Jackbox Games, the creators behind the popular smartphone-controlled party games, announced today that Jackbox Party Pack 8 will be out next month. The eighth installment was first 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:announced back in March.
The new collection of trivia and party games will launch on October 14 for PS5, Xbox Series X and S, PS4, Xbox One, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, and PC. Jackbox Part💯y Pack 8 will have five new games, including a sequel to the popular Drawful series.
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- Job Job: A twisted interview game where you use other players’ answers to score the job. Who knew getting a job could be fun AND chaotic? (3-10 players)
- The Poll Mine: Jackbox’s very first head-to-head team game! Trapped in a magical mine with no way out, try to correctly rank your group’s poll opinions and escape. (2-10 players)
- Drawful: Animate: This exciting new spin on the classic Drawful **introduces animated gifs that you can create. Watch out for those tricky decoys! (3-10 players)
- The Wheel of Enormous Proportions: The ultimate game of trivia and chance. Doesn’t everyone love a game with a giant, shiny, spinning wheel? (4-8 players)
- Weapons Drawn: The game where trust is nonexistent. Can you hide your murders while solving others? Get ready to point those fingers because everyone but you did it! (4-8 players)
The most exciting new game here for fans of the party game series is likely Drawful: Animate, which seems to take the same concept of the original games — think Pictionary with prompts from your friends — with the added capability of drawing multiple images that play in a sequence. This looks like it could be used to make crude animations or even present a micro-storyboard. The potential seems vast — provided you're up for drawing out images on your phone or tablet.
As the new pack's name would imply, Jackbox Games has a catalog of seven other excellent packs of multiplayer games. Besides watching a screen, you interact with the game mostly through a browser on your phone, so every game is easy to set up, and you can play both locally or over a video call. While there are usually designated must-have games from each pack, every collection has a healthy spread of trivia, creation, and comedy games, so it's hard to go wrong with buying any single one.