LEGO Party Reviews
Blog Andrew Joseph 30 Sep , 2025 0
Given that the Lego brand is being thrown into nearly every family-friendly multiplayer game you can think of right now, from Carter Racers to Super Smash Bros clones, and even a spin-off from Rock Bands, it's amazing how it took so long for the world's largest brickmaker to build their own monuments to Mario Party. Lego Party is more than just a barrier-based counterfeit from Nintendo's long-running virtual board game series. Of course, it might use Mario Party fundamentals as a base base and replace the best small sizes of the Mushroom Kingdom with a lot of quirky comics, but each one here is definitely full of personality and not a stud-based fool in the 60 minigames. If you are pursuing a lot of laughter, Lego Party will have all the right parts to spend a pleasant evening with friends and family.
If you've ever played one of Nintendo's party players, the basics of LEGO parties are as easy to master as a small coffee cup on Minifig's fist. In this case, the goal is to collect bricks and studs, not stars and coins, as you and three other players surround four unique themed game boards scattered with various studs of dangerous and potentially profitable activity spaces. Depending on the board of your choice, each session is short six rounds or about 45 minutes, but can stretch all the way to three hours of 24-round epic, with four pits in each turn interacting with each other and fighting each other, designed to be easy to pick up for LEGO teenagers and old-fashioned tech fans, but mastering.
Everyone can carry up to three power that can be purchased in the store's studs or collected from the Fate-style spin, and these power supplies can have dramatic ranking effects, such as teleporting the Minifig directly to the brick space, or slowing down the roll to increase the chances of the exact amount of space you need. Many of these basics have been established several times in the Mario Party Blueprint, and the LEGO Party accepted the “Instruction Manual for Don’t Fish the Ears from a Toy Box without Bankruptcy and Reconstructing it” to keep many of these empirical core concepts intact.
But there are some key elements to find them in the LEGO Party’s Pirates, Ninjas, Space and Theme Park Board. For beginners, each minigame is elected your minifig through one of the three options proposed at the beginning of each round, and I like that this means my party has more control over the activities we can enjoy every evening’s meeting. (Of course, if you prefer a more random mini-game experience like Mario Party, you can choose from it too.) I also prefer the Lego Party system, letting the results of each mini-game determine the order of turn in each subsequent round, rather than the Mario Party rolling through footsteps at the beginning and sticking to orders across the entire end and sticking to it. I found that the LEGO Party’s results-driven approach increases the ebb and flow of each board and brings motivation to do well in every mini-game.
More notably, each wonderful candy color and excellent detailed board at the LEGO party has many special building areas that allow you to choose from two structures to build on the space that can dramatically change the map and introduce various game-changing additions. For example, in the theme park board, you might choose to build an extreme area that introduces gloves for twitchy stunt challenges to successfully propose to earn bricks. Also, you can choose Royal Walls, which brings a Ballista-based mini game that quickly pierces the studs and pops up another random player for you and steals a gold brick. Mixed with various other board-specific features, for example, when the space map briefly transformed into a turn war based on giant green aliens, each of these game boards kept my family and my family together, which made me feel fresh and fun.
Everything is great
This has also been fun, mainly due to Ted Talker and Lego Party’s own weird review team Ted Talker and Paige Turner. It seems inspired by game shows that gag games like Pieout or Holey Moley, Ted and Paige provide a colorful background for each turn and respond in real time to each player’s performance in the mini game, either dragging them on them as they struggle or dragging them as they struggle. Surprisingly, even on every board of the four boards of the LEGO Party, I hardly heard the same joke, although to be fair, it could be because half of the time was completely overwhelmed by half of the comments, either by an uncontrollable laugh or a salty quarrel, as a tough gold medal undoubtedly caught another player. Seriously, if you're playing with a competitive team, it's harder to sting than suddenly finding barefoot flesh.
The rest of the LEGO Party’s comedy stems from the competitive chaos of the challenge itself, and developer SMG Studio (which had previously been entertained with the farce-based Shenanigans’ show series), has actually surpassed the architecture of its own Morish Minigames. From the challenges of memory testing to physics-driven race and rhythm-based dance, the LEGO party’s mini-game lineup is as diverse as it’s shifting, full of personality and creativity. Also, it's always a good sign of how fascinating it is when players get stuck in the game without realizing they haven't even left the pre-match practice screen, which is something I've happened so far during the LEGO party.
