Jackbox Games has announced The Jackbox Survey Scramble, a second smaller collection of games that will bring survey-based games to the forefront when it launches in late October.
The game will be available for all major platforms including PC, Mac, Linux, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, and will have an attractive price of $9.99. A free demo will be available during Steam Next Fest from October 14 to 21.
The direct comparison that many have already drawn is with Guesspionage, one of the mini-games from Jackbox Party Pack 3, which used survey data to fill in the answers to the many questions. However, Jackbox Survey Scramble is at least that idea on steroids. The good steroids.
Jackbox Survey Scramble will include four game modes, with more game modes to be added via a free update date before the end of the year. Initially these are Hilo, where you guess the most and least popular answers, Speed mode, where you guess against the clock, Squares, where you order choices in order of popularity, and a mode where you guess the answers of your opponents. can intercept in Bounce. .
In each case, the survey data the game draws from shifts dynamically based on the answers you and all the game’s players enter into it. Come back to the game a week, a month, a year later and the same clues may yield quite different answers.
In addition to the recently released Jackbox Naughty Pack, Jackbox makes it a game with wider settings. One of the question examples is: “What’s the cutest word for a butt?” but that is not possible if you apply content filters for a lower age category. There are also plenty of streamer settings and accessibility options.
Speaking of Naughty Pack, this is the first year in a decade without a five-game Party Pack release, and Naughty Pack hasn’t managed to fill that void for us in quite the same way. An experimentally clumsy attempt to throw together more clues and games for adults fell flat. In our Naughty Pack review, Jason said: “Ultimately, Jackbox Naughty Pack is the worst Party Pack yet. […] Maybe creating our own fun and our own filth is the path to a truly naughty experience.
I hope Survey Scramble can right the ship Jackbox.
Source: press release