The Jackbox Party Pack 9

The Jackbox Party Pack 9

Fair · Multiplayer · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.8h
Value
$10.71/hr
Reviews
84% of 814 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$10.71/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 394 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Save your next party! 5 new games in 1 Party Pack: the trivia bluff-off Fibbage 4, the team test Quixort, the joke auction Junktopia, the silly guessfest Nonsensory and the reality TV game Roomerang.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 500+ / Radeon 5000+ or Greater, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 32 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 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).

More about The Jackbox Party Pack 9

2 of the 394 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.

At 2.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

57% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Roomerang is fun and Quixort is a good teamwork game but all the others are so mid.
IWunderNot recommendedafter 8.0h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
my family and I were playing with "family friendly" setting ON and a LGBTQ question came up in Quixort. LGBT is directly associated to sex, and not family friendly, unless you're a groomer. Besides, like we're supposed to know any famous LGBT people. Uninstalled, removed.
TARmeZANNot recommendedafter 2.0h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
We've played 3 of the games so far. I speak english but most of my family only speaks spanish, love that we can play finally in spanish. I just looked and found that Jackbox offers about 5 games under their "International Collection" with various languages, including spanish. Thanks to the dev's, I realize it's probably a headache to localaize to various languages, but its something that opens the game up to our...
HeySiriCall911Recommendedafter 1.3hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Jackbox Party Pack 9 scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1850960/the-jackbox-party-pack-9
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Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJackbox Games, Inc.
PublisherJackbox Games, Inc.
GenreMultiplayer
Released2022
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20