There’s a simple, repetitive card game at the heart of Limb From Limb, but as the name suggests, with a grisly flourish that adds a layer of queasy tension. Every time you draw the wrong card, your character chops off a finger. Lose all five from your left hand and you lose the match.
It’s certainly an incentive not to draw the ‘death’ card – as you and your similarly chop-happy opponent take turns to flip over five cards from your decks – but in a game of random chance there isn’t much you can do to mitigate it. Items bought from the shop allow you to X-ray unflipped cards, regrow fingers or force your rival’s choices, but you still have to flip over every card until one of you loses all your fingers, even if you can see that there are death cards lurking among them.