Pollex Content Warning

Pollex is listed on Steam with Frequent Violence or Gore and General Mature Content. That is not a flavour tag you can ignore while you read how to win. The About This Game text describes watching a finger come off after a lost thumb war. The library hero shows two ruined thumbs under a cold light, wet and marked. This page exists so you can decide — before a wishlist click — whether that is a game you want in the house.

We will not moralise. We will not soften. We will also not invent extra atrocities to sound thorough. If a later trailer adds something this page does not name, the store snapshot will date it.

What Steam already discloses

• Graphic body horror as a rule, not a cutscene. Finger loss is a core mechanic. Losses mark you. Wins take something from the other hand. The listing uses the word visceral for the animation.
• Debt and coercion. Collectors will not wait. Banks will not help. Someone underground settles accounts thumb to thumb. You are not a volunteer athlete. You are a debtor.
• A crowd that wants blood. Spectators are part of the pitch. See the crowd. Public pain is the entertainment.
• A house that takes a cut. The people running the place have their own games. See the house.
• English-only listing. Interface, audio, and subtitles are English. There is no published “hide gore” language pack.

Official screenshots of the apartment add a quieter layer — a bedroom, a bathroom — which can be more upsetting than a pit for some players because it looks like a real flat. Plan for both registers: the ring and the sink.

Who should skip Pollex

Skip, or wait for a verified accessibility toggle, if any of the following are hard limits for you:

• Close-up injury to hands, nails, or joints.
• The idea of gambling with your own body.
• Debt collection, financial panic, or being trapped by people who profit from your losses.
• Body horror that is slow rather than cartoonish. The hero art is not slapstick.
• First-person cameras aimed at damaged skin. The store copy is first-person even if a Steam tag also says Third Person.

If you can watch that art and still want the loop, keep reading getting started and confirm system requirements. If you cannot, this wiki will still be here for store facts. You do not owe the pit a wishlist.

What is not confirmed

• A gore slider.
• A “story only” difficulty that removes cuts.
• Photo mode.
• A promise that the bathroom still is the worst image you will see.
• Multiplayer, so nobody is going to “carry you” through a scene. The listing is single-player.

Steam does list Subtitle Options, Custom Volume Controls, Contrast Controls, and Adjustable Difficulty. Those are comfort tools, not a content filter. Volume can lower a scream. Contrast can help a pin. Difficulty might change how hard a thumb is to hold. None of that is a hide-the-finger button. Log real slider names after launch on controls and performance.

How to use this wiki without spoiling yourself worse

This site describes the mechanic because you cannot plan betting stakes if you pretend chips are chips. We do not write fake execution cutscenes. We do not host shock compilations. We have not found a verified official YouTube trailer ID, so we will not embed a random gore clip and call it Pollex. When Kooky Studios posts one, it will sit in the middle of one article, once.

If you are researching for someone else — a younger sibling, a stream audience, a coworker — send them this page and the Steam descriptors, not a cropped thumbnail. The honest warning is the store’s own words plus the hero image.

Launch-day hygiene

• Play the first session when you can pause. Controls should include a reachable Esc.
• If full controller support is how you play, map a back button to pause before you accept a stake.
• After a loss, walk. The match plan exists so adrenaline does not write the next bet.
• If a scene is enough, stop. Steam Cloud, if wired, should keep settings. Your hands are not a score.

Related

Getting started for the loop, the apartment for the quiet rooms, how to survive for walking away, review for who the pitch is for, roadmap for whether a toggle ever ships, official links for the store page itself.