![]() With a total track list that runs into the hundreds of thousands, the depth is there for repeat play. Because you can play via your phones, little Bluetooth controllers like the 8BitDo minis, or the Switch’s own Jo圜ons, it’s likely you’ve got enough “controllers” around the house, and on the Switch up to eight people can play simultaneously for a particularly loud party experience. Seeing people try and beat me to the buzzer to pick a song from New Order/Joy Division is just plain funny (that’ll never happen – I can pick almost any song from that band, from any part of the song, within a note or two). And it was a good guess by the developers because that is wildly entertaining. SongPop Party relies entirely on the idea that guessing music quicker than your friends makes for entertaining times. You are not meant to take your time playing SongPop Party seriously, and it has been carefully designed so that you won’t. The screen is minimalist as anything (it’s just a coloured background and the questions), and there is also no long-term stat keeping for player profiles that could encourage things to get a little too serious. There are no negative points rounds, no ability to troll one another, no power-ups, and no board game structures that get in the way of the trivia. That really is all there is to SongPop Party. The perfect length of time between beers in a party situation. Including setup time, the time between music, and the results screen, an entire game of SongPop Party is done in two minutes. I realise that these categories wouldn’t mean much to most people but my wife forever feels left out with trivia games because they are so Western-focused, and it would be nice to see any of the developers of these things acknowledge that other cultures exist.Įach game of SongPop party lasts 10 questions, and each question plays out the same way – a small sample of the music track is played, and you’ve got four possible answers, with a maximum of ten seconds to figure out which piece of music it is (or take a random guess). Where’s the classic JPop, Enka, and Latin music, folks? There’s one KPop playlist, but it doesn’t seem to realise that Koreans had music before Americans decided it was cool. The only downside is that, as comprehensive as it is, it does lack “foreign” music. ![]() SongPop Party accommodates almost everyone, and you can always take turns selecting categories to make sure that everyone gets their moment to dominate. Everyone is fully entitled to like the music they like, of course, but very few trivia games get that. Other people wouldn’t have a clue what a Duran Duran is, but know Billie Eilish’s music beyond that one song, and that’s totally fine. My parents and I can have great fun competing over our knowledge of 80’s music, but with almost any of the categories from the 2020’s, we’d be taking wild stabs in the dark. This kind of granular control is actually pretty important, because not everyone has the same experience or expertise in music, and far too many music trivia games leave people feeling left out. Screenshots were all taken from the Apple Arcade version, as the Switch software doesn’t allow captures, but it looks just like this. The kind of absolutely terrible music that teenagers would always pick for their school dances in the 90’s? No, seriously, that’s a category. This ranges from 50’s and older music right through to the current hits, and allows you to tailor the competition down into some pretty amazing niches. SongPop Party is this simple: Everyone sets themselves up with a little avatar, and then you pick the genre and category of music that you want. ![]() It’s the perfect version of the perfect party game. Now the game has moved off mobile devices and Apple Arcade to land on the Nintendo Switch, the perfect party console, and it’s a whole lot less messy to deal with for multiplayer fun than on iPhone or Apple TV. It takes something that is fundamentally compelling – music trivia – and gives people a no-frills way of playing that and, importantly, doing so with the music that they actually like. SongPop Party is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the finest party games in existence.
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