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Jack Move

2022 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ106960102
Source-derived summary

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.

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.

The Windows and macOS versions launched on September 8, 2022, with console versions for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One following on September 20, 2022.

Reception

Jack Move received "generally favorable" reviews based on five critics on the review aggregator website Metacritic.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jack Move” as 2022 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2012, 2021—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2012, 2022-09-08, 2022-09-20—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Jack, Move and video can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2022 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106960102. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2012 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Jack Move” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.