Party Hard 2

If a player kills a person within another party-goer's sight or found close to a fresh body the witness will become alarmed and attempt to call the cops, indicating the player as a suspected for a limited period of time; requiring you to dispatch the witness or escape the location. If the NPC stumbles on a dead body the emergency services are called and corpses are body-bagged while the cops do a basic patrol which might reveal other murders. Players can hide dead bodies in a limited number of dumpsters and other specific containers to avoid detection. Players can set traps (poisoning drinks, exploding speakers, destroying dance floors, cutting down trees, starting fires and short-circuiting electricity boards) to kill and influence partygoer movement and actions.

Additional to your basic knife players have limited use weapons like swords (with an area damage), bombs and stun grenades which are collected from containers along with disguises and other collectibles. Bouncers are a stronger enemy who do not panic and will chase the player to quickly subdue them when detected. Shortcuts allow the player to escape locations quickly and evade capture, if over used the shortcut will become blocked. Partying people are generally inattentive and quick actions can take down multiple partiers before the become alerted.

Initially, you play as an unnamed man who is described as "a guy who just wanted some peace and quiet" who finds it difficult to sleep when there are active party-goers nearby. He decides to kill them all using a standard knife. There are five other unlockable characters, including a Ninja (obtained by clearing a level with no bodies found), a Policeman (obtained by completing all the levels), Katie (obtained by escaping the police 5 times in one game; also the only person available on the Miami Beach level), the Butcher (obtained by killing 20 people), and Hinter (starts the game with). Each level takes place at a party with a different theme, interactive objects, and "special guests," who are people that you call to distract/kill party guests. The completion of these levels also unlocks the storyline, which focuses on the Party Hard Killings of Autumn 2000, as detailed by Police Inspector John West.

The story starts in the present with John being interviewed in the interrogation room by a mysterious man named Darius, who asks him about the killings. His narration, as well as the game, starts in the year 2000, somewhere in San Francisco County with the killer, fed up with the noise and of a small neighborhood party. He then takes a knife and a hockey mask to start a massacre at a BBQ house party somewhere in North Beach (Salinas, California according to menu map). After he is "done" with the partygoers, he gets picked up by bikers, who take him to a ranch party in Bakersfield, and after that, he leaves to Las Vegas via a shuttle bus to a casino party and a rooftop party near Arizona.

Party Hard received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.