
As the latest prey of a deranged serial killer, you must use your wits and resources to survive in this atmospheric first-person escape room-style horror game. Explore, uncover secrets, and plan your escape... but be quiet, or you'll be his next victim. Inspired by true events.
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The 2024 true-crime podcast "My Escape from the Slackjaw Killer" took America by storm—with its unflinching interview of his only known surviving victim. Painstakingly recreated from testimony, crime scene photos, and FBI reports, this game puts you in Slackjaw's world and asks: Will you survive?
Average playtime: 1 hour

Explore the world of a serial killer as his next victim.

Use your wits and resources to solve puzzles.

Uncover the twisted secrets buried deep within his basement.

Escape to survive. But be quiet, he's upstairs....

Escape room gameplay
Hyper-realistic graphics powered by Unreal Engine 5
Haunting original soundtrack
Xbox controller support
Complete in a single play session
Created by a solo developer
Genres
Stats
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
The music is just f*сkin' awesome, it carried the whole game. I recommend buying it ONLY at a discount if you're looking for a short, atmospheric, and sometimes tense room escape puzzle game.
While its good, it is way too short for my taste. Easily figured this out and escaped in under 30 mins. Not worth the 13 bucks.
Quite possibly the scariest game I have played since P.T. This game is beautiful as it is scary and clever with it's steps to escaping the serial killer. I hope they make more games!
This game really does make you think! I totally recommend this for players, it has good puzzles, and ways to make you're heart race! I've played this game like fifteen times, and every time I play, I love it! 10 out of 10.
we need more like this.
Brilliant game, but short but very much worth the price tag
Watched someone else play this game which caused me to grab it during the sale. I do agree that the price is a lot for a game that can be completed in 10 - 30 mins but I do believe this game has amazing work put behind it ! The soundtrack, graphics, story and assets are all stunning. I've had 'I've been Watching You' on repeat before I even played the game for myself. The price should be a bit lower, perhaps £5, but aside from that. I adore this game.
It's a fine enough game for the hour or so of fun it gives and has solid atmosphere. Though a lot of the fear is gone when you realize that there are maybe two real ways to alert the killer, both very obvious, and when he shows up it's not when you turn the camera and see him appear to your horror. But rather a cutscene where we cut to a door, see his boot, and fade to black.
SLACKJAW whispers from the damp concrete like a half-remembered nightmare, where games cease to be mere diversion and become existential traps. As the latest offering from a lone artisan channeling the grim poetry of true-crime podcasts, it drags you into the basement of a predator whose smile never reaches his eyes. Here, survival is not power fantasy but quiet desperation—every creak upstairs a memento mori, every scavenged tool a fragile rebuttal to entropy. In its brief hour of shadowed existence, SLACKJAW masters the art of tension through restraint: hyper-realistic UE5 decay that feels oppressively lived-in, logical yet panic-inducing puzzles born from the mundane horrors of captivity, and a haunting soundtrack that lingers like the echo of footsteps you pray are not descending. It understands horror as philosophy—how the ordinary becomes profane when stripped of agency, how silence itself is a loaded gun. Short, yes, yet denser in atmosphere than many bloated epics; a perfect single-sitting descent that rewards the patient and the perceptive. For those who view games as art rather than spectacle, this is a stark meditation on vulnerability and the banality of evil, where escape is victory not through combat, but cunning reverence for the small detail. Flawed in its brevity for the price, perhaps, yet unforgettable in the way only true artifacts of dread can be. Play it once, in the dark, and feel the jaw slacken. Highly recommended for connoisseurs of the macabre.
Was a fun little game! i enjoyed it. was NOT based on a trues story. but yolo
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