Perfect Cut

Perfect Cut is a free arcade game made with AI by @maxify, and you can play it right here in your browser.

You are the last great gem cutter.

A rough stone lands on the black velvet. Nobody — not even you — knows what is sleeping inside it. A blade of light sweeps across its facet line, and you get one tap to cleave it.

Land it dead centre and the stone opens up: brighter, sharper, worth more. Then the game asks you the only question that matters.

SELL — bank it, safe, walk away with what you've earned. CUT AGAIN — the margin narrows, the blade speeds up, and the price climbs. Four perfect cuts on the same stone is a Flawless. Eight is a Masterpiece. One slip and the whole thing shatters on the bench.

Nine stones. One in two hundred is mythic.

Cloud Quartz pays the rent. Pigeon-Blood Ruby pays for the year. And somewhere in the rough, roughly once every two hundred stones, sits The Mythic Star — a stone museums bid on, revealed in a blaze of gold the first time your blade touches it. You cannot tell from the outside. You never can.

Every gem you finish gets a lit pedestal in your private vault. Every shift fills your purse for the bench upgrades — a steadier hand, a weighted blade, a jeweller's loupe that reads the stone before you commit. Ruin three stones and the shift ends, but your fortune carries over, always.

Retire at $99,999.99.

That number is printed on the bench from your very first stone. Bank it in your lifetime and they name a cut after you.

Sessions last twenty seconds. Careers last much longer.