All you need for this is a console with Mario Kart and your drink of choice. Across your selected number of tracks, everyone must finish a certain number of drinks. For example, you might have 2 drinks each and play a total of 4 races. However, you are not allowed to drink while driving, so must come to a complete stop before having even a sip. You can’t cross the finish line of the final race without having finished all of your drinks, and the player who ends the series with the least points loses.
Mario Kart is a great combination of skill and luck, making it a great choice for new friends, as even someone who has never played the game before can still have fun with it. You can even introduce forfeits for losers, such as the player with the least points having to take a shot at the end. Whether you’ve got a brand new Nintendo Switch or a Wii that you haven’t touched in years, Beerio Kart is the perfect drinking game to bring to your flat, and a hilariously good example of why drunk driving is such a terrible idea.
With 9 different collections of party games, the Jackbox Party Packs are easily the most accessible options on this list, and can be played on everything from a PS5 to a laptop. All you need to join in is a smartphone, and the games themselves are all simple but very fun. Some games need you to type funny responses to questions while the rest of the room vote on whose answer was the best, while others might need you to give a presentation to the group, sketch up a design for a t-shirt, or write a short verse for a rap battle against your friend. A sip could be taken for every round a player loses, with the player who comes last at the end of a game having to chug a drink or take a shot. The variety of games make sure the fun lasts for hours, and the creativity of your answers allow you and your friends to all get to know each other’s senses of humour.
Whilst board games or a deck of cards are as great as ever, here's some fun video game drinking games
If you’re looking for something a little more competitive, fighting games are a great choice to bring to the party for pres. The rules are usually to take a drink for every life you lose, but as always forfeits can be added to spice things up a bit. There’s a great variety of games to choose from, such as more casual options like Smash Bros and Brawlhalla, or more competitive ones like Street Fighter, Tekken and Dragon Ball. Once you’ve all got drunk enough though, your reaction times will have dropped and any real skill will go out the window, making things much more hectic and fun for newcomers.
In reality, almost any videogame can be turned into a drinking game: have a sip every time you get scared in a horror game; take a shot for every goal you concede in FIFA; down a pint every time you die in Black Ops: Zombies. It’s an interesting way to break through some of the freshers week awkwardness, and create some great first memories with your new friends at university.