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21. The Jackbox Party Pack (1-6)
Genre Online party game

Gameplay: 6
Rest of Game: 4
Engagement: 8
New to Me: 5
Playtime: 5

Total score: 28/40

Song selection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BxQcZqoGeQ

Ive joked that prior to the rise of Fall Guys and Among Us, Jackbox games should take the title for best game to play during the coronavirus pandemic. Because, I mean, how else are you going to join up with your friends and create stupid memes like pushing the phrase Where beef? through an entire tournament bracket?

Jackbox has a little bit of everything, and although a number of games are hit or miss, and inevitably the group will want to play one of the miss games like Role Models, Joke Boat, or Civic Doodle, its usually not hard to steer them back to Fibbage, Trivia Murder Party, or the game that started this craze, Quiplash. (Or, if you want to go back even before that, to You Dont Know Jack.)

In terms of substance, theres very little here. The game mechanics are stripped down. The art is often deliberately janky. The writing is perhaps the high point substantively. However, nothing can beat the way this brings eight people together over their internet-capable devices to draw horrible pictures of Edible Hair or a Missed High Five.

Should you play it?: If you can read this, you must be on the internet, which is about the only real reason I could think of to say no.

Next: An ARPG

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