The Game Census
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 4 The Ride cover art

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 4 The Ride

Jackbox Games, Inc. · 2013-11-05

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: May 06, 2000 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 30, 1998 (Mac)

Play the game that many consider to be YDKJ’s most fun offering – The Ride! Already played it? Trust us, you've forgotten everything by now. For the fourth volume of the mega-award-winning CD-ROM trivia game show, the YOU DON’T KNOW JACK crew decided to throw out the YDKJ rule book and start fresh!

89%
positive of 178 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$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
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 18,686 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.1k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 178 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
4420142026Week of 2014-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
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 $2.002016-12-12 — best price $2.992017-06-14 — best price $2.992017-11-20 — best price $1.492018-06-11 — best price $1.492018-11-27 — best price $2.992019-03-17 — best price $1.492019-08-05 — 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 $2.192020-08-05 — best price $2.692020-09-16 — best price $2.692020-10-12 — best price $2.992020-11-04 — best price $2.992020-11-26 — best price $2.192020-12-23 — best price $2.992021-01-26 — best price $2.992021-02-17 — best price $2.992021-03-11 — best price $2.442021-04-04 — best price $2.992021-04-27 — best price $2.992021-05-19 — best price $2.442021-06-24 — best price $1.492021-10-18 — best price $2.442022-02-03 — best price $2.992022-07-04 — best price $2.292023-01-25 — best price $1.192023-05-27 — best price $2.292023-09-24 — best price $1.022023-11-25 — best price $2.452024-01-27 — best price $1.002024-09-12 — best price $1.192025-02-25 — best price $2.992025-12-02 — 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

FunnyIndiePartyCasualComedyTriviaStrategyParty GameLocal Multiplayer

Census log

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

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