Lego Party! Is the Mario Party for Everyone — Brutally Fun, Cross‑Platform Brick Battles
Lego Party! is a cross-platform party game from SMG Studio, the team behind Moving Out. It follows a board-game-plus-minigames formula, with collectible gold bricks, unlockable minifigs, and difficulty tiers that change how challenging minigames and AI opponents feel.
Overview
SMG Studio released Lego Party! as a party-focused game that puts players on themed boards and into short competitive minigames. The goal on each board is to collect as many gold bricks as possible before the turn limit expires. The game uses Lego studs as a round-by-round currency, which players spend on bricks and power-ups.
Gameplay and boards
Lego Party! ships with four main boards: Pirate, Ninja, Space, and Theme Park. Each board contains multiple ways to earn gold bricks, including landing on specific spaces, completing tasks, and using power-ups. Moreover, some board sections are built dynamically during play, which can change the route and available actions mid-game.
Additionally, each round starts with a minigame, and the minigame rankings determine turn order for the next round. This ordering mechanic affects strategy since higher placement can give earlier movement and access to different board spaces.
Minigames and difficulty
The title includes a range of minigames: karting, timing-and-placement puzzles, racing, logic puzzles, and Lego-themed variants of classic arcade concepts. Many minigames are multi-round affairs with variations on the same basic structure, which allows players to recover from a single mistake over the course of the match.
There are multiple difficulty tiers — notably Easy, Normal, and Hard — and the AI scales with those settings. As a result, minigames can be tuned from casual-friendly to quite competitive, with tighter timing windows and more demanding inputs on higher difficulties.
Modes and unlocks
Game modes are fairly focused: you can play on the traditional board, run individual minigames à la carte, or attempt specific challenge modes. In other words, the mode list is smaller than some long-running party franchises, but each board offers repeatability through varied objectives and collectible rewards.
There is a substantial cosmetics and progression system. Players can unlock many minifig configurations through gameplay, XP, and in-game bonuses. Consequently, collecting and customizing avatars is a clear progression loop built into the experience.
Platforms and review info
Lego Party! is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. The game supports cross-platform multiplayer and includes online and local play options.
For documentation, the title was reviewed on Nintendo Switch 2 using a copy provided by the publisher. The developer listed for the project is SMG Studio.
Final notes
In short, Lego Party! combines a board-game structure with a suite of Lego-styled minigames, multiple difficulty settings, and a collectible-driven progression system. The package is designed for cross-platform play and family-friendly sessions, while allowing for more challenging play through higher difficulty tiers and competitive minigame designs.
