Helping Hand

About this game

Imagine this: you’ve been in a horrible car accident, every bone and muscle in your body is broken and the only thing you can use to express yourself is your left hand…
Welcome to Helping Hand!
This game is about communicating with characters, unlocking new environments and possibly ruling the world - all with just your left hand. Throughout the game, you can use up to seven unique hand gestures to communicate with people and fiddle with your environment. Careful though, try not to anger people too much – your life could depend on it!
Helping Hand works with a keyboard and mouse. Each finger within the game relies on a separate input. By default, the controls are:

“1” for your pinky finger
“2” for your ring finger
“3” for your middle finger
“4” for your index finger
“Space Bar” for your thumb

As you press each button, your finger will bend. If you bend your fingers in the right combination, you will form a gesture. Check out the instruction screen if you’re stuck and feel free to change the finger inputs inside the game!
Good luck! And try to be nice to Nurse Barbara…

Latest news

• Press Coverage·27 Jul 2018

  You can only move your left hand in this game, so I flipped off my mean nurse

  You know how in Crysis 2 you're basically a pile of hamburger meat kept alive by a super-powered exo suit? Helping Hand is what you would get if you took the exo suit out of that equation. It's a new game by developer Hubblegum that reminds me of Surgeon Simulator in that you can only move your left hand on account of every other bone in your body being broken. You communicate by making signs and gestures with your hand, moving each finger individually using your number keys and spacebar: 1 for your pinky finger, 2 for your ring finger, 3 for your middle finger, 4 for your index finger, and Space for your thumb. It's a neat and surprisingly nuanced control scheme.  It starts with me in my hospital bed, and I quickly flashback to the accident that put me there: while fiddling with the buttons on my radio, pressing everything but my index finger to poke them, I accidentally plow head-on into a semi. (Relatedly, I'd like to remind everyone: don't text and drive.) I was wondering what sort of accident it would take to break every bone in my body, and yeah, I reckon that'd do it.  I'm a proper mess afterward. My right leg looks like a seven, my left leg is wedged in a grill, my right arm is a limp noodle, the bones in my left arm are exposed, and my guts are falling out. I feel bad for the guy who has to patch me up. He's new to the whole EMT thing, yet here he is reenacting that one scene from Dog Soldiers , and we don't even have any whiskey. Elbow-deep in my exposed intestines, he asks me how I'm feeling.  He also asks me to hold onto his phone. I don't know, maybe his pants don't have pockets. I don't have the energy to argue, so I press all four number keys and Space to make a fist and grab his phone. The thing is, I have a habit of popping my wrists when I type, and without thinking I do so here. My index finger comes off the index finger key, causing my index finger to come off the ...
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