Pumpkin Jack
Pumpkin Jack is a spooky scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an epic adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good! Colorful Cartoon Setting: Travel through lurid landscapes in levels featuring alluring atmospheres, each crafted with vibrant color palettes, and high-quality lighting effects Fight For Your Life: With challenging beasts lurking around every corner, players must master the art of combo attacks; dodging, and timing to survive dynamic real-time battles! Players must unlock weapons and choose wisely in order to strike down all who oppose them Don't Lose Your Head: Solve puzzles that focus on physics; gravity, and reflection as Jack, or ditch the skinsuit and just use your flaming head to burn books; hammer some moles, create paths for magic spheres; and more as each level introduces new and exciting challenges Find Friends to Fight at Your Side: Helpful companions are there to assist Jack on his journey, including a haughty hooty owl to guide him along; and a snarky crow, itching to assist with long-range attacks
Game Discussion
Steam User 69
Very nice and fun game, but I'm noticing right away the speed in earning achievements and this makes me assume that it has a rather low longevity.
It's a shame because for the money it's sold for, you would really expect a little more.
All in all it gets enough and the game is perfectly integrated with the graphics card's Camera and this allows you to capture excellent screenshots. My rating is 7/10 but get it on sale.
Steam User 45
A fun game, especially for spooky season. If you're in the mood for something that plays like a game from the PS1 era with vibrant visuals and simple combat, give it a shot. It took over 5 hours to 100% the game.
Steam User 20
Wonderful charm filled game for the Halloween season. Like Nightmare Before Christmas and MediEvil had a babby. Not perfect but worth a playthrough and impressive being made by one guy. Hope for a sequel!
Steam User 18
Stingy Jack
Pumpkin Jack is very casual platformer game with nice art style. You basically fight horde of enemies trying to reach your end objective.
There's 6 levels in total and at the end of each level there's a boss fight from which you get a unique weapon.
The collectibles are also very easy to collect, there is also chapter select if you miss any.
Also there are some sweet skins for Jack.
The game is made by one person and I think he did a really great job so he deserves all the support he can get.
The game is very cheap on sale so I recommend you get it!
Steam User 21
Pumpkin Jack is a charming Halloween-themed 3D platformer. You play as Jack, a pumpkin-headed trickster, navigating levels filled with puzzles and combat. The gameplay is simple but fun, with smooth platforming and light hack-and-slash action. The cartoony, creepy visuals give off a playful, spooky vibe, and the humor adds personality. While the game is short and not too challenging, it's a fun, casual experience perfect for the Halloween season.
Steam User 13
Good little game, with beautiful visuals and a nice small variety of weapons for the easy gameplay it demands.
Every level is different and has its own style of theme visually and soundtrack wise, it has different enemies to fight and a cool little plot that is easily followed and unconventional. Personally best part of the game is its witty dialogues and especially the crow's comments.
Highly recommended, especially on discount since its around 4 hours long. Played it on the Steam Deck and it had a scaling issue where it would show the game in a minimized way, just change away from widescreen and it will be fixed. Other than that game runs flawlessly
Steam User 12
Pumpkin Jack is an action platformer that has been described as MediEvil meets Jak and Daxter. This is somewhat true, if perhaps a bit misleading. The similarity to MediEvil is very surface level; really it's just the theming. Both games are comedic, however, MediEvil also takes itself seriously, while Pumpkin Jack does no such thing.
The Jak inspiration is more tangible with very clear inspiration in the puzzles and boss fight designs, as well as smaller gameplay elements such as rats spawning out of a nest that you must destroy. If, like me, you are desperately wishing for something that will scratch the itch for a new Jak and Daxter game, I don't think you'll get it here but I think you will find a great experience that is as close as we'll get outside of OpenGOAL mods. The final boss particularly feels like a really cool Jak boss that we never got and I just had such a good time playing this game.
It took me 7.1 hours to 100% with all achievements, so maybe get it on sale if you feel the price is steep but there's something to be said for a relatively simple but fun game on the shorter side that stays enjoyable all the way through. It makes for a great palette cleanser between bigger games. Would recommend to any fans of Jak but also plans of 3D platformers in general.