If you’ve got a poker face like Lady GaGa, then Fibbage is for you. This is an intriguing bluffing game for two to eight players, which takes an interesting twist on the typical quiz genre, prompting you to enter ridiculous, silly, or downright rude pieces of trivia, with the aim being to convince your pals that they’re true.
Each game lasts around 15 minutes, with three rounds taking approximately five minutes apiece. These quick fire forays consist of a mix of questions with categories to choose from, including anything from ol’ Billy Shakespeare through to football and television. As mentioned, the aim is to deceive, so with a few friends or family members with good imaginations, it can be fun.
What’s interesting about this game is that it’s played using mobile devices. Ditching the DualShock 4, you actually have to head to www.fibbage.com, where you’ll enter a name and room code for the current game that’s in session. This means that your console acts as a kind of host for the action, and it also means that your increasingly daft answers are kept secret.
All of this, as you’d expect, means that it’s ideal for special occasions – similar to that of Monopoly at Christmas – and the short play sessions really enhance that, but it also means that its use is limited. We found ourselves tiring of the format after an hour, and while we could see ourselves pulling it out again, the structure makes it more of a novelty than anything with real longevity.
It also doesn’t help that the presentation’s pretty poor. There’s not a single image in the entire game apart from the start screen – it’s mostly all text. And to make matters worse, the audio’s equally disappointing, with no real memorable melodies, sound effects, or music to hook you in. It’s as barebones as you can possibly get, and you could, in theory, obtain a comparable experience from a paper-based version.
Conclusion
Fibbage is a fun idea, and can be a blast if you play with the right people, but you’re not going to be coming back to it very often. With a little more variety and presentational pizzazz, this could have provided some compelling casual entertainment, but as it is, it’s a fun novelty that’s been poorly executed upon. And, honest to goodness, we’re not lying about that.
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I've had a couple good times playing but it's not something that we all can jus sit and play for hours on end. 3 or 4 rounds and were ready for something else
Fibbage is one of the funnest games I have played in quite awhile. I would definitely give it more of a 7/10 than a 4/10. Its a blast to have family come over and play for a few hours. Its not nearly as fun if you play with less than 4 people.
Fibbage is a fun party game, along the lines of Cards Against Humanity or Apples to Apples, only with a presentation similar to You Don't Know Jack. It's even voiced by the YDKJ announcer. It's a lot of fun, but you wouldn't sit around and play any of those games for hours on end.
Well worth $6.99.
I bet Evolution Studios is really good at this game
It's a fun party game, but the questions start repeating pretty quickly. That's the only major negative to it, imo.
@Longaway The thing is, the questions only repeat if you have played through them all already. Considering the trophy for playing through all of the questions has only been achieved by 3% of the total players of this game, I don't think this is an issue for the vast majority. Of course, if someone sits down and marathons the game over the weekend, they will get through all of the questions, but it does not appear that most players are doing this. I have played this game for about 6 hours now (so about the baseline what many $60 games provide) and I still have yet to get repeat questions.
That being said, I would love for them to continue to support this game via DLC question sets! It is unquestionably the best casual party game I have played since, well, You Don't Know Jack, and I don't want the fun to end!
@thedevilsjester I'm not talking about questions repeating during a play session. I played a couple of rounds the first night I downloaded the game. Three days later I played for a few hours with some friends, and had 5, or so, questions that I saw the first night. Played a week later with different friends, and had a huge amount of questions that had been seen in previous play sessions.
@Longaway I am not talking about a single play session either. The game will only repeat questions once you have gone through them all. I played another two hour session last night, with no repeats still. Until you have played every question in the game, in one session or hundreds, it doesnt matter, it will.not repeat a question. If your game did then you either deleted your save game (or it got corrupted) played on a differernt system or different profile with a different, randomized order.
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