50/50 is a cheerful, deeply heinous free game about cutting things perfectly in half | Gaming

We’re having a bit of an indie freebie morning, it seems. My humble contribution is 50/50, a downloadable or browser-based game which I suspect will fill some of you with the deepest aggravation. As the name suggests, it’s about cutting things in half – specifically food items, such as fried eggs (easy enough) and candy canes (WTF). You draw a line down each object with your mouse, then click or hit space bar to perform a slice. Then, the game calculates a percentage. If it’s bang-on or very close to 50/50, you’ll pass. If not, you’ll have to start over. I know: this is how entire days are wasted. Sorry.

Whomst amongst us has not known the surpassing irritation, the abiding frenzy of not quite cutting an item exactly in half in a video game? I have terrible memories of…