Fibbage

Fibbage is a party game only available as a standalone title in the US. I got it using some of my American credit a while ago and only got around to playing it last month. It seemed like fun so I actually got some real-life friends to come around and play it to completion.

Fibbage was a unique gaming experience for me. It requires you to use a smart phone, tablet, laptop or computer and go to a website while the Xbox One is running the game. You, and up to seven friends, need to log in to a room and then you play the game on your devices.

The principle of Fibbage is simple. The game will ask you some outrageous questions and you have to enter a deliberately wrong answer that’s as close to be being right as possible in order to trick the other players into going for your answer. If you find the right answer, you get points, and you get points for tricking people with your lies. At the end of the game, the person who has the most points wins. Simple. You play two rounds of multiple questions followed by a final Fibbage with increasing points as you go through the rounds.

After you’ve played a few times, the narrator gets annoying as he explains the rules every single time which is frustrating but understandable as first-time players will need the info.

Also, on our last play, we found that the same questions were coming up frequently so there’s not a lot of variety after about six hours of playing. However this is a double edged sword type of problem when you consider…

Achievements – 1,000 Points – 10 Achievements

With the right set up, 9 of the 10 achievements can be earned in 20 minutes. The trickiest to carry out alone, although I shouldn’t have worried in the end, was for completing a game with 8 players. I actually did this using multiple browsers on a laptop with Firefox and it was easier than a lot of the guidance made out.

A lot of the other achievements are luck based if not playing alone though. The most notable ones are for tricking everyone with a lie in a three plus player game and you also have to enter the same lie as someone else. You have to know the answer to at least one of the questions as there is an achievement for entering the truth for a lie. The game won’t let you enter the actual truth so after you discover the truth through guessing (like I did), you have to enter a lie.

The one that I didn’t get until a few games in was for winning the Thumbs Cup. You can like other people’s lies once you’ve answered the question but I didn’t see this for some reason. You need to get the most likes in a game and then you get the Thumbs Cup. This is also like a post-game thing you can do where instead of playing for points you can play for likes.

As mentioned above, there are surprisingly few questions in the game and the last achievement I unlocked was the pathological liar achievement which is for answering all the questions in the game. The main problem with this is that there are a set amount of subjects and you have to pick from a selection so unless you track all the subjects you’ve picked, this will take a while and even then it’s up to the computer to give you the ones you are missing – which is annoying.

Downloadable Content – N/A

Fibbage was a fun few hours with friends. It’s a shame that the fun was short-lived though. What it could do with is a ‘make your own’ function where you can ask your own questions. That would definitely add to the life of the game. Achievement wise, aside from Pathological Liar, it’s a quick and easy completion and well worth doing if you have some friends who like these sorts of games.