The Jackbox Party Pack 5
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $9.09/hr
- Reviews
- 93% 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.
It’s the biggest Party Pack yet, including the return of the classic pop culture trivia mash-up YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: Full Stream; the game of hilarious hypotheticals Split the Room; the lyric-writing, robot rap battle Mad Verse City; the inventive drawing game Patently Stupid; and the outer space fling-fest Zeeple Dome.
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
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 63 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Jackbox Party Pack 2 ($24.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Drawful 2 ($9.99, scores 40).
3 of the 380 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
54% 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
140 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 03:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Voices burst with joy Every answer sparks new laughs Friends steal the spotlight
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Jackbox Party Pack 5 scores 79/100 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/774461/the-jackbox-party-pack-5Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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