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1000 Cuts: Jomaku
A challenging 2D action platformer with brutal one-hit-kill combat, consequential choices, and a lore-rich story set in the dark fantasy world of Kurogawa, Japan. Inspired by Sekiro and Blasphemous, Jomaku is a free preview of One-Thousand Cuts, "raising the curtain" for the full game coming soon!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“Short and quite rough game. Found many bugs and annoyances. Good concept and since is free I will give it thumbs up.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Review after 100% ♡♡♡ Softlocks from the heavens above.. "Don't waste your life, I did. Go home," -John Rambo ⣴⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣼⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⡗ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃ ⣿⣿⡇⠜⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀Got a cat here…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-27.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update #4 + Kickstarter is LIVE
Ahoy friends! Before we get into it, here's a huge thank you to the community for all your insight, feedback, and suggestions. We're a very small team of devs, but we try to roll out updates and impro
Update #3 - UI Rework, Instant Action Mode, Combat QoL, Button Rebinds, Bugfixes
Ahoy friends! This covers a number of hotfixes we've rolled out since Update #2 , in addition to some new and exciting things we've got cooking in the linked build. Before we get into it, here's a hug
Update #2 - Dodge and Parry Buffed
Ahoy friends! Before we get into the most recent batch of changes, here's a huge thank you to everyone who's given us feedback, suggestions, and pointed out bugs etc., we couldn't do it without ya! Th
⛩️ Follow One-Thousand Cuts on Kickstarter! ⛩️
https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/44893285/28d5f14d18b73dd76189a1f0ae7d22c1de526738.gif Ahoy Friends! Thanks for joining us :- ) Before we get into it, we just wanted to give a big ol' sh
Update #1 Thanks for Playing!
https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/44893285/62515553b4ebcb9df96b27f1a64c3f56cca3d3c1.gif Ahoy friends! Before we get into all the changes, we wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you (
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Action · Adventure · Hack and Slash · Souls-like · Pixel Graphics · Side Scroller · 2.5D · Cinematic · Ninja · Stylized · Alternate History · Dark Fantasy (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 10 |
| Official site | https://linktr.ee/onethousandcuts |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 or Later Processor: 2 GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 512 MB VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 300 MB available space Sound Card: Yes