However, it quickly becomes complex as your team struggles to move around increasingly dangerous kitchens with increasingly complex orders. The core gameplay is simple, especially if your group designates players to certain areas of the kitchen. Overcooked is a cooking game where you and three other players must work together to get orders out accurately and on time. Overcooked (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) Team17 Digital It’s a breathless experience, but once the dust has settled, your playgroup will quickly realize how much fun they’ve been having. Experts will violently rip through pages while the defuser tries to figure out how to communicate what they’re seeing. “Stressful” doesn’t begin to describe how frantic Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is. Using the bomb defusal manual, the experts must communicate with the bomb defuser to disable the various modules placed around the bomb.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes puts one player in the role of the bomb defuser and all other players in the role of experts. No one asked for a VR bomb defusal game, but developer Steel Crate Games went ahead and made one anyway. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) Steel Crate Games That said, there’s no real alternative that combines so many different gameplay experiences in a single package. Each of the games below is like Jackbox in one way or another. It’s worth noting that Jackbox games cover a wide spectrum, from trivia to memory games and beyond.

Trivial Pursuit Live (PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch).

Jeopardy (PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch).

Moving Out (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch).

Overcooked (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch).

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch).

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