The Jackbox Party Pack 3
This pack is my Close 2nd Favorite Jackbox Party Pack, with Party Pack 2 being #1. The trailer is right, this pack is truly INSANE. From Designing Custom T-Shirts, to Trying to stay alive while answering trivia questions, to answering silly prompts such as “An item on every pervert’s grocery list”, this pack is bound to thrill you, make you laugh, and get hours of fun worth! This pack is definitely worth all the money! This pack is home to Fakin' It, Quiplash 2, Guesspionage, Trivia Murder Party, and Tee K.O.
– Real player with 72.1 hrs in game
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Since there are 5 party games in one game I’m going to be reviewing them all and thankfully for me, I have tried out all the games whether that be sacrificing my friends' time to play some of these games or playing it with my family members.
Let’s first start off with Quiplash 2: Whether it be family members, college mates or steam users this game is crowned as the best thing in existence. This just like the first predecessor is really fun and enjoyable, there are lot of new things that haven’t been introduced in the first game, such as the fact that you can create your own prompts, I have so far 2 episodes I made with a lot of crazy prompts such as “help! A gargoyle stole my cheese pizza”. There’s also new weird characters that you randomly play as such as a weird turqoise cat or a gray vampire coffin or a yellow (demonic voiced?) star. They also changed The Last Lash level, instead of getting a prompt you’re given either an acro prompt, a comic prompt or a word prompt and not only that players award the answers in medals so that is something new.
– Real player with 48.1 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 2
DISCLAIMER: This review is written by a European player. My opinion might (and probably will) differ from a player from this game’s target audience: The American player base. Please also note that this review was written in 2020, as though several other packs have released after that.
Do I recommend the Jackbox Party Pack 2?
- Yes, absolutely.
Individual game review:
Fibbage 2:
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A classic of the Jackbox Games.
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Better than the 1st one.
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Possibility to trick your friends to win.
– Real player with 58.3 hrs in game
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Ah, Party Pack 2, Easily earns the #1 Spot in order of favorite pack out of the three. This pack’s filled with gems, and honestly, there are more games that I’d give a higher rating here than in 3 and 1 combined. Each and every game in this pack gets a high rating from me. Let’s begin, shall we?
Bidiots - 9.3/10 - Bidiots is my 3rd Favorite Game made by Jackbox, with first being Tee K.O, and 2nd being You Don’t Know Jack. Bidiots is an absolutely hilarious take on art auctions. I have no clue what I’m doing, and neither does anyone else I play with, but it is oddly very competitive and addicting. Draw 2 Drawings based on silly prompts you’re given (much like Drawful), and then let the auction commence! Each person has an art professional on their team that will tell them three paintings worth a big sum of cash. But since this is Jackbox, you’ve gotta try and guess which of those paintings you’re seeing at the moment, or if you’re not seeing a valuable one. Are they saying the beer bottle painting is worth a good sum of cash? Haven’t seen a beer bottle and you’re over halfway done? Shucks man, that beer bottle you’re looking for could’ve been that penis-looking painting you didn’t bid for 10 minutes ago! We’re not done yet though. The host has a hilarious British accent, this game takes the Screws from You Don’t Know Jack which you can use once per game, forcing the person you use it on to bid on artwork. Best of all, there is a loanshark company in this game with the catchiest jingle you’ve ever heard. Dammit Jackbox, I played this game for the first time in December, and I still have the Predatory Loans Jingle in my head! Anyway, this is an absolute masterpiece, and it takes the cake for this pack with Earwax JUST behind.
– Real player with 39.5 hrs in game
Quizee - Games for Parties and Twitch!
Quizee is a Trivia based party game that can be played locally with friends, or online with a Twitch community!
If you’re a streamer on Twitch, then get your community involved! Link the game with your Twitch chat, and your community can type their answers to the questions to compete to see who is the smartest in your community!
If you want to play with your friends, hook up gamepads and play locally!
Choose from a variety of categories to be quizzed about each with their own question sets, as well as changing how much time you have to answer each question and the length of the quiz.
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The Jackbox Party Pack 4
DISCLAIMER: This review is written by a European player. My opinion might (and probably will) differ from a player from this game’s target audience: The American player base. Please also note that this review was written in 2020, as though several other packs have released after that.
