Despite having, well, let’s say zero freestyling experience, we had a riot. A skilled freestyler could easily excel at this game, but more importantly it makes it easy to be funny. Mad Verse City isn’t even done yet and it feels like a perfect Jackbox game. Ties are broken by audience participation. After the duel is done, the rest of the players vote on the funniest rap. Players can weigh in on how “fire” the raps are, or “boo” if they’re feeling rude. No, they don’t always pronounce things right.

Using a variety of text-to-speech voices, each player’s rap is performed by a robot. Once everyone’s got their raps written, it’s time to watch the battles. Mad Verse City also lets players know who they’re battling with each round, in case they want to get personal with their insults. And the game makes it pretty easy to be funny, since the fill-in-the-blank nature of the first line ends up creating self-owns just about as often as it crafts sick burns. While the game pushes the player to rhyme the end of this line with the end of the first, the only real rule is to write the funniest thing you can think of. Next, the player writes the entire second line of their rap. The game then writes the player the first line of their rap, with their chosen word at the end. First, players receive a prompt asking for single word, like a positive adjective or an occupation. In Mad Verse City, players craft rhymes for a robot rap battle. Welcome to Mad Verse City, a brand new party game in The Jackbox Party Pack 5.

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