Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This 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.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Pollex contains graphic depictions of body horror, including the loss of fingers as a core game mechanic shown through visceral animations. The game features themes of debt, coercion, and survival under duress. Players are placed in high-pressure situations involving implied violence and psychological tension throughout.