What My Singing Monsters Playground is
My Singing Monsters Playground takes you to the Monster World for a tournament built out of short, fast competitions. You pick a Singing Monster and control it through 3D platforming challenges where you swing, fling and spring your way around the arenas. The whole thing is set up as a party game: rounds are quick, the goals are simple to read, and the matches are meant to be loud and messy rather than demanding. The monsters themselves are the cast, so if you already know them from My Singing Monsters, you get to move them around instead of just watching them.
How your group plays it together
Local multiplayer is the core of it. Four players can compete against each other in the same room, and the game supports both team formats and free-for-all: you can pair up for 2v2 games or split everyone up and fight for first place on your own. The competitions are spread across the Monster World, so the arenas change between rounds and the goal shifts with them. Online PvP and Remote Play Together are also listed, which gives your group options when you are not sitting on the same couch.
Modes to pick from
Three game modes cover the different ways you might want to spend an evening. Party Tournament runs the competitions as a sequence, so your group plays through a series of rounds and sees who comes out on top overall. Solo Gauntlet is the single-player route through the same kind of challenges, useful when nobody else is around or when you want to practice. Free Play lets you jump straight into the games you want without the tournament structure around them.
Before you start
It is a casual party game with cartoony, colorful 3D visuals and a family friendly tone, so it suits mixed groups and younger players. Controller support is listed, which is worth sorting out before four people sit down, since local multiplayer with four competitors needs enough input devices to go around. Expect short rounds that rotate between game types rather than one long match, and expect the format to flip between team play and free-for-all depending on the competition.