Jackbox Games has announced The Jackbox Survey Scramble, a second smaller collection of games that brings survey-based gaming to the forefront when it launches in tardy October.
The game will be available on all major platforms, including PC, Mac, Linux, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, and will be priced at $9.99. Free demo will be available during Steam Next Fest from October 14-21.
A direct comparison that many have already noticed is with Guesspionage, one of the minigames in Jackbox Party Pack 3, which used survey data to fill in the answers to many of the questions. However, Jackbox Survey Scramble is at least that idea on steroids. Good steroids.
Jackbox Survey Scramble will feature four game modes, with more to be added in a free update before the end of the year. Initially, these will include Hilo, where you guess the most and least popular answers, Speed mode, where you guess against the clock, Squares, where you organize your choices by popularity, and a mode where you can capture your opponents’ answers in Bounce mode.
In each case, the survey data the game draws from changes dynamically based on responses from you and all players in the game. Return to the game a week, a month, a year later, and the same prompts will yield potentially completely different answers.
In addition to the recently released Jackbox Naughty Pack, Jackbox is creating a game with wider settings. One example of a question is, “What’s the cutest word for butt?” but they won’t be there if you apply content filters for a lower age range. There are also plenty of streamer settings and accessibility options available.
Hopefully Survey Scramble will right the good Jackbox ship.
Source: press release
