Party Treats

Genre: Party Game

Players: 1-4 Competitive (Local)

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Review:

Party Treats is a Party Game released on Nintendo Switch in 2019. In this game, players take the role of various sweet treats with faces on them, each bouncing along a grind of tiles to try to get to a dragon that will eat them. However, the tiles are filled with hidden booby traps, and players must remember where these traps are and try and move around them to get to the dragon before anyone else does.

The presentation uses simple, cartoony 2D visuals with a cutesy art style and a lot of color, with a wide variety of different sweet treats to choose from as their character. This is backed by an energetic, whimsical soundtrack that works well enough for the frenetic gameplay.

As for the gameplay itself, while there are other gameplay elements such as single-use items that can hinder opponents, for the most part players pretty much just move across tiles until they suddenly find themselves falling prey to a trap, and must remember not to step on that same spot again as they take another path. Sometimes these spots leave a mark after this, making them easier to avoid, but otherwise it’s mainly just trial and error, over and over again. Trial and error and pure dumb luck as the winner is often the one who just happened to luck into the right path earlier than anyone else. Or worse – the place they started in had a less-obstructed path than the other players.

While there may have been a better way to work a Party Game about avoiding traps and getting to a goal before others, what we have here in Party Treats is pretty disappointing in and of itself. For a bit of brainless fun this might survive a few rounds in a party situation, but the repetition and high amount of luck involved definitely make this a game you’re not likely to play for very long.

tl;dr – Party Treats is a Party Game where players take the role of sweet treats trying to find a safe path through a field full of hidden booby traps. It’s an interesting concept, but what it amounts to is a lot of repetition and luck-based gameplay. Your party may be briefly amused by this, but they’ll tire of it quickly.

Grade: C-

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