How to Play Pummel Party: Complete Beginner's Guide

Throws a deadly boxing glove in the targeted direction.

Aim and fire at another player to deal serious damage.

Restores a significant amount of health.

Drop a beehive to damage other players.

Point this magnet at another player to steal their keys or items.

A remote-controlled explosive eggplant, move it toward your target and then detonate it.

Creates a portal under another player to swap your position with theirs; once swapped, you cannot roll again.

A wrecking ball comes seemingly from nowhere and destroys your target.

Ride this rocket ten spaces toward the target, taking any other players in your path along with you.

Wear a cactus disguise that protects you from the next instance of damage; while the cactus is active, Swap Portals can't be used against you with other items.

Open this present to find out what's inside — will it be good or bad for you?

Summon an ancient evil that patrols the map and kills your enemies.

Use this item to atomize any player anywhere on the map, killing them in one shot.

Dump nuclear waste on another player, swelling up their hands and preventing them from using items or dealing damage for several turns.

Use this arcade machine to challenge another player to a retro game, the winner earns a trophy.

What to Do Before the Game

Creating a Game

To start a new game, one person (the host) will create a new game. It's always recommended that the person with the best internet connection host the game. If a player disconnects, the host can save the game to reload it as a saved file.

Joining a Lobby

You can search the lobby to find the game your server created, but sometimes the game doesn't show up, so there's a faster method. If you're friends on Steam, right-click their name and click Join Game. After joining the game, you'll need to click Join to add yourself as a player for the lobby.

Character Customization

After adding yourself as a player, you can make some changes to personalize your character if you want.

What to Do During the Game

Objective

Your objective can be anything you want it to be. Whether it's punishing a specific friend or winning the game. In the latter case, we've found that you'll try to grab the most trophies 100% of the time. This can include active side achievements you'll pick up when the rounds end (e.g., most damage dealt, etc.).

Turn Order

At the start of the game, turn order is ranked from the highest roll to the lowest. After every round, the players will play a minigame, and the turn order for the next round is determined by that minigame's placements (also ranked from highest to lowest). NPCs (such as the Pummeltown Killer and the rabbit in the Dark Summoning Staff) always move after all players have finished their turns, but before the next minigame starts.

On Your Turn

When your character's turn comes up, a die will appear above your head, and you'll always see a golden line of light pointing toward the nearest trophy/cup location. You're offered the option to use items (if your head isn't swollen) or to roll the dice. Note: You're only allowed to use one item per round, only on your turn, and only before you roll. After using an item, you'll roll a 1d10 die, which lets you roll a numeric value between 0 and 9. Note: It's usually good to follow the light line's advice, but there will be times when it's not wise to do so (for example, if there's an NPC nearby that will hurt you).

Items

You can use items during the game. Ideally, items are usually used to put (an)other player(s) at a disadvantage and/or to help you reach your objective. Realistically, players use items based on how much wrath a player has drawn and, more likely, revenge.

Items can be obtained during the game in the following ways:

• Landing on an item icon.
• Finishing first, second, and sometimes third in a minigame.
• Using a magnet to take a random item from another player.

Minigames

At the end of every round, a random minigame will be chosen (unless someone selects a game via an available item). All players take part in the minigame and compete for placement. Generally, first and second place will get an item, but sometimes third place will too. All players get keys down to sixth place, in a decreasing amount (depending on the minigame played). Tip: If you're great at minigames and can control the outcome, the big kid game should be placed last, so you can take out players in the next round.

Maps

Depending on the map you're playing on, there are specific tiles and NPCs that can be included in/excluded from the game.

Strategies

• If another player is closer to the objective and you don't have any items that can help you, it may be good to choose a different direction to wait for the new trophy/cup location. This will usually get you out of danger (e.g., from a Rocket Skewer).
• If you don't trust rolling like a ballerina, or you want to make sure you reach the objective first, you can use the Rocket Skewer to put yourself one space away from the trophy, even if you're only two spaces away. (Example: You're two spaces away from the trophy/cup and have enough keys to trade, but the first tile is a reverse tile, which would make you walk in the opposite direction if you land on it. So you use the Rocket Skewer to move yourself one tile closer to the objective. Even if you land on the reverse tile from the rocket, the effect won't trigger because you still have to roll.)