You pretty much know what you’re going to get with a Mario Party game these days, now that the series’ most experimental phase is seemingly behind it. There’s the board games, the minigames ...

Super Mario Party Jamboree has been out on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch OLED for a few weeks now. And most Mario Party fans agree while it is not among the best Mario ...

Mario Party isn’t subtle. The popular Mario spin-off enchants players young and old with dozens of wacky mini-games strung together through chaotic multiplayer board game competition.

Mario Party tends to elicit a range of emotions. Some who have been raised on its particular brand of Star-grabbing, minigame-fueled chaos love the randomness and friction — the feeling that ...

What makes a Mario Party worth attending? Sure, it’s great to get some friends together for an evening filled with mini-games, backstabbing, and luck-based turnarounds, but it’s been a while ...

The Nintendo Switch, at seven years old, now has three Mario Party games in its collection. Mario Party Jamboree, the latest, promises to be the best. After playing it with my kids and alone ...

This is another mode that takes an idea from a previous game – in this case the Coinathlon from 3DS title Mario Party: Star Rush – and heavily repurposes it into something different. Whereas that was ...

Mario Party is not something you expect to see on ... though and instead you’re trying to get to the space with a Super Star on it, which can be bought with earned coins – once acquired ...

Furthermore, the game also brings back characters not seen since previous Mario Party titles. Toad & Toadette become playable for the first time since Star Rush, released in 2016 for the 3DS.

but certainly didn’t provide the same rush as outlasting my opponents in a minigame or being the first to buy a Star on the board. Apart from the 20-player modes that didn’t leave a huge impression, ...

The final 3DS entry for the series on our list is Mario Party: Star Rush. If you guessed that this game would break the cardinal rule of ditching the board game setup, you deserve a star yourself.