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YOU DON'T KNOW JACK MOVIES cover art

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK MOVIES

Jackbox Games, Inc. · 2013-11-05

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Apr 16, 1997 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1997 (Mac)

YDKJ: Movies is considered the most challenging game in the series – are you up for the challenge? Test your movie knowledge from back when movies were movies, and movie candy didn't have high fructose corn syrup!

61%
positive of 97 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 80% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 18,686 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.9k–7.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 97 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.83 at Steam (2025-09-15) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520132026Week of 2013-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$0.892015-01-012026-09-032015-01-01 — best price $2.242015-12-20 — best price $2.992016-05-27 — best price $2.002016-12-12 — best price $2.992017-06-14 — best price $2.992017-11-20 — best price $1.492018-06-11 — best price $1.492018-11-29 — best price $2.992019-03-28 — best price $2.992019-08-05 — best price $2.992019-12-16 — best price $1.352020-03-25 — best price $2.402020-05-14 — best price $1.492020-07-09 — best price $2.192020-08-07 — best price $2.992020-09-19 — best price $2.992020-10-15 — best price $1.492020-11-07 — best price $2.992020-12-02 — best price $2.992021-01-03 — best price $2.192021-01-27 — best price $2.442021-02-18 — best price $2.992021-03-15 — best price $2.442021-04-07 — best price $2.992021-04-30 — best price $2.992021-05-22 — best price $2.442021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-11-26 — best price $2.192022-02-03 — best price $2.992022-06-30 — best price $2.292022-12-22 — best price $1.192023-05-20 — best price $2.192023-09-01 — best price $2.292023-11-20 — best price $1.012024-01-23 — best price $1.192024-08-23 — best price $2.992025-02-17 — best price $1.192025-11-20 — best price $0.892026-09-03 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieCasualComedyTriviaStrategyParty Game

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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