Jackbox Survey Scramble release confirmed for 24th October

thesixthaxis.com:

If someone approaching you on the high street with a clipboard in hand sparks nothing but fear, then Jackbox Survey Scramble will be the perfect horror game for a Halloween party when it launches on 24th October.

The game will arrive for all major platforms including PC, Mac, Linux, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, and will be priced at the rather appealing point of $9.99.

Just ahead of that 24th October release date, PC and Mac owners will be able to get an early look with a Jackbox Survey Scramble demo available during the Steam Next Fest from 14th to 21st October. That will give you access to two of the game’s four modes – Hilo and Squares.

This is Guesspionage souped up into a full standalone product. Hilo is a game where you guess the most and least popular answers, while Squares has you organise choices in popularity order. The other two games are Speed mode, where you’re guessing against the clock, and a mode where you can intercept your opponents answers in Bounce.

In each case, the survey data that the game is drawing from is dynamically shifting based on the answers that you and all of the game’s players are feeding into it. Come back to the game a week, a month, a year later and the same prompts will potentially give rather different answers.

Off the back of the recently released Jackbox Naughty Pack, Jackbox is making this a game with broader settings. One of the question examples is “what’s the cutest word for a butt?” but that won’t be in there if you apply content filters for a lower age range. There’s also streamer settings and accessibility options aplenty.

Speaking Naughty Pack, this is the first year in a decade without a 5-game Party Pack release, and Naughty Pack didn’t manage to fill that void for us in anywhere near the same way. An experimental fumble in the dark which sought to put more adult-rated prompts and games together, it did not land. In our Naughty Pack review, Jason said, “Ultimately, Jackbox Naughty Pack