Jack Holmes : Master of Puppets

Jack Holmes : Master of Puppets

Released Apr 2024

Survival Horror in first person where you must manage your ammunition well, explore varied scenarios and face nightmarish beings, while investigating the macabre experiments with children, the result of a mind unhinged by madness and family loss.

81% positive · 173 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Jack Holmes: Master of Puppets launched on April 26, 2024 as a complete single-player survival horror game. In the months following launch, the developer shipped several quality-of-life and performance patches through October 2024, addressing community feedback on controls, optimization, and difficulty. No DLC or post-launch content expansions were ever announced or released for this game. By October 2024, the developer's attention had clearly shifted to new projects. A patch note from October 15, 2024 explicitly mentions "my second (smaller and cheaper) game will be published at the end of the month and I'm making a third one for 2025." The developer's new game, The Sinking Forest, launched on October 28, 2024, and the most recent news posts for Jack Holmes — a physical edition announcement and a new game Steam page reveal in June 2025 — are both entirely about other titles in the developer's catalog, not Jack Holmes itself. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content for Jack Holmes, and no post-launch content expansions beyond maintenance patches. The game shipped as a complete narrative experience and the developer has since moved on to new projects. The last substantive update to Jack Holmes was the optimization patch in October 2024.
Evidence
Developer explicitly states they are making a second and third game, signaling that Jack Holmes development is winding down. No future content announced for Jack Holmes.
news post · Oct 15, 2024 source development ending
high
Most recent post on the Jack Holmes Steam page is about a physical edition of an entirely different game (The Sinking Forest). No Jack Holmes content announced.
news post · Jun 26, 2025 source development ending
medium

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
indie.io
Achievements
14
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

After a long period without finding a job, Jack is forced to join the family business, which he had disowned since he was a child. He begins what will be his first case, simple in appearance, but which will suddenly become his worst nightmare.

Embark with Jack Holmes in a macabre story of living puppets, uncontrolled animatronics and more nightmarish beings through places as strange as a house where experiments are done with children, some mines full of huge spiders or a terrifying amusement park while you do everything to survive. You'll also have to manage the bullets and first aid kits you find... oh, and don't forget to get on the rides!

YOU WILL FACE A LOT OF THREATS.

Empty your enemies' magazines while doing everything you can to survive! You'll face various types of enemies with different mechanics and even bosses - you won't be able to run or hide from anyone here!

VARIOUS AND UNIQUE SCENARIOS.
Dark and terrifying locations, an abandoned house, a basement where children are experimented on, the old abandoned mines and even an amusement park that you can visit at your own pace as you explore every corner in search of ammo and first aid kits to survive.

A fair where you can ride the rides! Explore each part of the park with its own atmosphere, and enjoy all the attractions. But don't be overconfident, danger lurks around every corner.

And ride the roller coasters!

Do you dare?

Game Features:

  • Spectacular graphics thanks to Unreal Engine 4

  • FPS Survival Horror with ammo and first aid kit management

  • Save points whenever you want in safe zones

  • Variety of different scenarios

  • Several types of enemies

  • A tragic and macabre horror story

  • Game length 4 to 5 hours.

Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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