bro did 60x in 21 minutes! 🤯😱 This is only D1 of Hot Streak, you still have 27 days to play! every session is a new chance to win big, no grind required. 🥳✌️

🎪Party Icons Preseason Phase Two is HERE: Carnival Clash HOT STREAK runs June 24–July 21 🔥 Warm-up is live now on iOS, Android & PC: 🎮 Play unlimited free Carnival Clash matches 🎟 Earn Hot Streak entry tickets 🏆 Practice our fan-favorite party games before the main event Then enter Hot Streak daily sessions starting on the 24th at UTC 8:00 for a low-entry, high-upside challenge: 🎟 $2 entry ticket, unlimited runs during session 🎲 Carnival Clash party games randomly selected 🔥 Build your streak to unlock bigger rewards 💰 Stop at 3. Push to 5. Risk it all for 7. Join a partner guild (tagged below) for: 💎 Guild-only rewards & diamonds 🎮 Game nights 🔥 Moral support (crucial) Make sure you join your guild's club in-game to be eligible! Your guild not listed? Ask your guild leader to DM a team member. 🎟 GIVEAWAY TIME: 10 Hot Streak Entry Tickets Like and reply with the Carnival mini-game you’re most excited to play, check out the full library in our wiki: partyicons.gitbook.io/wiki/g… Don't wait around for the next bull, start your party now🥳

PARTY ICONS OPEN BETA PRE-SEASON servers open Monday, May 18. 👾 Seasonal Leaderboards, Bounty Hunts, and Diamond Rush events go live May 20. Jump in anytime. Every match is its own shot at winning. EKKO Alpha gave us the proof: AI Agents work. Players trust them. And when the upside is real, things get spicy fast. Players trained Agents, adjusted loadouts, chose their risk, chased bigger multipliers, and trusted AI with higher-value decisions. 37% of all sessions became Diamond sessions, with Diamond players showing 3.6x higher engagement than Gold session players. So now we’re taking that loop into Pre-Season: bigger, louder, and open to everyone. Your Agent grinds. You control the risk. Every successful extraction can pay off. No endless grind required. Markets move. Builders SHIP. And yes, Party Icons is somehow still standing — still funding seasonal play, still shipping new systems, and still giving players and communities a reason to PARTY. Join our Discord to find out how to play, get updates, and investigate how we’re still alive ❓ Pre-Season begins May 18. Drop in when you want. Extract what you can. 💎

👾EKKO Alpha was a small test, but an important one. We kept this sprint intentionally tight: 15 guilds, 5 days, because what we wanted to test wasn’t scale. It was something more fundamental: Would players actually trust AI agents enough to risk real value on them? The answer was YES. And more than that, once players leaned in, they went deep. 37% of all sessions were high-stakes (Diamond sessions), and those players showed 3.6x higher engagement than Gold session players. That’s a strong signal for us: this isn’t just a novelty mechanic. It’s a loop players are willing to commit to. What surprised us even more was who leaned in. We thought highly skilled players might resist the idea of AI playing for them. Instead, many of them embraced it. They trained agents, refined loadouts, and treated their AI as an extension of their own strategy. You can see it in the behavior -- Mask Mode almost doubled daily playtime: 253 mins vs 124 mins for regular players. AI sessions didn’t push players away --they pulled them in deeper. And yes -- the upside was real, and it got spicy fast! - 37.7x single-session payout multiplier - 17,200 Diamonds extracted in one single extraction - 165,940 Diamonds earned by the top Diamond player in 5 days These aren’t just flashy stats -- they show players were willing to trust AI, invest time into training it, and risk real value because the reward on the other side felt worth chasing. That’s what makes us so excited for what comes next: bringing the scale and energy of our CB3 X-League model together with AI-driven gameplay and a major prize pool. 💎💎 This was the first proof point. Now we refine. Open Beta is around the corner. If your guild wants in, join our Discord or hit up our team members tagged -- official partners will receive exclusive welcome packs. 🎁 Finally, thank you to all our EKKO Alpha participants and the @ekko_engine team. See y'all soon! 🫰

Meet @ekko_engine! This isn’t an AI that follows orders. This is an AI that makes calls. EKKO turns intel into decisions, weighs risk vs reward, and knows when it’s time to extract — even when you don’t. In Party Icons, EKKO can be your Marauder, your Teammate, or your Assistant. Personality defines how it plays today, and what it can become tomorrow. When EKKO takes on a life of its own, play evolves — and your game levels up.

