Five games in one party pack
The Jackbox Party Pack 11 collects five separate party games, each with its own style. Doominate is a head-to-head writing game where you take a perfectly lovely situation and wreck it, turning wholesome jokes into something meaner and funnier. Hear Say is a sound effects game: you record dialogue and noises straight from your phone, then watch your voices play out over short movie clips. Cookie Haus is a drawing game where you fill cookie design orders for unusual clients. Suspectives is social deduction, built around a crime, one guilty player, and evidence drawn from your own survey answers. Legends of Trivia is a team trivia game set in a fantastical world with monsters and real challenge.
How your group plays together
Nobody needs extra controllers. Players join the game and play using phones, tablets or computers, so a group can get going without hunting for gamepads. The pack supports Online Co-op, Online PvP and Remote Play Together, so your crew can play across the internet or share a screen remotely.
Player counts differ per game, so match the game to whoever showed up. Doominate, Cookie Haus and Suspectives all run with 3-8, 3-8 and 4-8 players respectively. Hear Say takes 2-8. Legends of Trivia works with 1-6, including solo play. Suspectives is the pick when you want a full table of friends turning on each other, while Legends of Trivia suits a smaller crew that wants to pool their knowledge as a team.
What to know before starting
Suspectives puts one player in the hot seat as the secret culprit, and the clues come from survey answers the group gave earlier, so everyone's own responses become evidence. Expect to defend yourself even when you're lying. Doominate rewards being deliberately awful, which is worth flagging if anyone in the group prefers jokes that stay kind. Hear Say needs people willing to record their own voices, since the audio you make is what plays back in the clips.
Legends of Trivia is billed as one of the more challenging trivia games in the pack, so go in ready to struggle a bit. Cookie Haus is the calmest of the five, focused on drawing to order rather than competing. Pick the game that fits the mood of the night and swap between them as the group changes size.