The Jackbox Naughty Pack Review

After a recent preview of The Jackbox Naughty Pack, I was left a bit concerned that it might be a little bit too tame, despite being for adults only. Then, during a session with my closest and most depraved friends, a question asked if any one of us would peg a previous President of the United States.

And that’s when I knew that The Jackbox Naughty Pack and I would get along just fine.

Consisting of three separate games, The Jackbox Naughty Pack is the first title specifically aimed at adults. Many games of Jackbox comes across as adults only, but this is the first time a game has shipped where the questions being asked are of a spicier nature. No longer are you left to your own devices to plunge a Jackbox session down the toilet, it’s already there.

The Naughty Pack has three games this time, slightly fewer than many of the other packs, and it does feel a bit light at times. It could really have done with a quiz of sorts. Especially when you consider that two of the games in the list are repeats of previous games.

Those games are Fakin’ It All Night Long, Dirty Drawful and Let Me Finish. The first two are repeats of those we’ve seen previously, but with a few tweaks and improvements. Let Me Finish is brand-new for the Jackbox games.

Fakin’ It All Night Long is a social deduction game in a similar vein to The Traitors and Secret Hitler. All bar one player will get a prompt on their phone to make a decision on. The Faker gets nothing, but must try and blend in with their response to avoid detection. After each question, the team vote on who they think is the Faker. Survive three rounds as the Faker to win.

Previously, Fakin’ It played best with all players in the same room. But improvements have been made to the questions themselves that means you can play with folks from all over now.

Fakin’ It All Night Long is quick and fast. A good starter for The Jackbox Naughty Pack.

Next up is the main course then: Dirty Drawful. Whereas previously you were probably drawing all manner of sexual organs in the name of comedy, here you definitely will be. With prompts such as Medusa with her hair replaced by genitalia instead of snakes, you can already picture it in your head.

Those prompts are only half the fun though. The real comedy comes from the other players then trying to guess what your prompt was just from your drawing. Hint: they rarely do, no matter how skilled an artist you think you are.

But, thanks to a small but very welcome update, you can now undo a part of your doodle if it doesn’t look right. But this undo function cannot be spammed; you only get so many throughout the entire game. But let’s be honest, no matter what your intentions are, a simple undo button isn’t going to improve them that much. That is half the fun in Dirty Drawful though.

Too full for dessert, you’ve skipped straight to the nightcaps for the final game.

The new game in the pack is Let Me Finish, and it’s the kind of game that is left until the end of the evening if there is any form of intoxication involved. And it takes a couple of plays for this one to show its true colours.

Let Me Finish is perhaps like going to an improv comedy night when they get the box of props out. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

You are given a picture of an object or objects, with a question completely disassociated with it, but you need to make it work. For example, a picture of an old building with a water tower on top and asked where the pubes would be on it. Or, eight screwdrivers and told to pick which is the dirtiest in the bedroom. So, yeah, alcohol helps with this one.

Let Me Finish will then pit two players against each other to argue their case as to why they’re right, and the rest of the players are the judging panel. However, if you think you can do a better job than the two chosen, you can step in and argue your case. Viewers then vote on their favourite/funniest/absurd/least bad argument, with points awarded accordingly.

The first couple of tries Let Me Finish felt a bit too out of the box for us, but once we got into it a spirit more, we warmed to it. That said, it still remains the weakest of the three and isn’t going to be the go-to game from The Jackbox Naughty Pack.

The long-requested The Jackbox Naughty Pack arrives, and whilst the prompts are what players had been craving for some time, the games themselves are the ones to play it safe. Two are updated versions of existing Jackbox games, and the third is perhaps too out there, even for Jackbox. The Jackbox Naughty Pack is a noble attempt at depravity, but it would have been easier to fully recommend had it come with better games.

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