If approaching you on the high street with a clipboard in hand just instills fear, Jackbox Survey Scramble will be the perfect horror game for a Halloween party when it launches on October 24.
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.
Just ahead of the October 24 release date, PC and Mac owners can get a sneak peek a Jackbox Survey Scramble demo available during the Steam Next Fest from October 14 to 21. That gives you access to two of the four game modes: Hilo and Squares.
This is Guesspionage, upgraded to a fully independent product. Hilo is a game where you guess the most and least popular answers, while Squares lets you sort the choices in order of popularity. The other two games are Speed mode, where you gamble against the clock, and a mode where you can intercept your opponents’ answers 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 making 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