Do I recommend the Jackbox Party Pack 4?
- Yes, get it ASAP.
Individual game review:
Fibbage 3:
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A classic of the Jackbox Games.
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Very cool visuals
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The main mode is as fun as the other games with a definitely better 3rd round.
– Real player with 93.0 hrs in game
You know the drill, lets take a deep dive into each game individually and check it’s strengths and weaknesses.
FIBBAGE 3: (2-8 players)
Its Fibbage, but super duper swanky. In case you haven’t done this before, you get a fact with a part missing and you type in a lie to hopefully fool everyone else into picking it over the correct answer. But back to the visuals: Seriously, in the party pack it missed it got a HUMONGOUS visual overhaul. Gone is the super duper gray style of 1 and XL and the green and light purple of 2, in 3 it goes for a 70’s look, and its very pleasing on the eyes. You may also get a random question in between games. So far I’ve gotten Russian Fibbage, Celebrity Social Media, and Time to Look at this. These questions provide a unique twist in the questions seen in the game. Russian Fibbage has you learn new Russian phrases, Celebrity Social Media (yes i sang the tune in my head as i typed it) is predicting whatever Kim Kardashian says that she can do now, and Time to Look at this involves a picture in the question, usually an obscure art piece. It provided me with a much better experience than Party pack 2 did.
– Real player with 54.1 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 5
Mad Verse City: 10/10
Patently Stupid: 9/10
You Don’t Know Jack: 7/10
Split The Room: 6/10
Zeeple Dome: 3/10
Price: 25 USD / EUR
Verdict: Amazing game for parties or with friends online,
Grab it on a minor sale or even full price
What is the Jackbox Party Pack and how do I play it?:
Each edition of the Jackbox Party Pack contains five minigames. To play, only one person needs to own the game. That person needs to either stream it on a monitor if you’re playing with friends in the same room, or stream it via Twitch / Discord Screen Share etc. Players then watch the stream while entering answers to prompts via the website jackbox.tv on their mobile device or pc browser.
– Real player with 76.5 hrs in game
Ooh boy, here we go. A party pack with a MIXED review? Well, lets dive in!
YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: FULL STREAM: (1-8 players)
The game with High culture and Pop culture collide! Not to sell out to Binjpipe or anything, but I had a bunch of fun with this game. Being my first dive into the YDKJ games, I had fun with most of it. The questions are weird, the few times I had other people in game the screws get super wacky, and Dis or Dat is a pretty fun question type. Which leads into the worst thing about it: question types. Most of them are good, except for one. The flickerpiss nosecum gibberish question. God damn I hated this so much. It was just super annoying, and after 20 of these fuckers, I FINALLY got one right. (Wont feta bread slugs fight: Don’t let the bed bugs fight) And another problem I had is that most people don’t really do JackBox for the Trivia games anymore. I mean Trivia Murder Party was pretty good, but that’s as far as most people will go with short attention spans. Good thing it supports 1 players, since that’s the majority of my time playing this game was with myself.
– Real player with 75.6 hrs in game
The Ultimate Trivia Challenge
While the game is fun and addicting, it is also very frustrating as some of the answers do not correspond with question. An example would be… Who was the 42nd president and it would give you multiple actresses to choose from. In the spelling catagory sometimes the answers would have the same answers. However, if you chose the right answer it would be considered wrong because you picked the “wrong” box
This game needs a serious overhaul of it’s answers.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
I think this is a fun trivia game, I love the party mode and was able to stream it on Mixer without a problem. My favorite mode would have to be the sound bites. I was able to play this game for over 3 hours without getting bored or having things seem repeatitive. My friends and I laughed so hard at each others rushed wrong answers. We truly had a lot of fun playing it. The biggest issue with this game if I am to be honest is the amount of errors it has in it. Spelling, grammar, not correct options, wrong answers, etc. I think it takes away from the game a bit but in the end for $5 it’s still fun to play with friends.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
YOU DON’T KNOW JACK Vol. 2
Volume 2 is technically the third stand-alone You Don’t Know Jack game, the second being YDKJ Sports. Much like volume 1, the humor is the driving force behind the game along with the trivia. A few new features have been added to distinguish it from volume 1, such as the introduction of DisorDat and Celebrity Collect Calls, that keep the game fresh. Like the previous installment, this is a sound purchase for trivia masters, comedy lovers, and almost anyone else.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
The game lives up to its name because I stink. The fact is you have so much fun you don’t even care how much you’re in the hole. You don’t know jack is based on a game show (MAKE A LIVE TV GAME OF IT, WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE) lmao. Get to know the game and play it often. One rule: if you don’t know the answers I wouldn’t guess. The host is really up for proving the motto.
