Marbles Party

Marbles Party is a 2017 party game developed by Clever Game Making and published by Clever Games. It's a spin-off of the Marbles The Game series. It involves a collection of minigames in which players have to compete against to win. The game was first released as an arcade game on the Game-Fi Arcade Cabinet in 2017 before being released on consoles and PCs in 2018.

Development
Marbles Party was initially developed for the Game-Fi Arcade Cabinet that comprised of 6 minigames taken from Marbles The Game's Challenges mode, meant to be a way to play the minigames in the arcades. Clever however saw an opportunity to turn it into a full game and expand the collection of minigames even further. They included the bonus game Lasso Mayhem from the Game-Fi Phase Two,, and versions of Marbles The Game and certain missions from Marbles The Game 2.

Minigames
There are 14 sets of minigames, some of which comprise of separate modes and game types. 10 of them were available at launch, 3 were available as DLC, and 1 was exclusive to the DX version.

Main minigames

 * Grand Prix: Minigames that involve players racing around a track and have to clear 3 laps to finish.
 * Race You There: Minigames in which players have to race to the goal first.
 * Battle Arena: Minigames where players have to fight.
 * Time To Fly: Minigames involving flying.
 * Ride Gallery: A minigame where players are sitting on an aircraft together and have to shoot down enemy targets.
 * It's Whammy Time!: A minigame involving a game show where players have to not answer the questions wrong, otherwise they will be crushed.
 * Lasso Mayhem: Minigames where players have to toss a rope at dominoes to score points.
 * Hotscotch: A minigame where players have to jump over a scorched jump rope.
 * Robo Bowling: A bowling minigame in which players have to roll their marble characters towards a set of domino bots.
 * Marbles Sports: Minigames involving marble sports games.

DLC minigames

 * Marble Arcade: Minigames that are based on certain video games.
 * Marble Torment: Minigames involving dominoes using marbles as objects to use them for certain games.
 * Coloured Dominoes: A minigame involving a special game of dominoes.

Marbles Party DX exclusive minigames

 * Connectivity Fun: Minigames that use two screens.

Party Modes
Players can play games by using the minigames to get an advantage.


 * Board Rush: A mode where players have to roll the dice in order for them to get to the end of the board, similar to.
 * Hero Clash: A mode where the main objective is to rescue the Princess by being the Knight after many rounds. A player starts of being the Knight and must do a 1v1 duel against another player who wants to become the Knight. Players on the opposing side take turns fighting against the Knight and must win a minigame in order to take their armoury and have a chance to win the game.
 * Star Towers: A mode where players have to win minigames in order to create star towers to reach to the top within a limit.

Online Play
The game includes online multiplayer where there are 3 modes to play online with other players regionally or globally.


 * Pick n' Battle: A mode where players can choose either a single minigame or a Party Mode to compete with others online.
 * Ranked Battle: A mode where players are given a random minigame and have to go against random people to increase their rank by winning minigames.
 * Friendly Match: A mode where players can invite their friends for a game session. The host is able to pick a minigame and a Party Mode of their choosing.

Platform-specific play modes
The Wii U version supports the use of the for some minigames.

In a free update, the game added support for VR with the headset for the PlayStation 4 and the  Toy-Con VR Goggles for the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch version also allows you to use other Nintendo Labo Toy-Cons for certain minigames, including attachments for the Toy-Con VR Goggles. It also included a special game mode in Party Mode called "Labo Towers" which is similar to Star Towers. In the game mode, players have to use their Toy-Cons to clear minigames.

Release
The game was first released in the arcades for the Game-Fi Arcade Cabinet on 11 April 2017 and was then put onto the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Game-Fi Phase Two, Kin, and Windows on 28 May 2018.

Updates and DLC
Clever announced that the game was getting an update to support cross-platform play via Crossover and included its first paid DLC pack called the "Marble Arcade Pack". It was released on 19 July 2019. The second update which released on 12 August 2019 introduced the second and final paid DLC called the "Marble Torment Pack" and added VR and Nintendo Labo support.

Ports and rerelease
The game was ported to the Game-Fi Portable Phase Two and released on 29 June 2018.

A Gold Edition of the game was released physically on November ‎2019 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Game-Fi Phase Two, and Kin containing all the DLC content and update features.

A port for the Game-Fi X3 and Lifestyle titled Marbles Party DX was revealed and includes all the content from the Gold Edition as well as an exclusive set of minigames called "Connectivity Fun" that allows players to use a second screen by connecting their Game-Fi Portable X3 to their Game-Fi X3 or their Lifestyle phone to a second Lifestyle device. The Gold Edition was ported to the Game-Fi Portable X3. Both released on 3 April 2020.

Marbles Party VR
A standalone VR version of the game was made available on the for PlayStation VR,  for Nintendo Switch, , and  in 12 August 2019.

Marbles Party: QuickieArcade
Another standalone version of the game featuring one of the minigames included in Marble Arcade named QuickieArcade was released digitally for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Game-Fi Phase Two, Game-Fi Portable Phase Two, Game-Fi X3, Kin, Kin Pocket, Windows, iOS, and Android on 19 July 2019. The game was free-to-start, only letting the player play Shuffle with the Mixed Up game mode with the others being locked until they purchase a Full Access Pass. It was later released for Game-Fi X3, Game-Fi Portable X3, and Lifestyle Gaming on 3 April 2020.