Out now — 29 October 2026 on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2
Hello Kitty Party Land

Characters and Partners in Party Land

Quick answer

The game advertises 145+ Sanrio characters and 16 who can be your partner. Official material names 24 of them through mini-game and board titles, and the rest arrive through stickers, conversations and present-icon games.

Hello Kitty Party Land advertises 145+ Sanrio characters, and the number is real in the sense that the sticker book is built to hold them. What the game does not publish is a single list, so this page does the honest version: it names the characters the official material actually names, and explains how the rest arrive.

The two counts that matter

NumberWhat it isWhere it comes from
145+Sanrio characters appearing in the gameOfficial product copy
16Characters who can be your partnerOfficial product copy
21Mini-games with a named character attachedOfficial mini-game listings
45+Mini-games in totalOfficial product copy

Those are four different things, and the game is often described as if they were one. The 145+ is a cast list; the 16 is who can walk with you; the 21 is how many mini-games the official pages have named so far.

Characters named in official material

Every name below appears in an official game or mini-game title, so none of it is guesswork:

CharacterWhere they appear
Hello KittyHost of Speedy Peeling; the face of the game
Badtz-MaruSelectable partner on Blooming Flower Festival
MarroncreamRuns the flower festival board
TiranRuns the Tropical Twilight board
GoropikadonRuns the Sparkling Neon Night board
PompompurinTEAM PURIN's Sneaky Strawberries; Jiggly Jump
CinnamorollHome Run Derby
KuromiKuromi and Romina's Rescue Mission
Little Twin StarsStellar Fishing
Tuxedo SamSlippery Gift Grab
PekkleBalloon Blowout
GudetamaPushback Panic
CharmmykittyJewel Box
MarumofubiyoriCushion Challenge
HanamaruobakeIce Cream Tower
CogimyunCom-myun-al Cleaning
CoroCoroKuririnSunflower Feast
GaopowerrooPowerful Pottery
SugarminuetUn-Deux-Trois
KIRIMICHAN.Wraparound
SugarbunniesPart-Timer Bingo
Nya*Ni*Nyu*Nye*NyonNaptime
Patty and JimmyExciting Kitchen
RominaRescue Mission, alongside Kuromi

That is 24 names attached to named games and boards, which is a floor rather than a ceiling: the other 20-plus mini-games carry the rest of the cast.

Official artwork: Sanrio characters gathered over Party Land at night

How you meet them

Three routes, all of them passive:

  1. Talk. Characters standing around Hometown and the boards hand out stickers when you speak to them.
  2. Play mini-games. Clearing a game collects a sticker for the character attached to it.
  3. Follow the present icon. In the Minigame Corner, games marked with a present icon are flagged as the ones where you can meet someone new. That icon is the closest thing to a character checklist the game gives you.

The sticker book is where "have I met this one" is answered — it lists names, not just faces. More on that on the stickers page.

Partners are a smaller club

Only 16 characters can be your partner. They are the ones who walk with you, gain friendship, and hand over special clothing. Partner selection happens on the way into Party Land, and the roster is what the partner menu shows.

The partner layer has its own page: partner friendship and special clothing, including where the special sets are found and how to swap partners mid-game.

What the game will not tell you

There is no in-game encyclopedia of all 145+, no numbered gallery, and no official published list. Anything claiming a complete roster with every name is filling a gap the game leaves open. What you can do is use the sticker book as the ledger: the names it lists are the names in your save.

If you are chasing the cast for the T-shirt, the Character T-Shirt and sticker book page explains how stickers move from the book to clothing.