Preview: After Ten Years, Jackbox Party Pack Doesn't Seem To Be Slowing Down

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Jackbox Party Pack is one of those multiplayer games that my family and I play constantly. Every major holiday we spend together, many of our Friday Night Magic game nights, and so many family get togethers are anchored by playing Jackbox Party Pack. It literally brings my family together, and is one of the few games everyone in my family can enjoy without worrying about a high barrier of entry. Got a phone and a sense of humor? Boom — you can play Jackbox. 

We're on the cusp of Jackbox Party Pack 10 releasing this month, and the inevitable game nights I have to plan around now, I was happy that back at PAX West, the team at Jackbox invited me to play a build of the party game with some other journalists. What ensued was nothing short of the wacky fun that I've come to love about Jackbox over the years.

Jackbox has this uncanny ability to take relatively simple party games and make them the center of game nights everywhere. For my family, it started years ago with Jackbox Party Pack 3 and the game my mother in particular likes, Fakin' It. Quiplash is another that really has my family flexing its creative muscles (and since we have to play with the family-friendly setting turned on, really constraining mine). These are just the preludes to the game that I like the most: Trivia Murder Party, where I can finally put the obscure history and cultural knowledge I spend my downtime learning to use.

At PAX West, I asked Jackbox Games CEO Mike Bilder about what it was like knowing their games are quintessential to family game nights everywhere, especially as a way to get kids involved.

«It's been great,» Bilder told me. «We intentionally have been designing these games so that they're accessible to all age ranges. [...] Your story is