Field manual
How to play Mimic Party
Listen to a sound, record a 4.5-second take with your microphone, then replay it and compare your score. Watch the yellow reference and green recording on the same timeline.
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Listen
Watch the complete yellow target while the reference plays from left to right.
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Imitate
After the count-in, follow the same timing while your real microphone shape fills the green track.
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Compare
Replay your take alone or with a quiet reference. The browser compares relative melody, rhythm, attacks and sound shape; the bars themselves show loudness, not musical notes.
Three ways to play solo
Just Play is a three-sound quick set with route choices. Safe gives a three-second countdown, Risk gives one second and 1.5× party points, and Focus gives four seconds to prepare. A bonus wheel appears after round two. Survival uses three lives and rising targets; a low score costs a life and moves to a fresh sound. Daily Streak gives everyone four sounds selected by the UTC date and refreshes at 00:00 UTC.
Practice, themed sets and earned looks
New here? Try one practice sound first. Listen as often as you like, then record without risking lives or leaderboard points. For a mini-show, choose Reaction Studio, Wild Voices, Rhythm Lab or Melody Club and start Just Play. Each theme draws three sounds from nine existing references, with a warm-up and finale. Finish one full solo set for First Encore, three for Headliner, or three different themes for Sound Explorer. Progress is saved in this browser; practice and skipped takes do not earn looks, and outfits never boost scores.
Hear your friends after a round
In a private online room, wait for the round results and explicitly agree to share your take. Friends can click Listen; nothing uploads or plays automatically. Each shared take is limited to eight seconds and temporary server memory, becoming unavailable after five minutes, a round change, leaving, or removal; it may expire sooner. You can remove your own take, mute replays, or hide unwanted audio for the room. Only share with people you trust: listeners could record playback. Public rooms remain score-only, and this is not live voice chat.
Play with friends
Pass the Mic supports 2–5 people on one device. For separate devices, join a public room directly from the lobby—no invitation needed—or create a private room and share its link or code. In online rooms, everyone checks the same four sounds and clicks Ready; the host starts. Each player gets one take per sound and 120 seconds to finish. Silence or a missed deadline scores zero. After each sound, anyone can advance the room. Compare your total out of 400, then optionally publish your own result to the separate multiplayer board. Online rooms share scores, not live voice chat.
Browse online rooms →Share one device instead →What the score means
The yellow and green bars show volume over time. Scoring also compares relative melody, rhythm and attacks. Your natural vocal register and timbre are not graded. A quiet reference can play during the replay, but only your original microphone take is scored. Party points include route bonuses; the community board ranks raw round totals so bonuses do not distort the ranking.
Microphone tip
Use headphones and a quiet room. Copy the sound after the countdown. Solo and local games let you retry or skip unclear audio; skipping costs one life in Survival. Online rooms lock each completed take, so check your microphone before starting.
These rules apply to this independent browser game, not the Steam game. We are not affiliated with FoliesAPP or Valve.