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5 best Xbox One party games for Christmas and New Year
Multiplayer fun is guaranteed this festive season with these Xbox One party classics.
If you got an Xbox One for Christmas last year, or if you got an Xbox One X just recently, you’re probably looking for party games to keep everyone happy this Christmas and New Year. Well, we’ve got you covered. Here are our top five party games, guaranteed to entertain everyone, but don’t blame us if you end up fighting over who should have won that last match of Peggle...
1. Drawful 2
Last year we recommended the Jackbox Party Pack, but listen: there’s only one game that you want, and that’s Drawful 2. It’s the best. The pinnacle of party games. It’s Pictionary, but better. It’s played on individual smartphones, so you only need one copy for as many people as you can fit in (you can have up to eight players in the game, but audience members can vote on their favourite answer as well, and you can have loads of them). Best of all, it’s not really a video gamey video game – which means anyone who can draw and follow instructions can play. It’s perfect!
2. Speedrunners
Speedrunners is a gauntlet. Speedrunners is hard. Speedrunners is a test to prove who is actually the best at video games. You and your friends must run through a platforming level, mastering jumps and avoiding obstacles, while the screen gets smaller and smaller. The first person to go off-screen loses, and the last person to stay on-screen is the winner. Matches can go on for a surprisingly long time, as you luck your way into wall-jumping and missile-dodging while simultaneously kicking your opponent down a hole. It’s stressful. It’s brilliant.
3. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Up to four players can work together to pilot a spaceship through the titular Dangerous Spacetime in this adorable, candy-coloured co-operative game. The problem is that there’s not QUITE enough people to man every single station on the spaceship, so you’ll have to co-ordinate to make sure someone’s always shooting the enemies, moving the shield, steering the ship and checking the map. But don’t worry – you can get upgrades along the way, improving and automating the different stations… but sometimes the upgrades make everything WAY worse. Good luck!
4. Castle Crashers Remastered
This re-release for the Xbox One takes an excellent game and polishes it up into something brilliant. If you enjoyed Streets of Rage, this is the game for you – except it's much more cartoony, and a hell of a lot sillier. You and several friends have to fight your way through the gauntlet of enemies, bosses, traps and obstacles, supporting each other and trying not to die. You will die. You will die so many times. Want to teach your family the value of perseverance? This is the game for you.
5. Peggle 2
Peggle is probably never going to leave the list of Best Party Games, just because it’s solid, simple and the most STRESSFUL game you’ll ever play. It’s the modern-day equivalent of those arcade games where you have to get a ball into the right basket at the bottom, but along the way are a bunch of pegs that bounce and divert the ball somewhere you don’t want it to be. However, in Peggle 2, the point is to hit the pegs to get the highest score. You’re basically your own worst enemy. Why not make it a REAL competition and say that whoever gets the lowest score has to do the Christmas dinner washing up?
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