Jackbox backs stealth-comedy My Arms Are Longer Now for PC and consoles

Jackbox backing a stealth game about a disgusting, retractable arm is exactly the kind of left turn that suggests the genre still has room to surprise people. My Arms Are Longer Now is Jackbox Games’ first externally published title, and it is built as a 2D stealth-comedy around environmental puzzles, security systems, a lonely guard and a detective who keeps closing in when the arm gets sloppy.

Jackbox announced on March 4 that the game will launch on PC through Steam and Epic in fall 2026, then reach consoles in 2027. The hook is simple and ugly in the best way: the arm extends, retracts and lets you swipe, sneak and otherwise improvise your way through levels that include stealing bicycles and ruining children’s birthday parties. That is the sort of setup that could have stayed a punchline, but the pitch here clearly goes farther than novelty. The game still asks you to read patrols, stay out of sight and deal with consequences when the plan falls apart.

That balance matters, because Jackbox is not treating this as a one-off curiosity. The company said the announcement marked its move into a full-service games publishing label, building on years of making and shipping games for millions of players. Jackbox also said it already has several more strategic publishing partnerships and game announcements planned through the rest of 2026, so My Arms Are Longer Now reads as the first step in a larger slate rather than a one-off experiment.

The studio behind it fits the brief. Toot Games was founded in Melbourne in 2023 by Matthew Jackson and Millie Holten, and the game is its debut title. Jackson previously worked as a game designer on Need for Speed: No Limits, while Holten created the Long Head web comedy series, which Jackbox says drew tens of millions of views and earned an AACTA nomination. The pair met in the local comedy scene, which goes a long way toward explaining why this thing sounds so strange and so specific.

Jackbox vice president of business development Andy Kniaz called My Arms Are Longer Now “unapologetically weird,” and that is the right frame for it. Jackbox’s own audience has already been asking for a fun single-player experience in the company’s tone, and this is the clearest answer yet: a stealth game that does not sand off the joke, but also does not forget to be a stealth game. That is the real signal here, and it is why a bizarre arm and a detective might end up being Jackbox’s most convincing publishing move yet.