The Jackbox Party Pack 11 (PC) Review

After taking a slight detour last year for a (deliberately) dirty-minded pack, Jackbox has returned to its usual form with The Jackbox Party Pack 11, and once again proves that sometimes you don’t need to think outside the box.

Now an annual tradition, the latest crop features five original new games, mostly across the usual cross-section of “genres.” If this is your first time hearing of the series, this multiplayer game is actually a motley group of party games played on the participants’ smartphones or tablets, where they cast votes, doodle, and so on, and see the outcome of their inputs resolved on the main screen.

This fundamental premise hasn’t changed much over the years, aside from this year’s addition of a minigame that utilizes your device’s microphone. Luckily, the new games offered are refreshingly different in theme, which is nice to see from a series that can recycle its best elements a smidge too often.

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