Usual disclaimer that my experience with Jackbox is entirely dipping in and out of games at random with my friend groups, so my reviews are based only on the games I've experienced until I potentially update with the ones I haven't gotten to try yet.

I really enjoyed Trivia Murder Party - I didn't expect to, as I find the more personal games more enjoyable than the plain objective trivia ones and I didn't think I had a lot of general knowledge, but through pure blind instinct I've never lost a game of this, so I must be doing alright. The little minigames between each round are surprisingly fun and nicely varied.

Push the Button is one of my favourite Jackbox games of all time; Among Us-esque, but with much more to do and a pretty broad range of minigames. It can get heated, which is saying a lot because I'm very chill and not competitive at all, so if you're someone who gets fired up over games this may set a burning rage aflame within you, and the timer can make things stressful - I find that with a certain number of players the timer just doesn't feel like it's long enough to have any fair chance at deducing the imposters' identities through all the games because there are just too many people to thoroughly test, particularly when hacking and thus the uncertainty of any task failure comes into play. I enjoyed most of the minigames enough to actively look forward to being selected for testing. Overall, pretty creative and gameplay-heavy (as long as you're not being neglected in being chosen for games).

Not a fan of Joke Boat, personally. This game got complete crickets from all of us, and, not to suck the dick of everyone in my friend group including myself, I don't think it's because we're not funny people - every other game we've tried consistently gets us crying with laughter. The prompts on this one are just so, so bad, and I did not see a single good opportunity for a clever joke throughout this entire thing.

Reviewed on Nov 19, 2023


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