But for $10 USD? That's not bad!
Ahead of its Steam Next Fest demo, Stevivor was able to check out Jackbox Survey Scramble to get a sense of what it’s offering.
Playing in a group of three, we collectively enjoyed 50% of what was on offer, and would steer clear of the remaining 50%. But for a game that costs $10 USD, that’s not bad at all. For the purposes of this preview, conveniently, we can talk about one game we enjoyed, and one we did not.
One of the game that we can discuss — Hilo — is basically a variation of a format similar to what you’d watch on Family Feud. In Hilo, your objective is to simply guess answers that are on the leaderboard; while you’re mostly looking for the highest-ranking answers, you’re occasionally asked to provide answers that will purposefully be found on the lower end of the scale. In our demo, we were tasked to think of good one-word movies.
In the “games that didn’t go over so well” category was Squares, which Jackbox has described as Family Feud meets tic tac toe. Quite honestly, the problem here was that we didn’t really understand the objective.
Good or bad, Survey Scramble is a great little package that will — like most Jackbox creations — work wonderfully well in a party situation. With more games on the way, and confirmed localisation for Australia (ie your favourite sports team will be an AFL or rugby team and not some random NFL crew), there’s a lot going for Jackbox Survey Scramble.
Jackbox Survey Scramble is expected later from 24 October on Windows PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch; a Steam Next Fest demo is on offer between 14-21 October.
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