It’s the hit zeitgeisty game that’s exploded into popularity recently (although it’s actually been out for two years), a crew of people try and fix a spaceship, but one (or two) (or three) people are imposters and must try and kill the crew members without being detected, whether face to face or by politicking their way out of lynch mob ejection votes. Wie is… De Mol?

This was great fun and we’ll probably do more sessions in future – I was thrilled that we had almost a full house. In this video you’ll get everything from my perspective, and my commentary – during the game you’re on mute except for voting discussions so whilst you’re going about your business or are dead you can’t communicate with the others, so they won’t have heard anything I was saying.

The video comes from the perspective of someone who has seen a few vids but hadn’t actually played before. It’s clear that 1 vs 8 is a really difficult situation for the imposter, but 2 vs 7 is much less clear cut. We play five or six games as each one is quite quick, enjoy.

Right, hopefully you’ll see a padlock in the address bar now – I’m due to pay my biennial server fee so thought I’d take the time to sort security and stuff out. Let me know if you have any issues.

Right then Gang, free Sunday night from 9pm UK? I’m hoping to be recording a Bother’s Bar Plays Badly of hit zeitgeist hidden betrayal game Among Us.

We can take up to ten players, we need at least four. You will need:

• A copy of the game – either on Steam (£3.99) or mobile (free).
• Discord, as that’s where we’ll be chatting. Join the Bother’s Bar Group – link on the right.
• A microphone.

This will be open to anyone who turns up, as I always say it’s a privilege not a right so I’ll just kick you if you’re being a nuisance/beating me. As games seem to be quite short we might get a couple in – plan for a 60-90 minute sesh – drop in and out as you please, if more than ten turn up it’ll be fastest finger with the room code. I will mute the server during gameplay and turn it on again for eviction discussion/post game grumbling/whatever. The video will go up the next day.

You don’t need to book a place, just turn up in the Bother’s Bar Among Us Discord voice chat.

If it goes well we’ll probably do a Town of Salem night in the near future (which is literally Werewolf), although probably not until after Bother’s Bar Game Night 20 on Saturday 17th October.

Well THIS might be fun. Requires 8+ people, perhaps we’ll “do” a virtual Bar trip.

Bother’s Bar Game Night 20 returns for its annual Champion of Champions on Saturday October 17th – two days after Jackbox 7 gets released.

As it stands, most of the previous champions during the last year can make it (including you, Team Audience!), however there’s one person who might not be able to make it lockdown permitting so I’m giving myself plenty of time for contingency.

Have you been or are you a champion at anything? Or is there something you’ve hilariously failed at? And will you be free to play from 9-11:30ish on October 17th? Get in touch.

Thanks to Luke S for alerting us to this in the comments, Netflix have a singing gameshow called Sing On, co-created by Friend Of The Bar Stuart Shawcross (they’ve actually got a couple of foreign language versions which have been on for a few weeks, but the English language one started recently). It’s Singstar meets Weakest Link effectively, six singers add money to a group pot by hitting notes correctly on some well chosen karaoke classics, for the first three rounds they each vote someone off (with immunity for the person who did the best), final rounds eliminate the voting and it’s solely decided by the computer judge, winner wins the pot (up to $60,000).

Being America, everyone basically goes straight for the throats of the competition from the off (which suggests the money needs rebalancing a bit), but it’s light and decently entertaining, lots of shouting and mugging to the camera effrevesence from host Titus Burgess, decent upbeat tune selection. Think I’d prefer a running cash total for the song as the notes are hit as the demo seems to suggest but there we are.

And just thirteen years after Ben Shephard/Denise Van Outen sung for SAM on Who Dares Sings.