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Play All Jackbox Games From One Launcher

By artuhaxis and 1 collaborators

Play any game from Jackbox using one unified launcher, instead of having to keep track of every release.

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Akira896
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artuhaxis
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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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16 Nov, 2021 @ 5:48pm

2 Feb @ 8:10pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Update (2024)

Introduction

How to use

Features

Credits

Comments

Update (2024)

Jackbox Games have released their own launcher, The Jackbox Megapicker!
This guide will remain available, as Jackbox Utility is still an alternative launcher for those who prefer it.

Introduction

Ever started a Jackbox session, and were in a situation where:

You didn't know what to play?
Had to find a game and didn't remember from which pack was it?
You simply wanted to keep track of one Jackbox shortcut instead of one per pack?

Thanks to Jackbox Utility,[jackboxutility.com] you can now solve these issues! It's an unified launcher compatible with all Jackbox Games releases since The Jackbox Party Pack 1.

How to use

To use it, simply download the program and open it. It'll detect all the games you have installed automatically. The program is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac (works perfectly on Steam Deck as well).

You can download the launcher from the following link:
http://jackboxutility.com/

Features

Jackbox Utility includes the following features:

Access to any game you have installed in one launcher
Direct access to the minigames within a Party Pack
Customizable rating system to keep your most played games together
Random game selection, for when you don't know what to play
Filter the games you want to play in the Filter section

Credits

Huge thanks to Alexis,[github.com] the creator of the app, along to the rest of the contributors![github.com]

11 Comments

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artuhaxis [author] 14 Jan, 2024 @ 10:30am

As long as the games shared are installed on the computer, they should work with the launcher

emmelikeslawyers 14 Jan, 2024 @ 8:07am

Will the games that you have through family sharing be in the launcher?

Akira896 [author] 15 Oct, 2022 @ 11:07pm

This is not a mod. This is a launcher. You just download it, browse the locations of the games and you're ready to use it.

Void Wanderer 15 Oct, 2022 @ 11:06pm

How do you install the mod?

Leon Genesis EvangeLeon 31 Mar, 2022 @ 9:36pm

artuhaxis [author] 27 Mar, 2022 @ 9:17pm

Actually, there's a rewrite of the app that is open-source. You can find it in here [github.com] if you're interested.

Leon Genesis EvangeLeon 25 Mar, 2022 @ 8:14pm

Why isn't the app open source?

Akira896 [author] 7 Feb, 2022 @ 2:17pm

The app was made for Steam in mind. Drawful 2 will work no problem, since it doesn't modify anything to begin with. Jackbox 1 on the other hand, depending if the file structure is different it could cause trouble, but I doubt it. This launcher only modifies one file to launch the games directly. As long as that file is pretty much the same, it'll work no problem.

Red Guy 25 Jan, 2022 @ 11:41pm

Does this work for people who own the games outside of steam? I gotten Jackbox 1 and Drawful 2 back when they were free on epic.

Akira896 [author] 25 Nov, 2021 @ 12:31pm

The developer of this app did it for Windows only. There will not be Mac version.

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