My Jackbox aficionado friends were quick to throw each other into the interrogation room, where one of them hemmed and hawed while the other grilled them profusely. One of them even said their childhood crush was Sailor Moon, which threw everyone else off their scent and had them suspecting me as the criminal. We had gathered to play the latest Jackbox Party Pack 11 days before release, and the most eager ones immediately learned the rules for a game of what I’ve dubbed to be “dog Among Us,” trying to find the imposter dog among the group.
Like the other viral game series, the gameplay involves looking at evidence and interrogating suspects if you’re innocent, and trying to blend in and escape detection if you’re the criminal. But Jackbox’s Suspectives mini-game, aka dog Among Us, has everyone playing as a dog wearing a hat and not an astronaut. And rather than sci-fi, the setting is more like film noir. It was an instant hit among my group of friends, and likely one of the stand-outs of the latest Jackbox Party Pack (can you believe they have already reached 11 packs?) out this week.
