Zeeple Dome is rightfully used as the example for Jackbox Games' blind inconsistency, but it only stands out in 5 because the rest of the pack is various degrees of heat. Patently Stupid is in the discussion for all-time greatest and Mad Verse City ain't far behind. My personal favorite!

Highlight: Patently Stupid
Lowlight: Zeeple Dome

Feels like the only Party Pack where they tied up whoever wants to fuck around and make the obligatory bad game and just... did the thing. Blather Round is, bar none, their best game-ass-game ever. And while Devils is not essential, it's sound and fun in the right conditions. Besides, it's only "easily the worst" here because of the competition.

Highlight: Blather Round
Lowlight: The Devils and the Details

Did you seriously make a party game where you can spend real-ass money to buy a t-shirt with Donkey Kong holding a pistol on it? And it says "I'm Sonic the Hedgehog!" underneath? Borderline irresponsible. The rest is good/great (maybe a little less valuable these days), but 3 was when the annual Party Pack became an essential purchase.

Highlight: Tee-KO
Lowlight: Fakin' It

A small disappointment after the smash hit of 7, but Job Job (clear favorite & potential GOAT) and Poll Mines (well-themed conversation piece) do a great job of shouldering the burden. Weapons Drawn is a fantastic concept executed very strangely. I know they probably run a well-oiled machine over there, but it's the rare example of a Jackbox game that could've clearly benefitted from some extra R&D.


Highlight: Job Job
Lowlight: Drawful Animate

The weirdest one in a while. Something feels a little uncanny about it, like the energy of the games is weaker than usual. The designs themselves are largely plain 'ol fun tho, so I can't complain too loudly!

Highlight: Fibbage 4/Quixort (tie)
Lowlight: Roomerang

Easily the funkiest of the octology, but these experiments worked out for the most part. Push the Button as of now is my favorite video game adaptation of the Werewolf/Mafia formula - yeah I said it, TTT and Among Us get the fuck at me. I'm letdown by Joke Boat and Role Models, unforch. It's inherently fun to do what they ask, but the execution needs a lot of work. They frankly don't deserve the amount of fun they generate.

Highlight: Push the Button
Lowlight: Trivia Murder Party 2 (controversial, I know)

I think the general consensus of 4 is that everything besides Fibbage 3 is a flop. This is... almost true for my group of friends. We've gotten a very bizarre mileage out of Survive the Internet. Something about the blind format with the timing of the reveal makes our in-jokes pop, I dunno.

Everything else here is not great. Another take on Civic Doodle and Bracketeering might work, though!

Highlight: Survive the Internet
Lowlight: Monster Seeking Monster (maybe the least coherent hidden role design I've ever seen, wtf)

2 is my least played of the entire series. I find the high-concept games of this pack to be really flat in execution, and Fibbage 2/Quiplash XL have been p. devalued. But if I was stuck on an island (with wi-fi and 3+ willing participants) I'd choose it over 1.

Highlight: Quiplash XL
Lowlight: Bomb Corp.

I enjoy YDKJ more than most people my age bracket (mix of nostalgia and trivia-brain, don't ask), but it's a time capsule of a game surrounded by 4 obsoleted and erased games. Wholly inessential by virtue of it being the first crack.

Highlight: You Don't Know Jack 2015
Lowlight: Lie Swatter