized hammer and ran around hitting any mole that pops up from a hole. We could also hit each other to temporarily stun them.

Slope Jumping: Basic obstacle course. We ran forward while dodging spikes, saws, bars, and balls. Points are earned for dodging obstacles and lost for hitting an obstacle. We could jump and attack plus get a power up for temporary speed boost.

Block Wiper: This game is like Hungry Hungry Hippo. You push as many blocks of your color as you can into your goal. Grad the power-up for a temporary speed boost. Gold blocks are worth more too.

Get Ball: The goal is to push as many balls in your goal as possible. Balls randomly fall in the center. There isn’t any dashing or attacking. A power-up temporarily gives you a speed boost. The gold ball is worth more than the colored ones.

Canon Defense: Basic shooting game. The goal is to shoot as many robots as you can before time runs out. Shooting the people mixed in with the robots looses points.

Skydive Scramble: The goal is to collect as many coins as possible. As you fall you move around to collect coins and attack other players. Large coins are worth more. Purple coins subtract money.

Block Train: In this game the goal is to stay on the screen. There are several platforms covering the screen. Trains come along and will push you off unless you jump out of the way. Also other players can attack you.

Scroll Jump: In this game the goal is to stay on the screen. You jump from one set of blocks or triangle shape to another as they scroll up or down off screen. If you can’t get to another platform before rising or falling off screen you lose. You can also attack other players if you’re really competitive.

Sucker Punch: The goal is to not fall off the platform. The floor changes color warning you which one of the boxing gloves are going to strike. You can also attack other players to push them off the map.The last player standing wins.

Runaway Balls: The goal is to stay on the platform while a ball shoots out from different pipes and bounces around. You have to run and jump out of its way. Also, you can attack other players to help them off the platform.

Survival Reversi: This is Reversi aka Othello. It’s played on a grid of spaces. You start in the middle and choose to take one of the adjoining spaces. As we took a new space it changes all the spaces diagonally, vertically, or horizontally between your colored spaces. The player with the most spaces wins.

Perfect Timer: The goal is to press the button to match the time displayed. A counter starts counting but disappears after 5 seconds. You have to keep counting and stop the timer as close as you can to match the displayed time.

It’s Thataway!: The goal is to be the first to move in the same direction as the arrow once it appears on the screen.

Timing Stamp: The idea is to time your jumps to land on the moving white patches. But only as it passes through the outlined square. Smaller white patches are worth more than standard size ones. There’s no attacking in this game.

Bomb Roulette: You have to enter a sequence of buttons and directions before time runs out to pass the bomb to the next player. It wasn’t balanced, since whoever got the last spot usually won. We found every new round added complexity to the point the first 3 players lost and the 4th won by default!

Dance This Way: In this minigame a dancer performs some moves. You memorize the pattern of buttons, then it’s your turn to enter the correct pattern. All those hours in my youth playing Simon helped for this game.

UFO Collectors: Players control a UFO to collect as many balls as possible. Putting colored balls in their corresponding colors earns more points.

Try-Umph: Players work together moving a jar to collect falling balls. Everyone holds a corner and has to move in the same direction. We enjoyed this game but I can see how some are going to find it frustrating.

Matching Dots: Players work together to build pixel art. We picked up a tile from a palette of 4 colors. Then placed it on the grid accordingly. We had to work fast before time ran out.

Everybody Calculate!: Players work together to solve math problems. We had to stand on random numbers to make the math work. I hate to admit it but randomly running around worked better than figuring out the math!

Climb! Block: Players try to climb to the top as Tetris pieces fall. Only one player has to succeed climbing to the top.

Spinning Cube: Players try to stay on the spinning cube as robots attack them and obstacles get it the way. Only one player needs to survive to win.

Everybody Go!: Players are attached at the hip as they make their way through an obstacle course. Every step or jump depends on all players hitting the correct button.

Catch and Pong: Players catch balls as they fall out of pipes. The balls take a random path through the maze of pipes. Putting the colored ball in it’s corresponding colored bit earns more points.

Shooting Ball: Players shoot balls into the basket to earn points. Gold balls are worth more than standard colored balls.

Cannon Shot: Players shoot cannons at targets. The blast is big enough to hit two or more targets with one shot.

Jumping without Falling: Players do simple math problems to find the correct platform to stand on. Each player has one math problem. Then we had to jump across to the correct platform before time ran out.

Block Labyrinth: Players need to move blocks to make a path to the exit before time runs out. This was one of my favorites.

Bang! Bang! Hammer: Players time the hammer strike for maximum power. They need to earn enough points before time runs out. We each got a turn with the hammer. As long as we all got consistently good strikes, we had success!

Most Party Party Time mini games are fun and easy to play. We didn’t like the math ones. Our favorites were the cooperative games. The player vs player games were good too.

Since there were many games to choose from the gameplay didn’t go stale. I liked that you just choose a game and started. Some party games have a lot of cut scenes before, during, and after playing that bog it down.

Party Party time was easy to learn and had a variety of games in my experience.

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