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Pollex

Enter the pit. Bet your fingers. Survive the thumb war. Pollex is a first-person horror game set in an underground thumb war fight pit. You owe a debt you can’t pay. The only way out is through the ring ,where every match is played for keeps, and the house always takes a cut.

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Kooky Studios
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Kooky Studios
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About the Game

YOU OWE A DEBT YOU CAN’T PAY

 

The collectors aren’t patient. The banks aren’t interested. But someone knows a place, underground, off the books, where debts get settled the old way. Thumb to thumb. Bone against bone. Welcome to the pit.

 

Pollex is a first-person horror game where you descend into an underground thumb war fight pit. The rules are simple: grip, pin, win. But down here, nobody plays clean. The opponents are wrong. The crowd wants blood. And every match is played for keeps.

 

EVERY FINGER IS CURRENCY

 

You don’t bet chips. You bet fingers. Win a match, take your opponent’s. Lose, and you watch yours get cut. The deeper you go, the higher the stakes,and the less you have left to gamble with.

  • Bet your own fingers on every match

  • Face increasingly brutal opponents in the pit

  • Read your opponent, learn their tells, exploit their weaknesses

  • Pay off your debt or lose everything trying

 

THE PIT DOESN’T FORGET

 

Every loss marks you. Every win draws attention. The deeper you descend into the pit, the stranger things get. The people running this place have their own rules, their own games, and their own reasons for keeping you in the ring.

 

  • Navigate an underground world built on pain and debt

  • Discover who runs the pit, and what they really want

  • Survive long enough to clear your debt and walk out whole

BUILT BY HAND

 

Pollex is built in Unreal Engine 5 by a solo developer. Every texture, every model, every sound is hand-crafted, no AI-generated assets. The pit was built to feel real, and you’ll feel every crack and every creak when you’re down there.

A NOTE FROM THE DEVELOPER

 

I’ve been making games for years, but Pollex is the one that wouldn’t leave me alone. The idea of thumb wars, something everyone’s done as a kid, twisted into something genuinely unsettling stuck in my head until I had to build it.

 

Wishlist Pollex. Tell your friends. I’ll see you in the pit.

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