Boardwalk

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Boardwalk
Koth boardwalk.png
Basic Information
Map type: King of the Hill
File name: koth_boardwalk
Released: July 24, 2025 Patch
(Summer 2025 Update)
Variants: Laughter
Developer(s): Aeon "Void" Bollig
Juniper
Cody "MasterGir" Littlefield
Liam "Diva Dan" Moffitt
Freyja
Zoey
Benjamin "blaholtzen" Blåholtz
Map Info
Environment: Carnival
Setting: Daytime
Hazards: Crocodiles
Bot support: Yes
Map Items
Healthico.png Health Kits: Smallhealth.png ×6  •  Mediumhealth.png ×7
Ammoico.png Ammo Boxes: Smallammo.png ×6   •   Mediumammo.png ×4   •  
Largeammo.png ×2
Map Photos
Loading screen photos.
Map overview
Boardwalk overview.png
Map Stamp
Item icon Map Stamp - Boardwalk.png
Supporters Leaderboard
Need to get out and unwind this summer? Tell your worries to take a long walk off a short pier - because you're heading to the BOARDWALK!
Boardwalk publicity blurb

Boardwalk is a community-created King of the Hill map released during the Summer 2025 Update. It is set in the Laughing Tides Amusement Park and Boardwalk, a carnival built on a beach boardwalk.

Boardwalk was contributed to the Steam Workshop.

Locations

Pictogram comment.png The following locations are described from the BLU perspective.

  • Spawn Area: the teams spawn on opposite ends of the boardwalk. Each Spawn Area has two front doors side by side and one side door to the right, as well as a Shooting Gallery: Badlands Bandito for RED and Pirate's Plunder for BLU. Players who stand on the footprints on the ground and shoot the opposite team-colored targets until all the lights in the back are lit receive a Halloween pumpkin.
  • Spawn Yard: the area directly outside the Spawn Area, with four paths to take. On the RED side is the Bottle Buster and the Gift Shop; on the BLU side is the Pumpkin Smash and the Arcade.
    • The far left path takes players to either the Battlements or the exit of the opposite team's Tunnel and Conveyors. On the RED side are a queue area at the entrance and the Hall of Mirrors and Milk Toss in the lower area; on the BLU side are some bumper cars at the entrance and the Can-Can Ka-Blam and Bananarama in the lower area.
    • The middle left path is an S-shaped corridor with an exit protected by a glass window, from where players can safely see the point's surroundings, and the shortest path to the point. On the RED side is the Robotic Sideshow, where players can hit a mechanical Merasmus head for a misfortune telling; on the BLU side are the Real Live Crocodiles.
    • The middle right path is a simple turn that leads directly to the front of the entrance to the Conveyors.
    • The far right path is a straight corridor that leads to the team's Tunnel.
  • Battlements: a small perch overseeing the entire control point area.
  • Covered Exit: the exit of the far left path is protected by a curved wooden wall, and offers quick and easy access to the other team's Tunnel and Conveyors.
  • Tunnel: a long and curved passage around the point that leads to the other team's side of the map.
  • Conveyors: each team has a building on one side of the point with an accessible second floor, which consists of two rooms with windows overseeing the point connected by a catwalk over two conveyors that toss any players that get on them onto the point. RED's building is the Sawmill of Love; BLU's building is the Mad Manor.
  • Control Point: the Control Point sits on a raised platform, which is a bit higher than the surrounding area. Holes on the platform drop players onto the crocodile-infested waters below the boardwalk.
  • Underpass: a passage beneath the point connecting the two sides of the map.

Boardwalk Barker

The Boardwalk Barker is voiced by Cody "MasterGir" Littlefield

Idle
Leaderboard class scout.png  Taunt Scout
Leaderboard class soldier.png  Taunt Soldier
Leaderboard class pyro.png  Taunt Pyro
Leaderboard class demoman.png  Taunt Demoman
Leaderboard class heavy.png  Taunt Heavy
Leaderboard class engineer.png  Taunt Engineer
Leaderboard class medic.png  Taunt Medic
Leaderboard class sniper.png  Taunt Sniper
Leaderboard class spy.png  Taunt Spy
Achieved.png  Win
Health dead.png  Lose
Killicon skull.png  On hitting the speaker

Strategy

Main article: Community Boardwalk strategy

Update history

July 24, 2025 Patch (Summer 2025 Update)
  • Added Boardwalk to the game.

July 26, 2025 Patch

  • Fixed players being able to spam the Barker's voice lines when approaching the shooting galleries.
  • Fixed a set of missing handrails.
  • Improved ambient lighting.
  • Fixed missing shoreline visible from the far end of the pier.

July 30, 2025 Patch

  • Fixed being able to smuggle enemy Spies into spawn.
  • Reduced ambient soundscape music.
  • Added new voice lines for the Barker.
  • Fixed a visible hall-of-mirrors error in the water by the Sawmill of Love.
  • Fixed visible nodraw under the shoreline boardwalk.

August 5, 2025 Patch

  • Fixed a missing window in Mad Manor
  • Restored missing signage along the shoreline boardwalk
  • Fixed the funhouse mirrors breaking under extreme circumstances

Trivia

  • The Boardwalk Barker has several voice lines that contain references to multiple pieces of media:[1]
    • The line where he hums the chorus of the Toreador Song is a reference to the video game Five Nights at Freddy's where a music box version of this chorus is played shortly after running out of power.
    • The line "What are you gonna do with that big bat? Gonna hit me? Better make it count! Better make it hurt! Better kill me in one shot!" is a reference to a meme of an anthropomorphic baseball saying this same line.
    • The line "Aren't you that guy with a dollhouse? Maybe that's someone else." is a reference to streamer Jerma985, with the mention of a dollhouse referring to his The Jerma985 Dollhouse livestream event.
    • The line "Hellooooo nurse!" is a reference to the catchphrase Yakko and Wakko say whenever spotting the character Hello Nurse in the 1993 animated series Animaniacs.
    • The line "Take your best shot, doc! Like they say, nothing ventured nothing gained!" is a reference to a line Dr. Coomer speaks in the first episode of the Youtube series Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware.
    • The line "You missed that one. Try another!" is a reference to a line spoken by an elderly prospector in the game Mad Dog McCree. It also is a reference to a popular clip of the streamer Jerma985.
    • The line "Eyy ya missed pal!" is a reference to the line spoken by a carnival worker working a ring toss game in the video game Dark Seed II.
    • The line "I'll get you for that. Make it look like an accident too." is a reference to a similar line from the The Cat in the Hat where the Cat says "I'll get you, and it'll look like a bloody accident".
  • The maps Boardwalk and Mannhole take place in the same general area. This is directly alluded to with the city Mannhole takes place in being a part of Boardwalk's skybox.[2]

Gallery

References

  1. Creator confirming references
  2. Creator confirming the city in Boardwalk's skyline is Mannhole's setting.