Mimic Party Guide: Tips, Sound Packs & Wiki

Mimic Party is a voice party game developed by FoliesAPP, a French independent studio, and released on Steam for Windows on August 27, 2026 — moved up to the very same day the game crossed 30,000 wishlists. The premise fits in one breath: the whole table hears a reference sound, and when the countdown ends you have to imitate it with your own voice. One take, no second chance. Every take is then played back to the room one player at a time, a local AI awards it a score out of 100, and the wheel spins. Sessions are short and loud — the official site pitches roughly ten minutes and about four rounds per party, and the host can tune the round count in the lobby, although player reviews report a cap of seven rounds and ask for more options. Between one and five players can join, online only, each one needing a microphone and, ideally, headphones.

Every round runs the same six fixed steps: the prompt plays once for the whole table, everyone records at the same time under the same countdown, nobody gets a second attempt, takes are replayed one player at a time while everyone else stays muted, the AI grades, and then the wheel turns. The scoring model is what lifts Mimic Party from a shouting contest into a skill game. The mark out of one hundred combines three dimensions — Melody, compared on relative pitch so your vocal range does not matter; Rhythm; and Attacks, the number of onsets, because one bark does not pass for three. Timbre is deliberately ignored, the entire grade is computed locally on your machine rather than in the cloud, and there is no player voting. Between rounds the wheel hands out bonuses, multipliers and sabotages — Saturation, Echo, Pitch shift, Chopped audio and the infamous Fart swap — and a sabotage you draw is aimed at a victim of your choosing: it hits their next take, docks them extra points, and they only find out who did it when their take plays.

Around that loop sits a content ecosystem. Reference sounds are picked at random across the packs you own: the base game ships with official Animals, Machines and Voices themes, and the built-in sound pack maker publishes community packs to the Steam Workshop in a couple of clicks — everyone at the table must install the chosen packs before the party starts, and the lobby shows who is still downloading. There are fourteen characters, unlocked progressively as you level, one of them exclusive to the official Discord, with an All Characters DLC that unlocks the whole roster in one click. The base game costs $6.99 with a launch discount, a free Playtest hands out keys through the same Discord server, and a bundle with the studio's earlier title Animic is also available. Reception in the launch window has been mixed and busy at once: connection and microphone complaints sit beside a TikTok wave and fifty thousand copies sold inside nine days.