Ben and Ed - Blood Party

I came in expecting a throwaway party game and got something that sits right on the fence between genuinely funny and frustratingly unpolished. Blood Party drops up to four players into gory obstacle courses built around one central gimmick: your zombie body is falling apart the whole time. Limbs detach, your head can be thrown as a projectile, and the game can transform you into a meat block at any moment. That physics-based chaos is the entire engine of the experience, and for the first hour with friends, it absolutely delivers. The multiplayer modes split into competitive racing (first rotting body to the goal wins) and cooperative course completion, and the tonal shift between the two is bigger than you might expect. Racing turns the game mean in a satisfying way. Co-op smooths things out into shared suffering, which is its own kind of fun. Both modes support local split-screen and online play, which is legitimately appreciated for a game at this price tier. The level editor rounds out the package, letting you build your own death traps and push them to the Steam Workshop for the community to suffer through. The Workshop is active enough to keep content flowing long after you exhaust the official maps. Here is where I have to be honest with the performance-aware crowd: the controls are janky in a way that is sometimes charming and sometimes just bad. Losing control of your character because a limb clipped into geometry is a mechanic the game leans into, but it crosses into frustration when a tight obstacle course punishes you for reasons you cannot parse. The level editor has a learning curve that some community reviews describe as tricky and imprecise. Optimization has drawn criticism too, with players noting the game can run rough even on hardware that should handle a goofy zombie platformer without issue. Solo play exists but the official maps feel thin when there is nobody else in the lobby. The game has an all-time concurrent player peak of 58 according to tracking sites, which tells you everything you need to know about online matchmaking with strangers in 2025. This is a bring-your-own-friends situation, full stop. If you have a Discord group looking for something cheap and chaotic for a single evening session, Blood Party delivers. If you are buying this expecting a polished solo platformer with a real campaign, you will bounce off it hard. Fred, Scout Team