

The game requires 3018 blocks for a digital download from the Nintendo eShop. The game is compatible with amiibo, which have various different uses depending on the mode that is played on. This concept is retained in Mario Party: The Top 100, in the Minigame Match mode. The board designs are non-linear as well, also unlike previous boards in the Mario Party series, where players travel in a straight line around the boards. Also unlike other Mario Party games, all players move at one turn, streamlining the gameplay.

What sets this game apart from its precedents in the Mario Party series is its main mode, Toad Scramble, where, instead of players using designated Mario characters from the start, take control of a color-coded member of the Toad species and collect Mario characters around the board. The game, as with most entries of the Mario Party series, is a multiplayer-oriented party game, where up to four players compete in an interactive, digital board for the most stars.

It is the second Mario Party game released for the system after Mario Party: Island Tour, and the fifteenth game overall (twenty-second if arcade games are counted). Mario Party: Star Rush is a game for the Nintendo 3DS.
