Dark Cut

Dark Cut is the first installment of Dark Cut series of games. It is developed by jmtb02 and it was released on November 15th, 2007 by Armor Games. It is preceded by Dark Cut 2 which was released on December 10th, 2007.

Description
The setting of this game is the Middle Ages on Europe (according to history, names, and beliefs in-game). A player takes the role of a Royal Guard (as suggested by the letters in the game) but acts as a medical practitioner when an injured or unfortunate militant is brought for care and recovery inside the shack in the middle of wilderness.

There are three patients in the game in progressive order of stages:
 * Captain Harold
 * Captain Harold suffers a leg injury due to an arrow pierced through his leg.
 * Unknown Royal Guard
 * Bubonic Plague causes fatal blisters upon one of the royal guards.
 * A Vampire
 * Captured unconscious monster of the night is brought in for proper execution (although this game is about the medical procedure, this stage is different from any other stages including the later Dark Cut games.)

Gameplay
Each stage conducts a proper procedure whenever the tools are in use. The most efficient tools for each treatment are selected automatically every after instruction is followed. Green/yellow stars are earned for scoring when the procedure is cleared depending on player's performance.

Since the theme for the game is Middle Ages, these tools are chosen thematically when they were the norm at that time. To complete the procedure, stars on the patient must be clicked or dragged into the correct line. Other procedures, such as the wooden mallet, must be clicked in precise time on the highlighted power level, similar thing happens when placing the tool or hovering object, such as the cross, on an area within the dotted line.
 * Knife
 * Saw
 * Rag
 * Wooden Mallet
 * Forceps
 * Skin Graft
 * Hot Iron
 * Vinegar
 * Rose Water
 * Leeches
 * Syringe
 * Needle and Thread
 * Cross
 * Wooden Stake
 * Garlic
 * Marker
 * Axe

Each stage starts with 100 health points of a patient. Failure to follow the procedure by skipping a star in the dragline, clicking at the wrong timing of power level or allowing the saw to move out of the desired object loses 5 or 10 points depending on a tool (20 points for the axe on final stage). However, lethal tools would also lose health points as part of the treatment, so a player must save these points before it reaches 0 and fails the stage.

Handicaps

 * Since the first game was released in 2007, it was started at a slower frame rate due to memory limitations on a certain web browser and old versions of flash player. However, due to improvements in hardware and software updates, the gameplay is sped up, causing a disadvantage in performing timing procedures.
 * Failure to complete the stages two and three forces a player to go back to the first stage.