Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2022

  Truly the best game to play when your brain is at 0%
• gamedeal user

  Aug 16, 2014

  Jazzpunk is...well it's...umm...hmm... Sitting here having finished the game, I haven't the least bit of an idea how I'm supposed to describe the bloody insanity that is Jazzpunk. I could say it's a psychedelic love letter to obscure references; an outrageous consolidation of ridiculous moments and hilarious dialog, brought to life with a bizarre art style and deadpan delivery. But what is Jazzpunk really? Well I guess it's all of these things and so much more; an barrage of creativity held together by forces beyond our understanding. It's insane and absurd, and I love it so much. Set in an alternate history Cold War era Japan, you take on the role of Polyblank: espionage extraordinaire, who has been contracted to obtain confidential information from a top secret soviet headquarters. Utilizing prescription medicine and his many skills, from being able to speak to inanimate boxes to throwing popcorn on fellow theatergoers, he's the obvious man for the job and perhaps the only sane person left in this world (assuming he even is). From the opening moments (which are absolutely brilliant, I might add) Jazzpunk pulls you by the throat down its rabbit hole of computer puns, pigeon degaussing, stick people, and Hunter S. Thompson. It's a mad, mad world that revels in its own absurdity and pulls it off with a consistency and potency that defies reason, but proves nonetheless hilarious and even nostalgic, pulling and referencing things I thought I'd forgotten so many years ago. Jazzpunk exists in a vacuum of its own insanity; a colossus monument to the sheer power of imagination, and perhaps the closest thing to a videogame cult classic I've ever seen. I have no doubts that there will be people that "just don't get it", find it too simple a game, or otherwise fail to appreciate its genius and that's fine. It isn't a game for everyone, but for those that harbor a love for technology jokes, deadpan humor, and the plain bizarre, Jazzpunk's surreal brilliance is hard to miss.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 2, 2022

  you can type butt into the telephone
• gamedeal user

  Oct 9, 2022

  Who is punk and why is he jazzing?
• Fajo

  Oct 31, 2022

  Cyberpunk 2
• olympicgamer05

  Nov 12, 2022

  Naked Gun and Austin Powers had a baby
• gamedeal user

  Nov 12, 2022

  Overall, a trial and error puzzle game with a few jokes that spans approximately 2 hours of gameplay. Jazzpunk Directors Cut is a hit-or-miss experience.
• Mail

  Nov 25, 2022

  Man this game is so short but so good buy it
• mhinthorn2

  Nov 27, 2022

  Beats workin'
• Big Papa Lorenzo

  Dec 4, 2022

  quirky and pretty funny. completely ridiculous novelty storyline that doesn't take itself too seriously (modern games need to take this approach more). reason for negative review is that due to the controls I couldn't play the game for longer than half an hour without feeling like i needed to hurl, and i've never once felt motion sickness from a video game. all in all if you're able to stomach it, it's a pretty fun little romp to help kill some time