Jack Move. Jack Move. Here is a phrase that tickles somewhere, deep in the back of the brain, buried under boxes and old coats. Wasn’t someone…down for a Jack Move? I want to say William Gibson. One of the early ones – or maybe one of the present-day ones?
Jack Move
- Developer: So Romantic
- Publisher: HypeTrain Digital
- Platform: Played on PC
- Availability: Demo out now on PC. Out on PC on 8th of September. Coming to Switch, PlayStation and Xbox on 20th of September
Googling will have to wait, because here is Jack Move, with a demo out on Steam now and a release planned for the 8th of September. Turns out we’re all down for a Jack Move.
And I reckon I was right about Gibson, because Jack Move is a cyberpunk JRPG, albeit one with modern sensibilities, which means the pixel-art is smooth and Treasure-textured and the action is implausibly brisk. Straight up: this is a lovely thing. Lovely from the way that you PATCH items rather than use them, to the way that you have stats for Sass and Guts and Grok.
The demo, which I urge you to try, is a delight. One mission: you are headed into a grubby corps’ offices to dig up dirt that you can use for blackmailing. A few floors to explore and then find the right terminal and get out of there.