Finger Cuts

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Finger Cuts is a physics-based Puzzle Game released on Nintendo Switch in 2024. In this game, players use either the touchscreen or an on-screen cursor controlled using traditional gamepad controls, and must cut off pieces of colored blocks so that the falling pieces pass through a like-colored star.

While this seems like it would be a game better-suited to the touchscreen, the smaller size of the visuals and lack of precision touchscreen controls offer actually make the gamepad controls preferable in my opinion. In either case, they mostly work fine, save for one issue – sometimes, a cut you make fails to register, forcing you to either try again or accept a worse star rating due to taking more cuts to complete a level. Needless to say, this is pretty frustrating.

Otherwise, what’s here works pretty well as a physics-based Puzzle game, with decent variety and a lot of leeway to get creative with your solutions, especially because each “cut” can zigzag into and out of one or more objects as many times as possible, letting you get really absurd patterns that chop blocks into tiny pieces with one “cut”, if you desire.

The presentation is a bit lacking, though. The shapes themselves are simple 2D objects against a plain background, there’s no music, and little in the way of sound effects. Apart from seeing your cuts register in the blocks, there’s nothing of interest to see or hear here.

Still, for only $1, I found myself surprisingly entertained by Finger Cuts. There’s nothing truly original here, the presentation is simple and boring, and the flawed gameplay that doesn’t always register your cuts means you’ll be restarting puzzles far more than you should have to. But with such a low price tag, it’s easy to forgive these issues and enjoy the game’s fun and creative puzzles. If you have an extra buck to spare on a Puzzle game for Nintendo Switch, this isn’t a bad way to spend it.

tl;dr – Finger Cuts is a physics-based Puzzle game that has you cutting pieces off blocks to try to get them to fall on like-colored stars. There’s nothing truly original here, the presentation is extremely bland, and the gameplay doesn’t always work right, but for only $1 I think this game is enjoyable enough to be worth getting for Puzzle game fans.

Grade: C+

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