We could all use a little laughter in our lives lately. Some examples of events weve helped support include: Orientation nights. Suffice it to say, while Jackbox games aren’t optimized for online play, the company very much wants to help you out.įurthermore, there’s a Jackbox Party Pack 7 on the way, so I wouldn’t count online play out entirely just yet. Jackbox Games is the party game-making studio best known for hit games like YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, Quiplash, Fibbage, Drawful, Trivia Murder Party, and more Weve worked with educational institutions to help coordinate Jackbox game nights. Hofer offers video tutorials and step-by-step instructions for streaming on both Twitch and YouTube, which are worth checking out. If you have a means of sharing your screen via a video chat app or streaming online, you can get a Jackbox Party Pack game going online without too much trouble.

The Tom's Guide staff has recently experimented with Discord’s Go Live feature, which also works. In a post entitled “ How to Play Jackbox Games with Friends and Family Remotely,” Jackbox's own Brooke Hofer offered a number of solutions, including Zoom, Google Hangouts and Steam’s extremely convenient Remote Play Together option.

The good news is that the Jackbox team is well aware of this limitation, and has offered some clever solutions to overcome it. Granted, Jackbox games were designed to bring people together in person, but there are still certain situations (a global pandemic, for example) where that’s simply not possible. If the Jackbox Party Pack has one major stumbling block, it’s that playing together in real life is ridiculously simple, but playing online can be complicated.