Planned Release Date: Dec 7, 2026

About This Game

SOME SCREAM QUEENS GET A STAR ON THE WALK OF FAME. VERA KESSLER GOT A CURSE.

Twenty years ago, grindhouse queen Vera Kessler walked onto Stage 4 to shoot the last scene of the most ambitious picture of her career. The director wanted it real. The prop department found him a mask older than the studio, older than cinema, older than anyone's good sense. Nobody called cut.

Now she's walking back through the gate of a studio lot that never really stopped shooting. The face in the broken glass hasn't aged a day. Something under it has been waiting for her to come home.

FINAL CUT is a text-based horror interactive fiction written with a deep, undying love for the drive-in, the grindhouse and the midnight movie. Every wing of the abandoned lot is a different exploitation genre made real, and every genre has a role it's going to try to cast her in.

SEVEN WINGS. SEVEN GENRES. ONE MASK.

• The Slasher Wing
  
• The Cult / Occult Wing
  
• The Mad Science / Body Horror Wing
  
• The Creature Feature Wing
  
• The Zombie / Undead Wing
  
• The Captivity / Torture Wing, where it all began
  
• The Final Act

HOW IT PLAYS

• Every choice has a cost. Track the damage Vera is taking and the corruption creeping in. Mercy or cruelty, restraint or rage: the mask is keeping score.
  
• Dig up what they buried. Find the evidence that exposes who covered up what happened that night, or don't.
  
• Eight endings. From walking out on your own legs to becoming the monster they always cast you as.
  
• Over 17,000 words of branching story, built to be replayed.
  
• Autosaves at the start of every chapter, plus manual saves ("Takes") any time.

Content note: FINAL CUT deals with industry exploitation, sustained psychological horror and violence, and implies (without depicting) sexual assault. It is entirely text-based, with no graphic imagery.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The in-game background images were generated with AI (Z-Image Turbo), and the story text was drafted with AI language models, both under the developer’s creative direction. The premise, characters, structure and endings are the developer’s own. The store page description was also written with AI assistance. No AI-generated audio is used, and nothing is generated by AI while you play.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

FINAL CUT is a text-only horror story.
It contains sustained psychological horror, written descriptions of violence and supernatural menace, and themes of exploitation in the film industry, including a captivity and torture theme in the protagonist's backstory.
The backstory also implies (but never depicts or describes) sexual assault.
There is no nudity, no sexual content, no graphic imagery and no gore. T
he game does not depict drug or alcohol abuse or self-harm.