Some mini games are great, and Toybox pays homage to other multiplayer chaotic giants, such as the obstacle course dash comes straight from the fall guys, or very similar tracks to Rocket League. Others tend to play with the familiar touch of Lego itself, like monsters that try to build monsters from a bunch of different shapes without giving any instructions. There is a challenge, with four football goals that can defend against more and more balls like the inverted game of the Hungry Hippo, and the other is every little ball on the LEGO motorcycle and challenges you to the route you're going up and down like the cute entertainment of the HD.
The most popular mini games among my couch contestants are those that feel like we've played before. There is a crazy four-way battle, smashing opponents’ LEGO vases with bricks, and it gradually speeds up as each player deflects, or nightclub-themed showdowns, seeing each of you will see each of your players clamping the elasticity to the floating dance floor with elastic grapple hook hooks. Of course, everyone at my party has their own personal choice: I love anything in the four rounds, my son really likes zero gravity games, and my daughter’s favorite is…basically she’s the kind of mini-game she’s won lately. However, the quality of the challenge here is consistent across the board, and even if we choose a random mini-game choice, we rarely feel disappointed with what happened.
Everything is cool when you're part of the team
I also thank these mini games for their success mainly relies on the combination of skills and luck. You won't find any cheap button challenge types here, like the ones popped up at Mario parties, which I always feel like unnecessary wear and tear on my expensive gaming controllers, not to mention that it seems a bit unfair to the young players in my lounge, which doesn't have decades of button-style exercises that get pumped into the biceps.
There is also no bias in the three-VS matching type to force most people to unfairly tie a person to individuals, as the LEGO Party mini-games are always distributed evenly – either each person themselves or landing on a brick battlefield on a team on both occasions. These team-based conflicts range from the purity of a doubles hockey game to more ridiculous collaborative tasks, where one targets a T-shirt cannon while the other fires it to a naked audience, all requiring effective communication and coordination between the duo to win. Actually, I liked these brick battles so much that I was a little disappointed as I found out that there were only 9 of them.
Even so, I'm glad that LEGO parties don't bother with the random participation rewards at the end of each board, like many Mario party games. Since the chance space of changing fate is sprinkled on the map at the closing stage, and many of the games I have played see the leader keep turning around the whole process to the last round, but at the end, the winner is always clearly defined – after the fact is unfairly placed on pure statistics, the event of winning statistics, the fact that they are always defined. It makes victory feel like it is achieved through real merits rather than more mysterious means. That doesn't mean other players won't take the opportunity to beat you to the championship's podium, though – I mean, literally, especially on interactive results screens, it usually turns into a frenzy slap battle, slipping on banana peels and breaking the background.
While the LEGO Party’s lineup of playable photography may not be as iconic as anyone else in Mario or Yoshi, it makes up for its sheer numbers and a lot of character customization choices. Playing on each game board or a featured mini-game playlist, XP gradually unlocks a series of simple progress paths and grants you the carrots that can be spent in a separate miniature collection in the store. The minifigs here are more than the number you can shake Mini Twigs – from my 200+ Goth Kid Minifigs to humanoid pizza slices and stylish Ninja Warriors, their individual parts can be used to make their own new pieces when you unlock everyone. Want small shoes with Tigerprint pants, Miami-style linen jackets and American football helmets? Weird combination, but for sure, that's all you have.
Speaking of things together, I would love to see the LEGO Party leverage many popular culture partnerships that Danish Bricks have accumulated over the years and bring them to the party in the form of an expansion pack or a future sequel. The Lego Star Wars Board’s mini-game board designed around Lightsaber Wars and Death Star Trench will be a treat, and a LEgo Indiana Jones board event space will also trigger the awkward trap of lost savage styles and raiders of boulders. Given that Nintendo has recently integrated with the LEGO brand, at least in the Switch version, we can even see that the extension of the LEGO Mario LEGO Party is unimaginable. To be clear, this nature is not announced, I just thought out loud, but so far I have exploded with the LEGO party and I really hope it sets up a great plastic foundation for a series that stays here.