- 70/100
- Players5 ratings
- 95/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic8 critic reviews
- 75/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 74/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3/5
- Player reviews
- 80% positive814 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac
- Price
- US$19.99
Where to get it
2022 · So Romantic · Adventure · Indie
Jack Move
Jack Move is a unique blend of gritty cyberpunk story telling, turn based battles and beautiful modern pixel art. Take on the role of Noa, a vigilante hacker who is thrust into a world of murder, kidnapping and dark research after her father goes missing.
- Released
- 8 September 2022
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 4WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/SmacOS
- Genres
- AdventureIndieRole-playing
- Developers
- So Romantic
- Publishers
- HypeTrain Digital
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Third personBird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Country
- TaiwanUnited Kingdom
- Age ratings
- ESRB E10+GRAC 15+PEGI 12USK 6
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, English (UK), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 6hmain story8hwith extras10hcompletionist
About
Jack Move is a role-playing video game developed by So Romantic and published by HypeTrain Digital in 2022 for macOS, Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
›Story
They whisper her name on the streets: Solares.
A mysterious veteran of the Data Wars, she keeps the fight against the Corporations alive as a vigilante hacker-for-hire, empowering the downtrodden and undermining those with power.
When she receives an emergency message from her estranged father - the eccentric Dr. Abner Solares, whose wife’s death spurred him to become the leading researcher of ‘digital reanimation’ - Noa is thrust into a world of murder, kidnapping, dark research, and the corporation that would steal it for their own ends: Monomind.
What starts as fight to save your father will become a fight for the future of mankind itself…
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Jack Move is a single player turn based role playing game. The combat system of the game is based around strategic use of three different elements.
Development
Development of the game started in 2012, with the creation of a battle system. According to a 2021 interview in Wireframe Magazine, game was developed in the Unity game engine, making use of 3D environments in conjunction with a forced perspective, video post-processing and other artistic techniques to create the illusion of a 2D overworld. The game was influenced by Golden Sun and the Final Fantasy series, as well as by elements of the film Hackers.
A public demo was released on Steam during the 2021 Steam Summer Festival. In August 2022 an animated trailer was released.
Reception
Jack Move received "generally favorable" reviews based on five critics on the review aggregator website Metacritic.
A number of praised the game's impactful nature in spite of its short length.
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