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I have never played the knife game, the game where you rest your hand on a table, splay out your fingers, and stab the gaps between with a knife, increasing your speed as you go. The reason I have not played the knife game is because I like my fingers, and do not trust my own fine motor movement enough. Good thing video games exist then, ‘ey? Specifically, it’s a good thing 500 FINGER FILLET exists, or will exist somewhere down the line, a roguelite clicker where you have to stab yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap.
Or, again, stab the space between your fingers, the goal is not to lop off any of your little appendages. Here’s how it works in practice: you are strapped down to a table. There is a counter attached to your wrist. A strange machine that looks like the concoction of a mechanic that thinks they’ve made something genius has a knife fixed to it, with a nearby button allowing you to stab downwards. It moves bit by bit over your hand, wobbling around a touch, as you try to time the stab at just the right moment, desperately hoping to not slice off your ring finger.
ANNOUNCING: 500 FINGER FILLET
500 STABS. 30 MINUTES. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand five hundred times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table?
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— Heather Flowers (@hthrflwrs.bsky.social) April 23, 2026 at 3:15 PM
There is also a timer, where an anthropomorphic bear person looms over you, telling you at first that you need to stab 50 times within three minutes. You also have the option to pick your poison, or your blade, rather, which might be a switch knife, or a kitchen knife, or a fork, or a ritual knife, all with their own percentage level that determines how likely they are to sever a part of you. Through completing the stabs, you earn bones (yippee!) which can be traded for items and rings to “improve your chances.” Details are slimmer on this aspect.
500 FINGER FILLET certainly has a Buckshot Roulette quality about it, that whole being stuck in some dingy room with a creepy son of a gun playing games that are ultimately designed to hurt you, eventually. I’d almost say it’s Buckshot Roulette by way of Clickolding, but considering there’s no demo just yet there’s no guarantee my comparisons are opt. Looks gnarly though! I want to do the stabby stabby in the safe realm of digital entertainment. I’ll just have to wishlist it on Steam and wait until later this year.
