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YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 1 XL cover art

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 1 XL

Jackbox Games, Inc. · 2013-11-05

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The original PC sensation that started it all! We've brought it back in all its virginal glory! The world was a much simpler place in 1995. The kids were listening to the grunge, the first test-tube gorilla was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, and a little trivia game called YOU DON’T KNOW JACK took the interactive CD-ROM trivia game show...

78%
positive of 244 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
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 down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 18,686 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.8k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 244 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.83 at Steam (2025-09-15) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$0.832015-01-012026-09-032015-01-01 — best price $2.242015-12-20 — best price $2.992016-05-27 — best price $2.002016-12-24 — best price $1.502017-06-27 — best price $1.502017-11-28 — best price $2.992018-06-11 — best price $1.492018-11-27 — best price $2.992019-03-17 — best price $1.492019-08-01 — best price $1.492019-12-14 — best price $1.492020-03-17 — best price $1.492020-05-11 — best price $2.992020-06-22 — best price $1.492020-08-04 — best price $2.992020-09-15 — best price $2.992020-10-10 — best price $2.992020-11-01 — best price $2.992020-11-23 — best price $2.692020-12-21 — best price $2.442021-01-22 — best price $2.442021-02-12 — best price $2.192021-03-10 — best price $2.992021-04-02 — best price $2.442021-04-26 — best price $2.992021-05-18 — best price $2.992021-06-18 — best price $2.442021-10-11 — best price $2.442021-12-27 — best price $2.442022-06-14 — best price $2.292022-12-08 — best price $2.992023-05-03 — best price $2.292023-08-14 — best price $1.202023-11-13 — best price $2.452024-01-15 — best price $1.202024-07-29 — best price $1.192025-01-20 — best price $1.192025-09-15 — best price $0.832026-09-03 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndiePartyCasualComedyTriviaStrategyParty GameLocal Multiplayer

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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