This is when Jackbox Gets Good. Instead of 2 good games, 1 mid one and 2 duds, this pack has 3 good ones, 1 mid, and only 1 dud.
Quiplash 2 - S tier - Better than Quiplash 1, worse than Quiplash 3
Trivia Murder Party - B tier - A frenetic trivia game like You Don't Know Jack but spiced up with fun minigames instead of just shouting at you. I could do without the digitally down-pitched host voice.
Guesspionage - C tier - It's Family Feud with a neon hacker aesthetic. Half the time it feels like a skillful game, and half the time they either had a flawed survey or John Q. Public is just insane.
Fakin' It - F tier - Completely non-functional over a stream, and barely functional in-person. For fans of hidden role games, Push the Button does it better.
Tee K.O. - A tier - Drawing games always have great potential, especially when the captions are player-generated too. The gauntlet format was a great idea to give the game a scoring system while maintaining a brisk pace. I have mixed feelings about the offer to print your design on a real life T-shirt at the end of each game. On one hand, it creates a memento of a joyful time that normally just vanishes, and it's a logical conclusion to a game about designing T-shirts. On the other hand, reaching a tendril of capitalism amid delight and laughter is still preying on people's looser wallets at a time of heightened emotion, and I can't find any indication of the physical shirts being ethically sourced; they don't even say the name of their printing partner, basically just "we outsourced, don't worry about it."
Quiplash 2 - S tier - Better than Quiplash 1, worse than Quiplash 3
Trivia Murder Party - B tier - A frenetic trivia game like You Don't Know Jack but spiced up with fun minigames instead of just shouting at you. I could do without the digitally down-pitched host voice.
Guesspionage - C tier - It's Family Feud with a neon hacker aesthetic. Half the time it feels like a skillful game, and half the time they either had a flawed survey or John Q. Public is just insane.
Fakin' It - F tier - Completely non-functional over a stream, and barely functional in-person. For fans of hidden role games, Push the Button does it better.
Tee K.O. - A tier - Drawing games always have great potential, especially when the captions are player-generated too. The gauntlet format was a great idea to give the game a scoring system while maintaining a brisk pace. I have mixed feelings about the offer to print your design on a real life T-shirt at the end of each game. On one hand, it creates a memento of a joyful time that normally just vanishes, and it's a logical conclusion to a game about designing T-shirts. On the other hand, reaching a tendril of capitalism amid delight and laughter is still preying on people's looser wallets at a time of heightened emotion, and I can't find any indication of the physical shirts being ethically sourced; they don't even say the name of their printing partner, basically just "we outsourced, don't worry about it."