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Free demo for Party Animals tops 135k concurrent players on Steam

October 12, 2020 The Party Animals demo has reached a new concurrent player peak of 135,843 on Steam.

Party Animals is pretty much Gang Beasts - a physics-focused multiplayer brawler where you awkwardly wail on your friends until you can knock them off of the stage. Except this time, it's adorable animals doing the punching. That sounds like a recipe for success, and so far the numbers have borne it out, as the free demo for Party Animals has reached some absurd heights on Steam.

The Party Animals demo reached a concurrent player count peak of 135,843 earlier today, as SteamDB shows. That's well past the daily peak for venerable free PC games like Path of Exile, and surpasses the today's highs for games like Rainbow Six Siege and Rocket League. It's an absurd number for a demo to put up, and far beyond the game's previous limited-time demo release back in June, which reached a peak of just under 8k.

If you haven't checked out Party Animals yet, this is going to be your last chance for a while. The demo is going away on October 13 at 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 18:00 BST. If you want to hit the Steam page and play it, you'll need to make it quick.

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Party Animals New Free Demo is Coming Soon

Hi Friends and Animals,

Party Animals new demo will be available from Oct. 4th 9am PST to Oct. 13th 10am PST.

This version includes new maps, new weapons, new characters and an even challenging tutorial.

Who`s ready to party?

Cheers,
Dev Team @ Recreate Games

Demo Version No Longer Available, See You Next Time

Hi Friends and Animals,

Steam Festival successfully ended on 10am PDT June 22nd and Party Animals Demo is no longer available right now.

We will improve the server and fix bugs in the following weeks. When everything's ready, we would like to provide everyone with a free, much more steady demo. Do come back and enjoy the game then ;-)

All future updates will be released in Steam announcements/Twitter/Discord server.
Follow us (OR ADD WISHLIST) so you don’t miss the updates.

We hope you had great time with the demo and we’ll see you very soon ;)

Thank you very much for your love and support.

Cheers,
Dev Team @ Recreate Games

[Archived] Server Fix: How to Log In the Game

Hi friends and animals,

You may experience a hard time logging into the game because all the servers are overloaded now.
We have opened up three new game channels to have more gamers in.

When you launch the game, you will be sent to a default server. If you are having trouble logging in, please try manually switch to another game channel by following the steps below:

Right click "Party Animals Demo" in Steam library, then "Properties", then "Betas".
Select "region-us" if you are in North America, or select "region-asia" / "region-asia2" if you are in Asia. Servers for other area is on the way.
Then go to “Local Files” and click the “Verify integrity of game files” button.
Close the tab and launch the game. You will be directed to the new server you selected.

If you didn't see any other channel in the drop-down list, then please relaunch Steam client.
Please notice that if you want to play with friends, then make sure all of you are using the same channel. Otherwise you won't be able to see each other or join friends' rooms.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Cheers,
Dev Team @ Recreate Games

Confession About Server Issue Happened During Festival

Hi friends and animals,

We’d like to be open and honest with our players and let everyone to know what actually happened with the server for the last 19 hours.

First of all, as a small developer, we didn’t expect such enthusiasm from our players all over the world. If we could ever imagine this, we would have warned our service provider for the upcoming traffic. We are very sorry for what happened today.

The unexpected (but very appreciated) player base of our game has brought our service provider great burden for managing their servers and also causes trouble for other companies they are working with. Hence they put limits on the number of concurrent players on 10pm GMT June 18th.

We were sleeping at that time and were unable to contact them regarding the limitation. And for the following 13 hours we’ve been trying all ways to contact them and they finally replied us on 11am GMT June 19th.

After communicating with them, they agreed to temporarily raise the limitation. But it may still be insufficient given the global player base we currently have. Local game and AIs on the other hand is available for playing anytime.

We will enhance the server capability after the festival and would like to provide everyone with a free, much more steady demo with more contents sometimes in the near future. We hope you will come back and enjoy the game then :)

Again we are truly sorry for what happens today and for bringing your guys a bad gaming experience.

Thank you for your understanding and support :)

Best,
Dev Team @ Recreate Games