Simple enough? Without further ado, let’s look at the individual titles in this newest entry into the Jackbox Party Pack series. Play continues until a winner is decided by the rules of the specific game you’re playing. In many cases, your prompts and inputs are hidden until the relevant moment. The game takes place on the main screen, but you’ll receive prompts, options or input opportunities to your personal device.
Every player heads to on their internet-enabled device – phone, tablet, laptop or PC – and connects using a unique room code. It functions like this: you load up the party pack on your TV and decide on one of the games to play.
The landing screen for the collection of games gives you a heads up on the details of each game – including whether or not it’s family friendly. In a big way, the goal of these collections is to create experiences that get people to laugh and learn a bit about each other, rather than encourage tight mechanical play or test intellectual ability. In some cases, they encourage you to interact with the players in meatspace. Many are similar to games like Balderdash or Cards Against Humanity, where funny answers and clever wordplay are the goal. The Jackbox Party Pack is a collection of games played through your phones and an internet connection, with the Switch working as something of a hub. Anyway, note to the reader out of the way, let’s dive into Jackbox Party Pack 5!Ĩ Hours Played // Review Copy Provided // $29.99 What is Jackbox Party Pack 5? As you scroll down, you’ll see that I’ve labeled each section – feel free to skip ahead to the part that interests you. The end result is a very long review, and not everyone is going to want to read it all. To try and deal with this, I’ll be tackling this title as though it’s almost five smaller reviews, with some overarching thoughts of how well they work as a collection near the end. Finally, some have never heard of Jackbox before and have no idea what to expect.
Others want to know which individual games are worth playing. Some readers are interested in the value of the pack as a single purchase. Reviewing a Jackbox Party Pack is something of a challenge.