– Real player with 12.0 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 6
As per usual, this party pack follows the trend of a couple amazing games and a few forgettable ones.
That being said, the good games in this pack are really fucking good.
Trivia Murder Party 2 is an overall improvement from the original. The kill rooms are more unique, the questions are harder, and the race at the end was made just a tad more difficult. Is it better than the first? Up to you, but mostly, yes.
Dictionarium is… boring. It’s a game about words, you make definitions, then you make new words based on the definitions. It’s like a literature nerd’s take on the game Telephone, but it just doesn’t make the cut.
– Real player with 154.0 hrs in game
Yes. Yes. Yes.
The Jackbox Party Pack 6 nails everything perfectly. The perfect trivia game, the perfect word game, the perfect deceit game, the perfect joke game. Everything about this pack is bliss. I’ll go over each game individually.
JOKE BOAT - The joke spewing comedy club, Joke Boat. Good visuals, fun music and host. Only drag to this game is it’s length, but it depends on the crowd you play it with. Overall pretty good and funny.
TRIVIA MURDER PARTY 2 - The long awaited sequel to the long beloved game. This sequel balances out the imperfections of the original by making Killing Rooms easier to survive and more fun to play through. Sometimes I hoped to get a question wrong to play! The music, visuals, style, and feel make this the perfect sequel to a perfect game.
– Real player with 41.3 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack
A whole (insert unit) of fun. Get your friends together for some fun. I guess I’ll be like everybody else and break the 5 games down one at a time.
Word Spud:
The general consensus is that this game is bad. There’s a reason for that, it’s because it is bad. You’ll play it once and then it’ll turn into a Bad Rats-style joke. The game I played devolved into my friends and I typing “gay Alexis is gay” over and over. 2/10 standard rating 10/10 from IGN.
Lie Swatter:
A mediocre game that you won’t play much. True or false gets boring after a few rounds, even with categories like “Shaq rap lyrics” and “butt holes.” (Those were the actual two final round topics I first got.) 5/10 standard 10/10 from IGN.
– Real player with 22.8 hrs in game
I bought this game on a Steam Sale, but, trust me on this, the Jackbox Party Packs are worth the full $25. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve packed my laptop to a house party JUST FOR THIS GAME, I’d have enough money to buy the trilogy. You just need your laptop and an internet connection to start it up. Listen, the game uses your phone as the controller, which means literally every single person you ask to play with you immediately have a frame of reference for how it works. That’s priceless. No teaching controls, no explaining mechanics, just “look at the TV, go to that site, enter the code.” I don’t care if you have an Android, iPhone, or cheap knockoff iPad; if you have an internet browser, you can play this game. The games offer the prompt, then your phone’s browser lets you submit your response. Super easy. I’ve seen socially reserved people suddenly become the funniest f***er at the party, not because they’re social butterflies, but because they were witty with their lies on Fibbage.
– Real player with 22.7 hrs in game
YOU DON’T KNOW JACK HEADRUSH
HeadRush is an interesting experiment by the Jellyvision gang. Basically, it’s You Don’t Know Jack but with trivia geared towards 90’s teens, and it works. It’s a little quirky by having the players be color-coded and able to choose from a selection of 6 avatars, and the cash is, for the most part, multiplied by 10 from the YDKJ values. Bob (or as I like to think, Guy Towers under a different name) is a good host and fits perfectly. Get this if you want to challenge your brain.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
I like this spin-off of the “You don’t know Jack!” series so much. The questions aren’t THAT difficult like in the other Jack titles, but yet still challenging.
I refused to type my name in the field once, so I received the name “Butt Cavity”. In the other Jack game (I think it was Part 1) I was called…“Small Member”.
! No, it’s not small…honest!
11/10 better than “Who wants to be a Millionaire?”
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game