Rabbids Party of Legends was the Rabbids’s first game in four years since Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and their first standalone game since 2014’s Rabbids Invasion. It was also the first title developped by Ubisoft Chengdu.

While not a narrative game, it was themed after the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West. As such, the key art emphasizes the Monkey King, with the other characters from the novel orbiting him in an elliptical trajectory.