The Jackbox Party Pack 8
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $8.57/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 500+ / Radeon 5000+ or Greater, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $16.49. That was February 2024. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 37 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Jackbox Party Pack 7 ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Drawful 2 ($9.99, scores 40).
This site sampled 413 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 182 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 17, 4.7 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
58% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Jackbox Party Pack 8 scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1552350/the-jackbox-party-pack-8Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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