The Jackbox Party Pack 9

The Jackbox Party Pack 9 brings five party games together in one collection: Fibbage 4, Quixort, Junktopia, Nonsensory and Roomerang. The group looks at a shared screen and uses smartphones, tablets or computer browsers to answer, draw or vote.

Depending on the game, one to ten people take part. Instead of the same rules throughout, each round offers its own mix of bluffing, knowledge, creativity and role-play comedy. Play times are roughly 20 to 30 minutes.

The Jackbox Party Pack 9 was released in October 2022. Jackbox Games gives October 20 as the release date. On Steam and the German PlayStation Store, it is listed as October 19, 2022.

In February 2023 the package also received the full German language version on Nintendo Switch, which had previously appeared on the other major platforms.

The game was released for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. A standalone version for iPad is also available.

PC supports Windows, macOS and Linux. The iPad app is not an iPhone version. The Nintendo Switch version can be played on Switch 2 via compatibility, without a separate Switch 2 release having come out.

One person starts the chosen game on PC, console or iPad. Everyone else opens jackbox.tv on their own device, enters the room code shown and chooses a name. They then receive their individual inputs in the browser, while questions, votes and results appear on the shared screen.

Each player does not need an extra console controller. An internet connection is required to join via jackbox.tv.

All five mini-games are part of the full main game. Fibbage 4, Quixort, Junktopia, Nonsensory and Roomerang do not need to be bought separately. Earlier Jackbox Party Packs are also not required for the shared evening.

The multilingual version was added as a free update. Separately sold package collections with other Jackbox games are not additional content for the ninth pack.

The Windows minimum requirements list a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB RAM, a GeForce 500 or Radeon 5000 graphics card and 3 GB storage. For the recommended specs, Steam lists a quad-core processor at 2.33 GHz, 8 GB RAM and a GeForce 600 or Radeon 6000 graphics card.

The original description still lists Windows 7 and 8.1. The current Steam client requires at least Windows 10. For macOS and Linux, Steam lists its own system requirements.

Fibbage 4 is a bluffing game for two to eight players. Participants write believable-sounding fake answers to unusual questions. Points are awarded both for spotting the truth and for tricking others with your own fib.

New features include video questions and another variant of the game. The questions and lies appear on the main screen, and voting is done on your own device.

In Quixort, up to ten players arrange answers on a scale or in the correct order. Terms drop from above as blocks into a kind of sorting machine. The team has to decide where they belong before the arrangement falls apart.

This mode can also be played alone. The task then is to sort as many answers correctly, one after another, as possible.

Junktopia is for three to eight players. A wizard turns the participants into frogs, who must break their curse by trading strange finds. To do so, they invent stories and sales pitches that make ordinary objects seem as valuable as possible.

The group votes on the most convincing pitches. Creativity and humour matter more than factual knowledge.

Nonsensory combines drawing, writing and estimating for three to eight people. One player gets an unusual term or task and has to create something that sits at a certain point on an absurd scale.

The others try to work out where the answer falls between the two endpoints. Whoever better judges the tone or the drawing of the other player earns points.

Roomerang has four to nine players act as characters in a fictional reality show. Across several rounds, they react to tasks from within their roles, compete for the group's attention and vote out other players from the competition.

Being voted out does not necessarily mean being eliminated for good, though. Characters can return to the story and bring new twists and further conflicts.

Depending on the mini-game, the cast ranges from one to ten people. Fibbage 4 is designed for two to eight players, Quixort for one to ten, Junktopia and Nonsensory for three to eight each, and Roomerang for four to nine.

In several games, an additional audience can guess and vote. Jackbox Games says up to 10,000 people can join in audience mode. Not every round offers the same ways to influence the result.

For a round over the internet, only the person starting the game needs to share the main screen. Everyone else sees the prompts through a video call or stream, for example, and keeps entering their answers at jackbox.tv.

Room codes, manual moderation and the option to remove individual players help with larger groups. Family-friendly settings and subtitles are also available.

Yes, all five games are fully playable in German. A free language update also added French, Italian, European Spanish and Latin American Spanish. English is still included.

The additional languages were added only after the initial release. Since Feb 27, 2023, they have been available on all major platforms, according to Jackbox Games. This also translated the text and many language-dependent game elements.