The Jackbox Party Pack 9

Jackbox is the only option on this list that genuinely works for eight or more people in one room, which makes it a fundamentally different recommendation from everything around it. One person has a PS Plus subscription, one person has a TV, everyone else just needs a phone with a browser. The games inside Pack 9 range from drawing-based social games to trivia formats, and the mix means there is usually something that lands with whatever specific group you have assembled. Worth being straight about the setup: players join via jackbox.tv on their phones, not through controllers. That is the whole model. For a group that knows this and is fine with it, there is nothing else on the service that fills the same room this well.

Nobody needs a controller. That is the thing about Jackbox that no other party game on this list can say. Everyone uses their phone, which means the person at your party who has not touched a game in three years is playing within thirty seconds. Pack 9 includes Fibbage 4, Junktopia, Roomerang, Quixort, and Nonsensory, and the quality across them is more consistent than older packs. I would not put this above the games that require genuine coordination, because the engagement is different, more observational than active. But for a mixed group where some people are not really gamers, this is the safest recommendation in the entire catalog.