Just Dance is a rhythm game series developed and published by Ubisoft. The original Just Dance game was released on the Wii in 2009 in North America, Europe, and Australia.[1]
Just Dance is a motion-based dance video game for multiple players, with each game including a collection of classic and modern songs each with its own dance choreographies. During each song, players mirror a dance performed by dancers on the screen, following moves that appear as pictorials on the bottom right corner of the screen, and are awarded for their accuracy. Additionally, there are gold moves in which players must strike a pose or complete the hardest move in the dance in order to earn bonus points. Players are given ranks based on how well they do. Depending on the game and system it is played on, the game can be played with either motion controllers or camera devices (such as the Wii Remote and Kinect), or using an app downloaded on a smart device. The game can be played by up to six players at once on eighth- and ninth-generation consoles, as well as the PC version of Just Dance 2017 and the Stadia version of Just Dance 2020, Just Dance 2021, and Just Dance 2022, with support for a gamepad and a keyboard used to navigate the menus. This excludes Dance Crew routines for Kinect users for the Xbox One version, as well as Wii Remote users for the Wii U version, and PlayStation Move users for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions, which are limited to four players. Seventh-generation consoles and the Wii U versions of Just Dance 4 to Just Dance 2015 and the Wii U version of Just Dance 2019 are also limited to four players.
All game reviews are from Metacritic.
Just Dance: 49 out of 100[22]
Just Dance 2: 74 out of 100[23]
Just Dance 3: 70 out of 100 (Xbox 360),[24] 74 out of 100 (Wii),[25] and 75 out of 100 (PS3)[26]
Just Dance 4: 66 out of 100 (Wii U),[27] 74 out of 100 (Wii),[28] and 77 out of 100 (Xbox 360 and PS3)[29][30]
Just Dance 2014: 71 out of 100 (Xbox One),[31] 72 out of 100 (Wii U),[32] 75 out of 100 (PS4),[33] 77 out of 100 (PS3),[34] and 79 out of 100 (Xbox 360)[35]
Just Dance 2015: 70 out of 100 (Xbox One),[36] 72 out of 100 (PS4),[37] and 75 out of 100 (Wii U)[38]
Just Dance 2016: 66 out of 100 (Xbox One),[39] and 73 out of 100 (PS4 and Wii U)[40][41]
Just Dance 2017: 72 out of 100 (Nintendo Switch),[42] and 73 out of 100 (Xbox One and PS4)[43][44]
Just Dance 2018: 71 out of 100 (Nintendo Switch),[45] and 75 out of 100 (PS4)[46]
Just Dance 2019: 72 out of 100 (Nintendo Switch),[47] and 77 out of 100 (Xbox One and PS4)[48][49]
Just Dance 2020: 74 out of 100 (Nintendo Switch),[50] and 77 out of 100 (PS4)[51]
Just Dance 2021: 70 out of 100 (Nintendo Switch)[52]
Just Dance 2022: 71 out of 100 (Nintendo Switch),[53] and 83 out of 100 (Xbox Series X/S)[54]
Just Dance 2023 Edition: 70 out of 100 (PlayStation 5),[55] 76 out of 100 (Nintendo Switch),[56] and 80 out of 100 (Xbox Series X/S)[57]
Dance on Broadway: 48 out of 100 (Wii)[58]
Michael Jackson: The Experience: 56 out of 100 (Wii),[59] and 66 out of 100 (PS3)[60]
ABBA: You Can Dance: 66 out of 100[61]
On 14 January 2019, Deadline reported that Screen Gems has acquired motion picture rights to Just Dance with Jason Altman and Margaret Boykin from Ubisoft Film & Television set to produce alongside Jodi Hildebrand and Will Gluck of Olive Bridge Entertainment.[62] In January 2023, Gluck was reported to be writing the script alongside A.C. Bradley.[63] The script was finished by December 2023.[64]