The Jackbox

So, the game is great! But.. how are you supposed to beat the green pack when it doesn’t even give you enough time to do the puzzles? I’m doing them quickly, but it keeps making me restart before I can finish the last puzzle on level 12

The puzzles are just too easy. So instead of making the puzzles more challenging or creative…. The developers focused on creating stress and complications on the players themselves. The box is constantly jumping around…pause and wait. The lights flicker… scene goes dark … pause and wait. The Jack-in-the-box comes out and jump scares you…pause and wait. Half the game is waiting and trying to just get to the puzzle. And of course, the “horror” background music …which is mostly tension-building and repetitive. I really don’t like leaving negative reviews for any developer/game. But this one has a tolerance level not everyone is at. If you don’t mind being visually assaulted and in a constant state of anxiety while playing a puzzle…then you might like this one. I’ll pass.

I’m not a fan of timed puzzles and just don’t feel like it’s worth $6. Cute but not great.

This is a fun game (the puzzles start off crazy easy, but they’re just teaching you the conventions for later puzzles). The biggest problem is that there are also Hidden Object puzzles. I avoid hidden object games because my eyesight is not great and the phone is already tiny. Now that I’ve figured out what’s going on, I’ve accepted that I have to enlarge the screen and scan every pixel — I know I’m not the game’s demographic, so that’s fine. I just wish I had known ahead of time. You can play it without the hidden objects, but then you don’t get to go to evil clown heaven at the end. And really, shouldn’t everyone be welcome in evil clown heaven? I’m just saying.

I love how there’s not even any instructions to play you just have to figure it out on your own

I only got one puzzle piece. I’m supposed to get 2. I don’t know how to get the second one or what creates them. I cannot repeat the tutorial to find out what happens when the box shakes or WHY the box shakes. The words disappeared too fast, and now I cannot access the tutorial again. Frustrating!

I get it: The menacing clown is the central theme. And I don’t mind him popping out every now and then to annoy me. But the constant banging from inside the box is not really artful; it’s disruptive annoying — and it’s pretty distracting when I’m trying to solve a particularly knotty puzzle. Maybe “Turn Banging Off” could be an option in the settings.

Boring

Every time I watch the ad for a hint it goes off might need to fix that

I love this game, but I have now played every Part One of each level and the Epilogue. But now I can’t figure out how to get to play the Part Two if each level and collect the second half of the puzzle pieces. HELP!