Stealth Horror Game ‘Slackjaw’ Launches August 8 [Trailer]

Last November, solo dev Nostromo Games revealed their first-person “escape room” horror title Slackjaw, which draws inspiration from the “inspired by true events” trope that’s a magnet for horror fans. During the recent Dames 4 Games Slumber Party Showcase, the developer revealed (complete with a new trailer) that the game would be released August 8 on Steam.

Slackjaw centres around the fictional true-crime podcast, “In the Jaws of Terror: My Escape from the Slackjaw Killer”. The podcast focuses on an interview with the only known surviving victim of the aforementioned Slackjaw Killer. You play that victim in Slackjaw. Painstakingly recreated from testimony, crime scene photos, and FBI reports, you are brought into the killer’s world, with one question: Can you survive?

With an average play session clocking in at around an hour, Slackjaw takes you back to the killer’s basement, where you must explore and piece together the secrets within the basement and try to escape. But in order to do so, you’ll need to be quiet, as the Slackjaw Killer is on the floor above you. One sound can have the killer come down the basement stairs, leaving you scrambling to hide and avoid the same fate as the other victims.