The Game Census
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK SPORTS cover art

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK SPORTS

Jackbox Games, Inc. · 2013-11-05

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: 1996 (Mac), Oct 17, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Sports nuts, this one’s for you. The classic YDKJ Sports pack is back, featuring sporty host Guy Towers! Think you know everything about football, basketball, baseball, or hockey? How about tennis, volleyball, golf, or lawn darts? Then light up the scoreboard with YOU DON’T KNOW JACK Sports – it’s YDKJ all hopped up on 'roids!

62%
positive of 60 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
1h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)
You Don't Know Jack is a series of party video games developed by Jackbox Games and Berkeley Systems. The series began with You Don't Know Jack (1995), and combines trivia and comedy within a game show framing device.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 18,686 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–4.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 60 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
3320132026Week of 2013-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 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 $1.492018-04-28 — best price $2.992018-11-27 — best price $2.992019-03-17 — best price $1.492019-08-01 — best price $1.492019-12-14 — best price $1.492020-03-24 — best price $2.692020-05-12 — best price $2.402020-07-09 — best price $2.992020-08-07 — best price $2.992020-10-10 — best price $2.192020-11-03 — best price $2.992020-11-25 — best price $1.492020-12-19 — best price $2.992021-01-15 — best price $2.992021-02-08 — best price $2.992021-03-07 — best price $2.992021-03-29 — best price $2.442021-04-22 — best price $1.492021-05-15 — best price $2.992021-06-06 — best price $2.442021-10-14 — best price $1.492022-01-01 — best price $2.192022-06-14 — best price $2.292022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-05-19 — best price $1.202023-08-15 — best price $2.192023-11-17 — best price $1.072024-01-16 — best price $2.192024-08-05 — best price $1.192025-02-03 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $2.992026-09-03 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

235922026-06-25 — 128 pageviews2026-06-28 — 174 pageviews2026-07-01 — 120 pageviews2026-07-04 — 129 pageviews2026-07-07 — 125 pageviews2026-07-10 — 122 pageviews2026-07-13 — 135 pageviews2026-07-16 — 103 pageviews2026-07-19 — 112 pageviews2026-07-22 — 115 pageviews2026-07-25 — 146 pageviews2026-07-28 — 120 pageviews2026-07-31 — 147 pageviews2026-08-03 — 130 pageviews2026-08-06 — 117 pageviews2026-08-09 — 161 pageviews2026-08-12 — 98 pageviews2026-08-15 — 143 pageviews2026-08-18 — 145 pageviews2026-08-21 — 130 pageviews2026-08-24 — 144 pageviews2026-08-27 — 162 pageviews2026-08-30 — 235 pageviews2026-09-02 — 111 pageviews2026-09-05 — 178 pageviews2026-09-08 — 108 pageviews2026-09-11 — 108 pageviews2026-09-14 — 104 pageviews2026-09-17 — 123 pageviews2026-09-20 — 148 pageviews2026-09-22 — 120 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieCasualTriviaStrategyParty Game

Census log

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

Players also track

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 2YOU DON'T KNOW JACK HEADRUSH

Similarity via IGDB.

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