It’s otherwise a tedious and repetitive chore with unappealing graphic design. This is the only cool thing about this game. This was clearly designed to be put on at a bar or some other gathering so people can just play a true-false trivia game and see how they rank against up to ninety-nine other opponents. JACOB’S REVIEW: This game has one cool quirk, something that no other Jackbox game has been able to replicate in seven subsequent packs: you can have one hundred players. Sorry, but this is as big of a miss as you can get. sometimes says 'In order to run this test, I've deleted Word Spud from the database.' As if it weren’t bad enough to have hosts of other games making fun of Word Spud, Spud is one of the few Jackbox games that doesn’t even have a host. Their own website brags that Word Spud 2 is “coming in 3145”, and in Push The Button, D.O.D.E. Here’s how bad Word Spud is: there are nuggets hidden throughout other Jackbox materials that indicate it is their least favorite game. JESSE’S TAKE: We are not doing F Tier, but there may need to be an exception. It makes everyone playing go “yes but what is the point of this”. It makes sense that they’d make a few games that make me go “this ain’t it”, and folks, this game? This ain’t it. Designing for a whole new medium is tricky. JACOB’S REVIEW: Look, this is the first Jackbox. Unless you shelled out dough for Drawful 2 (to reiterate Jacob’s sentiment: those bastards), Drawful is probably the only reason you are firing up this pack any more. Simple to explain to newcomers, tons of replay value, and really is the gold standard for all drawing Jackbox games. The best of what a party pack game can be. (A sequel, Drawful 2, has been released, which features new prompts, the ability to write your own, and multiple color options, but it isn’t a part of any pack because those bastards knew we’d pay for it by itself. It’s incredible this is the only Drawful entry included in a Jackbox pack, but there wasn’t really much space to improve they knocked it out of the park on the first try. This game is Jackbox at its bare essentials: simple rules everyone can understand, and fully utilizing the smart device controller. JACOB’S REVIEW: The granddaddy of the drawing games, Drawful combines Pictionary with Balderdash in an incredible illustration comprehension challenge. A ton of respect for the game that started it all, but in retrospect the transition was clunky and there is no reason to go back and play this unless you are in a situation where you only have access to Party Pack 1, and you have already played Drawful and Fibbage for like 3 hours. However, this was the first time YDKJ was playable with smart devices, so you’ll have to allow for some growing pains. These games are amusing but have little replay value, the 4-player ceiling is limiting, and the mechanics of “screwing” and the “Wrong Answer of the Game” are more complicated than they need to be. Fun trivia questions that range from pop culture to science minutia to historical content, all presented in a silly, surreal comedy format. JACOB’S REVIEW: They’ve been making YDKJ games forever, and they’re a hit for a reason. Why are you making this hard on yourself? To make things interesting, we switched up who wrote the initial reviews and who wrote the rebuttals. Our judging system was based on looking at the game and deciding if it was good (criticism is easy and fun, you guys) and the games were awarded a letter grade: That’s why Jesse and Jacob have sorted all of these games into tiers, just like those fighting game nerds. However, as great as these games are, when you’ve made 35 of these fucking things (only six of which are explicit sequels), there’s bound to be some games that are better than others. And it’s a great time! Jackbox has been there for family game nights, friendly gatherings, and even COVID-friendly remote parties, allowing you to easily change the subject from “you guys, isn’t the world crazy right now?”.

Scrabble on the PS1 is still Scrabble, but sure, whatever, Merry Christmas, Uncle Joel.)įinally, the Jackbox Party Pack entered the scene in 2014 with a simple but stunning promise: What if your phone was also a game controller? With that, we were off to the races, and Jackbox has kept up a regular release schedule, rolling out a pack of five new mini-games almost every year. (And that leaves nothing said about the video game adaptations of board games. Aside from occasional and often unintentional hits (we’re looking at you, Wii Sports), party games struggled to leave the “this is a video game for video gamers” box and enter the “this is like a board game anyone can play” arena. For decades, video gaming has tried to horn in on the “party game” market.

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