The Jackbox Party Pack
The team behind "You Don't Know Jack" presents five guffaw-inducing party games in one pack! You're gonna need more than one party for this. Your phones or tablets are your controllers! For 1-100 players!…
The Jackbox Party Pack is an indie developed by Jackbox Games, released 18 November 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What The Jackbox Party Pack is
The Jackbox Party Pack is an indie game developed by Jackbox Games and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Amazon Fire TV, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Jackbox Party Pack is a series of party video games developed by Jackbox Games for many different platforms on a near-annual release schedule since 2014. The main series are released on an annual basis, each containing five games that are designed to be played in groups of varying sizes using their own personal devices like smartphones and tablets, working in conjunction with streaming services like Twitch which provide means for audiences to participate. As of 2025, eleven main packs have been released with a twelfth planned for release in October 2026.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy, kids and party. It supports multiplayer for up to 100 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Jackbox Party Pack holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 Ghz Dual Core or higher and 512 MB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
The Jackbox Party Pack launched on 18 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Jackbox Party Pack yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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