Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics

The player chooses a toy figurine as an avatar and assigns a favorite game to it. This allows other players to see a globe where they can pick that game. These figurines act as tutorials for the games. They can give trivia on the game such as history.[1]

The compilation of 52 games includes a variety of card, board, parlor, and toy games such as Yacht Dice, Four-in-a-Row, Backgammon, Renegade, Checkers, Chess, Dominoes, Hanafuda, President, Golf, Billiards, Bowling, Toy Tennis, Darts, and Piano.[2] Various games allow for motion control with the use of the Joy-Cons. In solo play, the player plays against CPUs if required and can change the difficulty accordingly.[3][4][5]

Multiplayer mode can be played locally in single-system play (with some exceptions) or via local wireless. A multiplayer mode called Mosaic Mode allows for multiple Switch consoles to link together to display one whole picture to display games like slot cars, where one track is displayed over four screens.[6] The game has an online mode, with matchmaking modes or lobbies with friends.

Clubhouse Games Guest Pass (known as Local Multiplayer Guest Edition in Europe, and Pocket Edition in Japan) is a free app on the Nintendo Switch eShop which includes a demo of four of the games in the collection, and allows users to join lobbies hosted by players who have the full game.[7][8]

The game was announced in a March 2020 Nintendo Direct where the trailer revealed a list of all the games available in the compilation.[9] A follow up overview trailer was released in Japan on April 28, 2020 and one in America on May 18, 2020.[10] Certain game elements can be seen as far back as the Wii U's E3 reveal trailer where Renegade, Checkers, and Chess were shown off on the Wii U GamePad.[11] Additionally, the golf courses are recreations of the nine holes from Wii Sports, which were themselves inspired by courses from Golf (1984) for the NES.[12]

Reception
Aggregate score Aggregator Score Metacritic 82/100[13] Review scores Publication Score Destructoid 8.5/10[14] Eurogamer Recommended[15] Nintendo Life [16] Polygon Recommended[17] USgamer [18] VG247 [19]

The game received generally positive reviews, mostly due to the presentation of the game, the selection of games available, the large focus for single player content, online features, and matchmaking.[20] The AI for the game was also praised as surprisingly tough.[21][22]

Polygon praised the game selection in a simple package, and the tutorials.[17] Eurogamer praised the presentation, polish, and atmosphere.[15]

Complaints included a lack of 3-to-4 player multiplayer game options, omissions of certain games, obnoxious voice acting,[16][23] and a lack of support of all Switch play styles.[20]

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