You need bold people willing to present their fake product, making this another one that falls victim to people who don’t care/are too shy to play the game right. Patently Stupid is the drawing game this time and something like Talking Points. Split The Room is fun, and You Don’t Know Jack Full Stream is for better or worse what you’d expect from trivia but nothing special. Zeeple Dome only works with local multiplayer, and while it’s an interesting action combat game, it is a very bizarre addition to a Jackbox Pack. And really, it’s mostly down to whether you consider Mad Verse City the best or most frustrating game in the series. Nothing here is extremely bad, but they’re very dependent on how you’re playing and who you’re playing with. Much like its game Split The Room, Pack 5 is an extremely mixed bag to me. Fibbage 2 and Quiplash are legendary, though both have later, better versions in future packs. Earwax is hilarious though audience participation is extremely limited. Bidiots is an underrated drawing game with an exciting deduction aspect to it, but it’s also pretty confusing for new players. Jackbox, if you’re reading this-streamers need 16-32 players if possible!!). Like Pack 1, its greatest flaws are being old, and being so good its best ideas were iterated on.īomb Corp is very meh and has the lowest player cap in the series (Mr. Make no mistake, Pack 2 is great and it’d rank much higher on this list if Quiplash and Fibbage didn’t have better versions available in high-quality packs. I assume Quiplash and Trivia have more prompts but I haven’t worn out the original sets yet.īut if you’ve NEVER played Jackbox…well, I’d still say buy Jackbox 4 over Party Starter. The problem with the Party Starter is while it has 3 of the best games, despite the Steam description it does not improve the originals very much.Īctually, after playing it for over an hour, I couldn’t find ANY difference at all to the original games other than it has the Jackbox 8 settings menu. It’s not quite a Pack, having 3 games from OTHER packs, so I won’t give a number to it. Even its best game, Tee-KO, has a remaster in the Party Starter. Important to point out-being one of the worst Jackbox games doesn’t mean it’s a bad game! 3 is just easily out-done by more refined, later editions. A highly unbiased selection of shirts from a Tee KO round. In my experience, I always do my best to draw something good, get an awful squiggle, then someone else wins the game using my shirt design and slogan after I get 0 votes. If everyone tries to make a drawing that isn’t squiggles and puts good slogans, it’s a blast. Personally, I’m in between, it’s one of those games that is extremely frustrating unless everyone is putting in equal amounts of effort, and that is very rare as it’s a drawing game. Especially due to Quiplash 2’s awful final round.Īnd then there’s Tee KO, which you’ll either love or hate. The best games in the pack are Trivia Murder Party and Quiplash 2, which later iterations outperform. Guesspionage is an okay ‘polling’ based game but not too memorable. Similar to Pack 1, Pack 3 has plenty of great games that are just outshined elsewhere, as well as some half-baked ideas.įakin’ It is unfortunately literally impossible to play over Stream, making it an instant zero for me. But you can’t deny Drawful and Fibbage are great. It’s a bit of a shame to put the OG at the bottom of the ranking like this, but especially if you’re streaming, or if you own any other Jackbox packs at all, the original Jackbox Party Pack is unfortunately forgettable. Fibbage XL and Drawful as mentioned are great but out-shined by later packs. Lie Swatter is notable for its insane player cap, but otherwise, it’s like a simpler, less good Fibbage. You Don’t Know Jack is classic trivia, though the format isn’t my favorite compared to Trivia Murder Party or Fibbage. Half of the pack is simply unplayable with almost any stream delay at all. If you’re streaming, this is the only game with NO streaming features in mind. Jackbox 1 is by no means bad but ends up last on the list simply because the best games here are done later and better (Fibbage 2 & 3, Drawful 2). The first in a video game series will often be either the best or the worst in the series. Each Pack has 5 different games, but I’m rating on the overall quality of the full set. Note the (few) non-streamable games can be quite fun in local multiplayer. I am rating these from a Streamer’s perspective so unstreamable games will not be treated gently. Ready those Comment-Phasers below and let me know your hot takes! Deciding which game to pick up first can be a bit tricky, especially since they’re all priced about the same. With almost 50 streamed games of the series and counting, I thought I’d share some Opinions™. I don’t usually do Top X lists, but well, I’m something of a Jackbox player myself.
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