I played this with my siblings and cousins and even a few rounds with my parents. Our ages ranged from 11 to 24 (ignoring the parents, of course), so I was glad that every game in this pack had options to make things family-friendly, either via family-friendly prompts or through moderation and censorship available to the "host" of any game. Another neat feature they built in was a lot of spectator tools for streaming purposes. I didn't get to use it, but I'd imagine that it could make for a good time for streaming personalities.
Quiplash 2 was fun as always; nothing too out of the ordinary other than the final round, which allows players to award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place medals for each answer. Still fun with a good group of people.
Murder Trivia Party was ok. Questions are properly weird and obscure, and the fact that you're not immediately out when you guess wrong and instead get a minigame to stay in makes it fun and forgiving. Still, as a party game, it can be a downer because those who are out are completely out and basically get a few minutes to watch and "do nothing."
Guesspionage was ok to good, depending on your group of people. It gives one person a chance to guess at what percentage of people fulfill some requirement and gives everyone else a chance to guess if that answer was too high, too low, or much too high or much too low (15% higher or lower than the first person's guess). Like any other sort of trivia game, this doesn't allow for much creativity or self-expression, and when played with the wrong people will just turn into a purely thinking, almost-single-player game.
Fakin' It was great. By far the best game in the pack. Each round, one player is assigned to be the Faker. Everyone is sent instructions on their phone to do something when the timer is up. This could range from raising your hand if you look at your poop, to holding up a number of fingers detailing the number of books you read in the last year. The Faker, however, doesn't receive the question, and instead has to bluff his or her way into making everyone else think someone else is the Faker. It's a great social game and is super fun when you let people try to defend themselves or raise accusations and reasons. It's one of the games that 100% requires people to be in the same room; trying to run this over a video call really takes something away from it.
Tee K.O. is the drawing game in this pack. It's weaker than the previous Drawful games because it doesn't really give solid prompts. While it can be fun trying to come up with a funny combination of captions and drawings (with considerably better drawing tools), the fact that users are given complete free rein over the pictures often leave them drawing very generic pictures, which makes the resulting combinations less interesting. Still, some good moments can come from it, and would probably be a lot more fun with people who have played it before and are purposely making interesting illustrations.
Overall, the party pack is good. I'd say it's worth it for Fakin' It alone.
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