What is Jackbox Games?
Jackbox Games is a video game company best known for its Jackbox Party Pack series, a collection of party games in which the game shows on one shared screen and every player joins from their own phone by typing a short room code.
At a typical session, one person starts a game on a TV, computer or console and the screen shows a short room code. Everyone else opens a web page on their phone, enters the code and a nickname, and becomes a player. The phone is the controller: it is where you type answers, draw pictures and vote, while the shared screen shows questions, answers and scores to the whole room.
The games lean on writing funny answers, drawing, bluffing and trivia, and they are played at parties, in bars and on video calls. A great many people play this way, which is why the style has a name of its own: Jackbox-style games. The packs are sold as paid products, so check the company's site for what is current.
The name belongs to its owner and Bossfeed is not connected to the company. If you want the same couch-and-phones style for free, Bossfeed's party games work the same way. Open one on a TV browser, scan the QR code and play.
Bossfeed party games - free party games in the same style, played in a browser with no download.
Free Jackbox alternative - how Bossfeed's party games compare in plain terms.