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The Jackbox Party Pack 2
Hooks you almost right away
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 3h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 51% of owners
Steam reviews 95% positive of 2,195
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 5h it's 1 in 35 (3%).
- Fully opens up by hour 3.
- The opening is criticised less than in 82% of games we track.
- Only 51% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 2,224 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 5.8h for positive, 3.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (51.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (20)
- Quiplash XL: Quip Tease Get a Quiplash (sweep votes in a 5+-player game) 100%
- Bidiots: Art of the Screw Screw a player and have them actually end up buying that piece of art. 84%
- Fibbage 2: True Lies Write a Lie that's actually the Truth 76%
- Fibbage 2: Lord of the Lies Fool every other player with a Lie in a 3+ player game 62%
- Bomb Corp.: Jewel of the File Successfully file paperwork 61%
- Fibbage 2: Fire the Writers All players find the truth on a question 59%
- Earwax: Aural Surgeon Win the game and win the most likes 58%
- Earwax: Yada Yada Win a round with two voice Sound Effects 56%
- Earwax: Bodily Malfunction Go an entire game without using any bodily function Sound Effects 55%
- Bidiots: Six for Money Play a 6-player game. 43%
- Quiplash XL: Jinx Jinx Enter the same thing as an opponent 33%
- Quiplash XL: Back Talk Write a quip that Schmitty actually responds to 25%
- Earwax: Sound Body Win a round using two bodily function Sound Effects 18%
- Bidiots: Shark Bait Take out three loans and still win the game. 14%
- Fibbage 2: Eight Isn't Enough Play a game with 8 players plus an Audience 10%
- Bomb Corp.: Java Well Done Successfully make coffee 8.0%
- Bidiots: Bid Business Have an auction go above $4,000. 2.1%
- Bomb Corp.: Grinders Keepers Defuse 10 bombs in The Grind 2.1%
- Bomb Corp.: UFOB/GYN Deliver an alien baby 0.8%
- Quiplash XL: Pork Pants Write “pork pants” and win a battle with it 0.6%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.