😱 WHO CRASHED PARTY ICONS? ⚠️mayday mayday. The Partyverse has been breached. After weeks of silence (we’ve been building BETA1, okay?!), strange new guests have crashed the Party...and YOU get to decide who stays. 🕷️ 3 Ways to Join the Chaos: 1⃣ Vote for the final design of Arlo & Loomey (by Thursday Oct 23 EDT in the comments or in DC) → Comment below (or on Discord) with your pick & why: 3 lucky voters win! 2⃣ Invent backstories or skills for any of the 8 Party Crashers named and shown here (by Oct 31) → One most creative entry per Crasher wins a reward (yes, all 8!) 3⃣ Meme your favorite → Post your funniest take — the team will pick 3 winners! 👻 💀 All entries must use #WhoCrashedPartyIcons 🪦 Winners and moaar will be revealed on Nov 1 🎁 13 Beta1 Premium Party Packs up for grabs 🏆 Winning entries may be immortalized in-game… Let’s see what the Partyverse is made of. 👻

CB2 was proof of fun. CB3? Proof of community. ...and how did we do? An honest review — In CB2, our retention and playtime (in other words, stickiness) showed how we far outperformed gaming industry benchmarks and the strength of our core game loop. This season, we put that stickiness to the test: running our core game modes (Party Heist, a PvPvE extraction shooter with hero progression & Carnival Clash, 20+ casual party games with heavier RNG mix) inside a risk-to-earn event model. And once again, the community rallied — building a $214,000 prize pool funded entirely by players (okay… with a little $40K boost from us 😉). ZERO house cut. Pure risk-to-earn. Which meant — naturally — there were winners and there were losers. What the stats showed us: Stickier than ever: CB3 Day 7 retention = CB2 Day 2. 🔥 Scale & Volume: Total Match Entries: 67% increase Loot Boxes Opened: nearly 3x NPCs Killed: 2.2x Healthier player monetization: % paying users dipped, while ARPPU rose. Thanks to our Mask & Marauder role-based system distributing resources more efficiently between investors/spenders and skilled players & grinders. Our most delightful surprise? Zero to hero grassroots triumphs. the #1 Player and #2 Guild on the CB3 leaderboards were CB2 community leaders we watched grow from humble beginnings to true north stars, outcompeting (and often offering pro tips to) long-established whales 🐳& guilds ⚔️. And their triumph revealed something bigger: In Party Icons, strategy matters, but teamwork & trust are golden currencies. These leaders credit their CB3 success not just to skill, but to teamwork that crossed continents, languages, cultures, and servers. Our M&M role system and contracts made it possible — but it was the friendships forged in Party Icons that turned cooperation into victory. But it isn’t all perfect, we had a lot to learn: 1 - Stock/share mechanic too front-loaded: early buyers dominated, latecomers had no way to catch up. Lesson: dynamic adjustments to keep mid/late entries meaningful (purchase caps, late-entry perks, steeper slopes). 2 - Our punishment mechanics. We designed them with good intentions — high risk, high reward, encouraging players to think twice before making moves. But in practice, the penalties were too heavy. For highly active players, this meant enthusiasm cratered in the later stages of CB3. The rules hit different types of players very unevenly: Independent paying players (who bought tickets themselves) felt the harshest squeeze, both financially and psychologically. Guild-backed F2P marauders playing on gifted X-Pass contracts & tickets took almost no financial risk — which meant they could afford to go all-in and gamble harder. The same system ended up widening the gap, punishing some more than others. Our reflection: rules that are equal on paper don’t always land equally in practice. Next time, we need smarter balancing that accounts for player type and cost structure, so risk feels fair across the board. 3 - Some players believed playing well should equal “profit,” but strategy + investment mattered more and risk ≠ guaranteed profit. Even skilled players could lose out on their ROI if they didn’t invest wisely. That’s the harsh truth of the system, and we could’ve done a better job educating our community of the real risks and mechanism implications (and strategies). Still, fairness needs work. We’ll keep refining so every type of player — mask, marauder, solo — has real opportunity. Internally, we’re also exploring deeper optimizations in gameplay and event mechanics as we head towards BETA1 this fall. 🍂🎮🏆 The bigger picture? If CB2 proved our gameplay was fun and sticky, CB3 showed how far a strong community can go (and grow) when we give you the tools and the support. And our community of legends — united by trust, rivalry, and sheer creativity — proved that together, they can shape their own game and its future. Next up: the ceremony begins. 🏆✨ 1️⃣ CB3 Legends — OGX rewards! Lvl 7 BETA1 gift packs! 2️⃣ Top Guilds — the top 50 who are splitting the 1M $PARTY for their war chests. 3️⃣ Creator Rewards Pt. 2 — more surprises, more $RON!! 4️⃣ Top 100 Players — the seasonal hall of fame. The Party isn’t over… it’s just leveling up. 🎉