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This pack is not worth $30. I don't even think it's worth $24.
I play Jackbox with a group of friends. We meet up roughly every week, I come when I'm able. Jackbox 10 was a huge letdown, and I don't think anyone was really having fun with it, except for dodo re mi and fixytext. tko was also okay. i havent played thr trivia one because i hate trivia games.
fixytext is simple and extremely funny. everyone is split into two teams. you try to write up messages as a team. everyone is writing together and it's total chaos. it's hysterical.
dodo re mi is a rhythm game. it was clearly made by a group of people that isnt overly familiar with the genre, though, and their definition of difficulty seems to be determined primarily by how many buttons you have to press. the charting for the 4 key instruments is great, but i have trouble with anything else because my fingers get confused on what buttons they need to press, so i cant say much on the charting for anything else. there are some funny instruments, like doug, and mouth noises. its very rewarding when we can beat dodo re mi, but it has ludicrously bad connection issues at times, and we often lose players in the middle of the song because they can't reconnect.
hypnotorious fucking sucks. it is by far the worst jackbox game ive ever played, i hate it more than i hate trivia games. everyone is silently sorted into different roles fitting a certain number of categories. you know your role, but you dont know anyone else's, and nobody knows the categories. if your first thought when you see hypnotorious is "gee, i wanna play that!" then you probably enjoy watching paint dry. there's also secretly an outlier, someone who doesn't fit into any of the categories. it feels half-assed.
now, tee ko 2. its okay, kind of. i dont enjoy playing it as much as i play tee ko 1 because they switch out all the cute avatars from the first game with characters from different packs, which makes it feel like marketing fodder. its also canonised that the bunny character won, for some reason. it does have nice quality of life upgrades, like you can use the highlighter lookin tool to colour your shirts more cleanly, like in champ'd up. you can also choose different types of shirts - hoodies and tank tops are added to the pool, and theres more colours, both for the fabric and for the pens. you can also change the font type.
however. holy hell, tee ko must be running on spaghetti code. we were playing it the other day and two players' shirts were deleted (thus could not compete), and when each of us went to make shirts for the second round, *regardless* of if we chose to make a new shirt or to change an existing one (and, worse, regardlss of what shirt we decided to change!) we were all assigned the exact same shirt. That is legitimately unacceptable. We ended up just playing the original Tee ko and had way more fun with way less ridiculous instability.