Get together with your furry friends in Party Club to serve, fight, and all-around do business with customers in your very own venue. Together, you can sail from isle to isle, opening up shop in a fun variety of areas, meeting half of the animal kingdom along the way.
One of the many merits of the game is the option to completely customise your little guys with a wide range of hats, outfits, and weapons. Want to protect your bar from revellers as a steel pipe brandishing tarsier or fill the club with red panda waiters? With the in-game shop, you can do just that.
How To Change Your Avatar
You can customise your cute little creatures before your frantic workday begins or in the lobby between levels. You can change:
- Animal
- Headwear
- Torsos
- Weapon
A few things are unlocked by default, including four animals, two hats, one bodywear, and three weapons. If you want more, you’ll have to be ready to spend acorns to unlock them.
You can also run around in your birthday suit without any hats or bodywear. They are animals, after all. You have to have a weapon, though, which by default will always be the wooden plank.
How To Customise Your Character Before Joining A Lobby
When you start up a game in Online or Couch Mode, you’ll be given the chance to edit your character. Toggle the arrows to switch through which animal you are and which clothes you’re wearing.
This option appears as soon as you start forming the lobby, so you can start changing your avatar while you wait for your friends to join in with the fluffy mayhem. You can edit your character using this method until you all agree to jump in.
The toggles are labelled from top to bottom to note which aspect of your character you’re customising.
How To Change Your Character Once In A Lobby
Should you change your mind about being a partying pangolin and would prefer to play as another animal, you can easily change it up after you’ve started the game and picked which realm you’re clubbing in.
Once the game has started, select whichever realm you want to play in — such as the Old Village or Metropolis — and sail there. Wait for your character to disembark from their boat and walk off the pier onto land.
Now that you’re on land, there are two things you can do. You can walk to the building on the north of the island, where you select your level. Or, you can look out for the blue telephone box to the west of the island.
Walk into the phonebox and interact with it. This brings up a menu that allows you to completely change your character, including picking a different animal or changing up your hat.
You can only do this between levels. That means once you’ve started to set up shop, you’ll have to wait until you clear (or fail) the level to mix things up.
Although multiple players can walk into the phone booth at once, only one can actually interact with it at a time. That’s to say that even if you’ve successfully barged your way, you’ll still have to wait your turn.
Which Animals Can I Be?
When you first start out, you can play as one of four animals:
- Pangolin
- Quokka
- Tarzia
- Red Panda
You can choose which animal you play as the same way you equip hats and outfits. There are no stats differences between each animal, so go wild picking out whichever one you want to be.
How To Use The Shop
You unlock new accessories and emotes using the shop function on the game’s home page. When you first boot up Party Club, you can start a lobby or toggle through two other pages: shop and settings. Select shop.
How To Unlock New Accessories
Toggle to the shop page to see the full range of wares on offer and select Cosmetics. A sub-menu will open up where you can peruse the hats, outfits, and weapons available. This page is important for unlocking things to customise your creatures with.
Select the item you want to unlock and interact with it to unlock it. This will cost acorns, one of the in-game currencies you can earn by playing. Once unlocked, these items will be available when you customise your animal.
Some cosmetics are only available once you’ve completed a certain number of levels. When you hover over an item you haven’t unlocked, it will tell you exactly how to unlock it.
How To Customise Emotes
Emoting is useful for communicating with your co-workers during the last call rush. You can have four emotes assigned at once, which by default will be:
|
Name |
Description |
|
I Can Fix That |
A pangolin wearing a hard hat and holding a hammer. |
|
What’s In It? |
A quokka carrying a heavy furniture box. |
|
I’ll Miss You |
A crying red panda who is waving. |
|
Tilted! |
A flaming red tarsier looking angry. |
You can also unlock new emotes from the shop using acorns. Same as with accessories, you need to toggle to the shop menu. This time, select Emojis instead of Cosmetics.
This shows a whole list of emotes available for you to choose from, with 23 in total available. They all depict animals with different emotions and fun illustrations, mostly associated with things you would want to do during a workday.
This reveals some of the animals that join the game later as customers, so if you feel like that’s a spoiler, don’t scroll too far.
Navigate to the emote you want and interact with it. If you’re using keyboard controls, you can do this using WASD or the arrow keys and the spacebar. Now that you’ve done this, you can equip them.
Equip an emote by interacting again. Then, press the button you want to map the emote to and interact one more time. This is how you will use the emotes once you’re in-game.
After joining a game lobby or entering a level, you can emote using the mapped controls you set in the shop. When you use keyboard controls, this is done with the number keys or numpad, so be ready to hit 1 to 4.
Some emotes can only be unlocked by clearing certain levels, so be ready to start your clubbing empire before getting some of them.
How To Earn Acorns
You earn acorns by completing quests while running your bar. You choose which quests you will complete while picking your game’s difficulty at the start of each level.
Playing the game on Medium or Hard will earn more acorns than playing it on Easy. However, you only earn the acorns if you successfully complete the quest. So, playing more of the game on Easy to grind for acorns could be more efficient.
Pick which difficulty you play with carefully, depending on what the quests offer. Some will offer more acorns for easier jobs than others, and some can even give you new accessories themselves. The icon to the right of the quest summary will tell you what it pays.
You can redo levels just to unlock acorns. If you’ve started unlocking some tougher levels, why not go back and replay some early-game levels while you try to buy your Quokka a new outfit?
