Pokémon Go's new Party Play feature lets you group up, if you physically stick together

Pokémon Go has now fully detailed Party Play, a major new multiplayer layer coming to the popular monster collection app seven years after its initial release.

Party Play is designed to reward groups of people playing alongside each other in the real world, with gameplay bonuses, extra challenges and the ability to see each others’ avatars in-game on Pokémon Go’s map.

Perhaps most enticing for players is a new Party Power raid bonus, which will double the damage of Charged Attacks in the game’s popular PVE battles.

But you’ll need to stay in relatively close proximity to your fellow players while grouped up in a party. In a virtual briefing on the feature attended by Eurogamer, Niantic suggested this proximity would be roughly equivalent to the interaction radius of a PokéStop. Stray further and you will be warned you are headed too far apart.