The Jackbox Party Pack
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9960% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $7.35/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 1,928
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.4h
- To 100%
- 15.8h 4.6x the story
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 81 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 July 2024
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
81 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. 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 5 ($29.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats The Jackbox Party Pack 6 ($29.99, scores 62).
More about The Jackbox Party Pack
Of the 376 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.4 hours. Doing everything runs 16, 4.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
AVOID on steam deck. Bricked my deck with their awful launcher no one asked for. POS software. Avoid avoid avoid.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 645 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Jackbox Party Pack scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/331670/the-jackbox-party-packReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.