Party Time — Play Free Online

Party Time is a multiplayer obstacle-course game from the studio PEEPS*, and it was their first release on Poki. Instead of a single track you race alone, you are dropped into a course with other players, all trying to reach the finish first while the course, and your rivals, get in the way.

The pace is chaotic rather than precise. Other players can knock you around with objects, so a run that looks clean can fall apart in a second. The game packs in eight different modes, and the courses range from forgiving to properly hard. Along the way you collect outfits, which gives repeat sessions a small goal beyond winning.

If you came to Doodle Jump for quick, one-more-try arcade play, this is the same pull in a 3D, multiplayer wrapper: short rounds, an instant restart, and nothing to install since it runs in the browser.

How to play

Move with WASD or the arrow keys, jump with the spacebar, and move the mouse to look around. The mouse is also what you click to choose a course or mode from the menus. On a phone or tablet the game offers touch controls instead.

A round is simple in outline: pick a course, run, jump and dodge through the hazards, and try to get ahead of the other players. Some moments call for changing your size, which changes how you fit through or past obstacles.

Tips

• Keep the camera pointed slightly ahead of you so you can see the next obstacle before you reach it, not just the one underfoot.
• Stay out of the crowd when you can. Clusters of players mean more objects flying around, and a clear side line often costs less time than a shoving match.
• Jump from the edge deliberately rather than mashing the spacebar; mistimed jumps are the commonest way to lose a lead.
• Try the different modes early. They reward different habits, so you will find which one suits you faster than by grinding a single course.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

For another game about reaching a goal through hazards, Fireboy and Watergirl swaps the crowd for a two-character puzzle platformer, and Ovo 2 is a fast solo parkour platformer where precision matters more than luck. Helix Jump keeps the tension of timing but on a single falling ball, with no opponents to worry about.

Party Time suits short sessions, from a quick round or two to a longer run at unlocking outfits, and it works with keyboard and mouse or on a touch screen.