The Jackbox Party Starter
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This casual indie title, released in 2022, features strategy elements. It has garnered 390 Steam reviews. Publisher and developer attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
The Jackbox Party Starter is a 2022 Casual game developed by Jackbox Games, Inc. and published by Jackbox Games, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 566 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Jackbox Games, Inc. with publisher Jackbox Games, Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 15,000 to 36,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Jackbox Party Starter can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
566
Positive
94%
Steam appid
1755580
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
65
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.015K to 36K
units (median: 25K)
≈ $174K to $407K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 45 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Jackbox Party Starter at roughly 15,000 to 36,000 copies, with a median around 25,000, derived from its 566 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $291K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
15 observed days · window low $10.00Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $10.00 to $10.99. The tracked-window low was $10.00 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
CasualTrivia2DCartoonColorfulComedyDark ComedyDark HumorFamily FriendlyFunnyPvPCo-opLocal Co-OpLocal MultiplayerMultiplayerPartySingleplayerIndieStrategyParty Game
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Jackbox Party Starter sold?
- indielist estimates The Jackbox Party Starter has sold between 15,282 and 35,658 units (median 25,470), derived from its 566 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Jackbox Party Starter?
- The Jackbox Party Starter was developed by Jackbox Games, Inc. and published by Jackbox Games, Inc..
- Who published The Jackbox Party Starter?
- The Jackbox Party Starter was published by Jackbox Games, Inc., developed by Jackbox Games, Inc.. See Jackbox Games, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Jackbox Party Starter released?
- The Jackbox Party Starter was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does The Jackbox Party Starter have on Steam?
- The Jackbox Party Starter has 566 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is The Jackbox Party Starter worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Jackbox Party Starter 94% positive across 566 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Jackbox Party Starter can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as The Jackbox Party Pack 7, The Jackbox Party Pack 6, The Jackbox Party Pack 3, The Jackbox Party Pack 4, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Jackbox Games, Inc.'s other releases and Jackbox Games, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Jackbox Party Starter sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Jackbox Party Starter page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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