^ I'm fine with going so that my higher ups see me.
The thing that I'm uneasy about is that I've been working offsite for this company ever since I started, and I've never seen nor met any other employee from this company apart from a manager and the CEO (both only twice). I will be essentially walking into a room full of complete strangers. I am bringing my SO along, so there will be company for me, but would it look awful to not interact with actual employees? I mean if they talk to me, I sure will respond and be open, but apart from that, I just don't go to parties where there will be only two people out of 100 plus that I've only been acquainted to and not know past that.
I've been to company parties of my friends' or family's before, and since there would be a small group of us, we would pretty much just interact within our group just like nearly all the other family groups or groups of friends. Nobody seemed to interact outside of their well-known circle.