Party Hard

Party Hard is the full version of the browser game Party Hard original created as a Game Jam prototype. The player controls a character who is tired of neighbours having loud parties late at night. Instead of calling the police, he decides to take matters into his own hands and sneak into the party to kill everyone. The game contains several parties in locations all over the USA and between levels there are short cut-scenes where the story is told. The events are narrated as descriptions of the massacres, told by inspector John West who was the officer in command on the Party Hard killings.

Each party is shown as a single screen 2D environment with pixel graphics. The character can be moved around freely and the party can generally be entered from multiple directions. To win the level everyone at the party needs to be murdered, but this needs to be done in a stealthy way as alarmed guests will notify the police. Guests are killed with a knife, but this leaves behind a bloody body. The body can either be carried to a remote location or be dumped through a window or inside a dumpster to get rid of it permanently. When other guests notice a murder, they will rush to a phone to call the authorities. The character can attempt to intercept them, but this can trigger a chain of being noticed again. A police officer will arrive at the scene by car (sometimes accidentally killing guests) and he will then chase after you and perform an arrest, ending the level.