The party starts now. Belgian developer and publisher Balio Studio and French animation studio HARI today launch Grizzy and the Lemmings – Crazy Party, available now digitally on Nintendo Switch (Nintendo Switch 2 compatible), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam and the Epic Games Store, priced at $39.95. The launch trailer is live, and every store link is gathered on the game’s official page.
The first console game adapted from the series, Crazy Party offers 50 mini games, 6 game modes and 5 boards drawn from the show’s settings, for 1 to 4 players in local multiplayer, in 30 languages. Like the series, which has run for ten years in 200 territories without a single line of dialogue, the game is understood by watching: every round opens with a briefing in pictures and button icons.
Each player controls a Lemming. All of them are after the same thing: Grizzy’s jar of Yummy spread.
Grizzy is closing in on his fridge, and the only way to hold him off is to throw his own dinner in his face. A bear turns his back at the end of the path, and the lemmings have to creep toward the jar without being caught moving. A lemming launcher smashes down a castle, and the loot goes to whoever grabs it first. A throwing contest is held where the projectile is… a lemming. A kart race means weaving between power-ups and one badly parked bear. And multicolored chickens have to be herded into a pen they have absolutely no intention of entering.
Fridge Frenzy, Freeze or Fry!, Smash Castle, Launch Party, Drift Rush, Cluck Rush: six mini games out of fifty, six settings, six ways to fight over the same jar of Yummy.
Crazy Party is played by 1 to 4 players locally on every platform. No online play, no chat, no interaction with strangers: a deliberate choice for a game rated E for Everyone. When there are fewer than four of you, the empty slots are held by computer-controlled opponents, across all six modes and all fifty mini games.
Along the way, 32 of the 40 Lemmings are unlocked by playing (from the pirate lemming to the penguin lemming) and 150 stickers await collectors.
« We built this game with one clear goal: for kids and parents to have fun and laugh together, » says Massimo Baglio, Co-Founder and CEO of Balio Studio. « That’s what we saw throughout our playtests, and from today, it happens in your living room. »
Balio Studio was founded in Mons by three brothers, Massimo, Frédéric and Adriano Baglio, and has fifteen people today. Crazy Party is the first title the studio publishes itself.
The game launches complete. Balio Studio then plans free content updates with new mini games.
Only one thing left to do: gather the family, pick your lemming, and start the first round.
alio Studio then plans free content updates, adding new mini games.
Review codes remain available on request for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam. If you need footage of a specific mini game, name it and Balio Studio will send it the same day.
Created by HARI and approaching its tenth anniversary in 2027, Grizzy & the Lemmings is an International Emmy nominated slapstick comedy following the rivalry between a comfort loving grizzly bear and a tribe of fearless lemmings who turn his quiet life upside down. Told entirely without dialogue, the series airs in 200 territories across linear and streaming platforms, generates over two billion YouTube views a year on channels with more than ten million subscribers, and holds a place in Netflix’s Top 10 for kids aged six and over worldwide. Four seasons are available with a fifth in production.
Balio Studio is an independent video game developer and publisher based in Mons, Belgium. Founded by three brothers, Massimo, Frédéric and Adriano Baglio, the studio has fifteen people and creates console and PC games focused on accessible, family friendly experiences. Grizzy and the Lemmings – Crazy Party is the first title it publishes itself.
Adriano Baglio
Co-Founder and Creative Director, Balio Studio
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