The Best Beginner Tips In Party Club

Party Club is a cosy co-op venue management game featuring cute clients from the animal kingdom. Players can get their paws dirty mixing drinks, mending machines, and meeting (or beating) partygoers with friends online, by teaming up with couch co-op, or as a solo venture.

It can be a little overwhelming getting your new venue set up, especially when you’re just a little pangolin with no experience running a bar before. But, there are a few things to keep in mind to help you get started. With these tips, you’ll be rolling in coins and acorns before you know it.

Set Up As Quickly As Possible

At the start of each day, you get given some time to set up your bar. You can technically spend as long as you want to do this, making it the perfect opportunity to repair broken items, clean up messes, and buy new furniture. Despite the unlimited amount of time you’re given, you’ll probably have noticed that there’s a stopwatch counting down to zero.

Any time that’s left on the stopwatch when you finish setting up adds to the length of your next day. Longer days mean more time to serve customers, which in turn means more points and coins per day. It also gives you extra time to try and hit those pesky quests you need to finish to clear the level. So, try to set it up as fast as you can.

Use dash liberally, especially when moving furniture. Animals walk slowly while carrying heavy furniture boxes, but surprisingly they can still dash really quickly.

Prepare Drinks Near The End Of The Day

The frantic pace of serving total (literal) animals makes it tough to keep on top of replenishing everyone’s drinks. Thankfully, any drinks left over at the end of your shift can be used the next day. This includes drinks in the mixer as well as fountain drinks.

Towards the end of the day – say, after the last call – spend some time filling up as many glasses and mixers as you can with drinks. This will help make the following day less frantic and stressful, and they’ll still be as fresh as they were when they were first made.

Try buying some counters and leaving full glasses of drinks on them, ready to go for your first customers.

Look For Deals In The Shop

During each set-up period, you’ll be given the chance to spend your hard-earned coins on new furniture, equipment, and power-ups from the store. A lot of items are pretty expensive, though, and will require some saving up. Daily sales help with this.

Spend some time browsing the shop before you make a purchase, as different items in the store have money off daily. There will always be at least a couple of items reduced, so if you shop carefully you can make your money go much further.

Some quests will need you to buy a certain item or even a few of a specific item. When you’re doing those quests, check in a couple of times to see if the item goes on sale before you invest in it.

Choose Drink Machines Carefully

As a good barkeeper, your gut will probably be to offer your patrons as wide a variety of beverages as possible. However, unless a quest explicitly calls you to do so, it’s worth keeping your menu as limited as possible to simplify your bar’s operations.

Customers will only ever order what’s available to them, so you don’t need to worry about a rowdy wolf asking for a whisper juice when you only have bubbles on tap. So, focus your energy on serving tonnes of one type of drink instead of a wide variety to streamline things and save money on machines.

However, you need to keep quests in mind too. If your quest says you have to serve 35 bubble juices, you should make sure you get a machine for them as soon as you can. You could also bear this in mind while choosing which starter kit you pick.

You need both bubble and whisper juice to use the juice mixer, so there’s no point in getting that unless you’re planning on buying both machines too.

Play As A Team

Party Club is optimised for co-op play, and that’s made pretty clear once you start trying to run a whole pub yourself. While it’s not impossible to seat customers, make drinks, and be the resident janitor on your own, it’s certainly more challenging without help.

You can run a bar with up to four players, so teaming up with a couple of friends who all take on their roles around the club is a good way of making sure everything gets wrapped up. For example, each player could take on one of these jobs:

• Waiter
• Mixologist
• Cleaner
• Host

There are also four animals unlocked at the start, so it’s easier to keep track if everyone picks their own one.

Empty The Chest At The Start Of The Day

When you’re setting up, all of your items will be in the chest. This includes any power-ups and important tools like the hammer and mop. Equip your power-ups (after you’ve finished fighting over who gets which one) and take the hammer and mop out of the chest.

This lets you grab them way quicker once you need them. You need to have the hammer ready to start each day, and you’ll find you need the mop sooner and quicker than you might think. Leave them close to relevant items instead, such as the mop next to the litterbox.

Don’t waste time putting your tools away, either. It takes way too long to go and put the mop away just to need to unpack it again thirty seconds later.

Place Tables Tactically

You can set up your club in any way you want, including buying new furniture and placing it however you see fit. Although it can be tempting to prioritise aesthetics while building your dream bar, it’s worth placing tables carefully with your clientele in mind.

Try to put tables around the outside of the bar, with one chair angled so that animals will sit with their back to the fence – especially once you’ve unlocked the stinky skunk, who will aggravate whoever sits behind them with their smell.

It’s also much more cost-efficient to buy the small table than the medium table, and it’s unlikely you’ll be able to afford large tables at all for a while. Small tables are only 250 coins, while medium tables will set you back 600 coins for only accommodating one more customer.

Don’t worry about not being able to accommodate larger groups with small tables, either. You can just spread groups out over multiple tables and they’ll still be happy about it. Make sure you interact with enough seats for the number of critters you’re seating.

Small tables are also great when seating feral animals, like the troublesome wild wolves, since they can aggro other animals if they’re too close to them. The phrase lone wolf comes to mind.

Use A Controller For Precise Movements

You can play Party Club with either a keyboard using WASD controls or a controller. WASD controls are more challenging to use given the fast pace of the game. There’s also a lot of precision needed when grabbing items, which can be tough to achieve with a keyboard.

Using a controller makes for fewer mistakes while making and serving drinks, which means fewer broken glasses. Breaking glasses deducts points from your total, so it’s worth using the most precise controls you can.

Joystick mapping is especially useful if you plan on throwing orders to your customers, which is a good way of delivering drinks on a tight timer. The aim function is tougher to use with WASD controls.

If you are using keyboard mapping, you can move with either WASD or the arrow keys, meaning you can swap between them for the most dexterity.

Be Patient While Doing Tasks

When you’re doing things like building furniture, repairing broken machines, and pulling pints, you might notice a little circle filling up above what you’re doing. This shows how close you are to finishing off the task.

Make sure you keep doing your task until that circle fills up. Otherwise, you’ll lose all progress and have to start over from scratch. Considering how short the days are in Party Club, every second wasted is money down the litterbox, so try to avoid this.

Using power-ups can help speed up how long it takes you to finish a task, so make sure you’re equipping those from the chest.