It’s fair to suggest these days that most new Fort Boyard (certainly key) games basically involve filling up a tube to release the key, the other ten percent are slide the key along a pipe. Metro is very much in the latter camp, but everything about the set-up is so good – set in an underground station Pere Fouras built between La Rochelle and New York, the contestant must enter the abandoned station and in the dark find the switch to make it operational. This a) Turns the lights on, and b) releases the key but unfortunately it also c) turns the water pumps on and d) locks the door behind them. To win they must slide the key around the course so they can use it to unlock the door and escape before time runs out.

There’s still a lot of new stuff from this year to discover, Fort Boyard continues on France 2 on Saturday nights, our discussion page is here but everyone’s rather taken to the Bother’s Bar Discord.

This was a surprise video, we only learnt of the game’s existence the other day and it only came out this afternoon. I do feel however that I’ve played enough to determine whether it’s worth your hard earned £12.99 though.

As ever, I show you a game and then you can decide for yourself. Do stick around to the end for an old-school Bother’s Bar reference.

Or make some words, whatever. The system’s quite clever to be fair, although you work bottom to top rather than the other way around to make the Connect 4 thing work.

It’s not out yet, but more details are on the John Adams site.

Out Thursday on Switch! £12.99! Video very likely!

“STAAARRRRRR, that’s what you wanted!” So sang Kiki Dee back in the day (which was also the theme to Bob Says Opportunity Knocks of course). It’s also highly relevant to the Mario Party series where the aim is to go round the board buying stars with the coins earned from regular minigames. It’s basically Raven, but the first one predates Raven.

Always the one with the FRESHEST consumer advice, the latest game in the series Super Mario Party released on Switch in late 2018 however it’s only very recently they added the option to play the actual board game element online, having been limited to a few minigames previously. Today myself, Matt Clemson and Alex McMillan try it out. We were pleasantly surprised by the lack of obvious lag (although it would have been interesting to try it with someone in another continent), I was less pleasantly surprised by being horrifically picked on. WHO WILL WIN?

Summer starts Saturday! There will also be chat in the Discord.

Fort Boyard 2021