And from the best game of my Halloween marathon to… what was easily the worst. Jack is Missing is a first-person story game which is just so fucking broken. Like, there’s lag on everything you do. There’s no button prompts for anything so you kind of have to guess what you’re meant to do when you pick up an item and want to put it down. Objectives and instructions aren’t generally clear so sometimes you’re left trying to figure out what to do. Cutscenes lock your character in place so whoops, if your head was inclined down when the big jumpscare was supposed to happen then too bad, you don’t actually get to see any of it. Like, I can say that the game wasn’t really a major glitchfest… but when my assumption while playing it is that it is, and when I restart it three times because I think some non-existent signposting is actually the game glitching out and preventing me from progressing, that’s… at least a little bit of an indictment. Combine all that with a… badly written story that literally ends, like, a third of the way through and some really incomprehensible voice acting, and… man, I’m loosely generous and tend to give things the benefit of the doubt, and I wouldn’t call this as bad as other things I’ve given this score, but… I honestly cannot think of anything this game in particular does well, and when the core of this broken mess is something that… wouldn’t have been very good to begin with, I don’t think I’d be lying if I said this was one of the worst games I’ve ever played. Light 1/10.

The fact that this got released (and that you had to pay money for it a while ago) truly amazes me.

The plot is such a mess. I swear, it has to be AI generated. A super computer that analysed tons of indie horror games and came up with this monstrosity.

This would work much better as a comedy: Our lovely protagonist keeps a detailed plan for murdering said friend in a word document and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen. The phone in your hotel room only has four buttons and a couple of numbers are completely missing. The voice acting is text-to-speech.

If you need a good laugh, this might be for you. If you're looking for horror, just find something else to play.