Authentic 1930s noir atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The atmosphere of 1933 is captured perfectly. Dark alleys, smoky bars, shady characters.”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗
Jack Orlando: Director's Cut
Worth buying? What 259 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 259 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 65%Mixed · 65%Toontraxx Studios2013Point & Click · Detective · Adventure
−50%$6.99$3.49
US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A rough but atmospheric 1930s noir point-and-click with a superb jazz soundtrack and hand-drawn art, undermined by illogical puzzles and bad voice acting. Skip it if you hate walkthroughs.
Great for
Retro adventure fans and noir lovers who accept moon-logic puzzles and keep a walkthrough handy
Main risk
Illogical puzzles and unwinnable states force a walkthrough; crashes on modern Windows are possible
What players love
Superb jazz soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The soundtrack by Faltermeyer is smooth jazz perfection. I listen to it outside the game.”
Steam review · 4.3 h played ↗
Nostalgic classic for adventure fans
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“great game for fans of broken sword or monkey island.”
Steam review · 4.3 h played ↗
Charming hand-drawn art and animation
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“the graphics have a nice comic book style. very distinct.”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗
Engaging detective story and characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“it is a really good story of a private eye, who got into a difficult situation and has to clear his name.”
Steam review · 7.9 h played ↗
Director's Cut adds easy mode and scenes
Mentioned in ~1 in 50 positive reviews
“director's cut adds some nice features. easy mode is a blessing.”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Illogical puzzles require a walkthrough
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“A walkthrough is REQUIRED to play this game.”
Steam review · 6.3 h played ↗
Terrible voice acting and dialogue
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“the voice acting ranges from bored phone operator to local theater’s first rehearsal”
Steam review · 12.3 h played ↗
Clunky controls and interface
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The controls are fiddly and annoying and you often have to do things several times before they register”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗
Crashes and access violation errors
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“I was really enjoying this game until I got an "Exception Error Access Violation" error.”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗
Dead ends and permastuck states
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“You can make actions that will make the game unwinnable, without any warning.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
Useless items and pointless locations
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“insane number of useless items and useless (although sometimes funny) dialog conversations”
Steam review · 8.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable700 MB
Minimum
OSWindows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
ProcessorIntel or AMD Singlecore CPU
Memory1 GB RAM
Graphicsany Windows compatible GA
Storage700 MB available space
Recommended
OSWindows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
ProcessorIntel or AMD Singlecore CPU
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsnVidia GeForce, or ATI/AMD Radeon
Storage700 MB available space
OSWindows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
ProcessorIntel or AMD Singlecore CPU
Memory1 GB RAM
Graphicsany Windows compatible GA
Storage700 MB available space
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