Medical games

Recommendations by MathBrush

These are games that have a medical theme of some sort, including medical simulators, medical horror, and games featuring doctors.

Feel free to suggest others!

(Items 8-15 suggested by David Welbourn)

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1. Cheiron, by Elisabeth Polli and Sarah Clelland (2005)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
MathBrush says:

A medical simulator. You play a medical student having to diagnose patients based on their symptoms.

2. The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M
by Michael D. Hilborn
(2011)
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

MathBrush says:

A surreal afterlife game where you revisit your life as a mercy-killing doctor.

3. Mercy, by Chris Klimas (1997)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
MathBrush says:

A mostly choice-based parser game about a mercy-killing doctor. By the creator of Twine!

4. Body Bargain
by Amanda Lange
(2012)
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

MathBrush says:

A gore game where you earn a body makeover by remodeling other bodies. Includes anorexia as a theme.

5. Divis Mortis
by Lynnea Dally
(2010)
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

MathBrush says:

Zombie game set in a hospital.

6. Slouching Towards Bedlam
by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
(2003)
Average member rating: (214 ratings)

MathBrush says:

You run an asylum.

7. Vespers, by Jason Devlin (2005)
Average member rating: (177 ratings)
MathBrush says:

Plague features prominently.

8. Halothane, by Ravi Rajkumar (1999)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
MathBrush says:

A hallucinatory-style game with significant portions in a hospital.

9. One Eye Open
by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
(2010)
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

MathBrush says:

A gruesome horror game in a medical setting. A psychological experiment goes horribly wrong, unleashing terrifying horrors throughout a hospital.

10. Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous
by Bitter Karella
(2017)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

MathBrush says:

A darkly humourous game set in a Victorian-style asylum with an orphan protagonist.

11. I Was a Teenage Headless Experiment, by Duncan Bowsman (2010)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
MathBrush says:

I haven't played this, but apparently you are a severed head trying to escape a laboratory.

12. Lunatix - The Insanity Circle
by Mike Snyder
(1999)
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

MathBrush says:

An illustrated puzzle fest set in a mental hospital.

13. The Weight of a Soul
by Chin Kee Yong
(2021)
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

MathBrush says:

A big and enjoyable game where you play as a sort of fantasy world doctor studying things like goblins. Mystery.

14. Pumping!, by Stephen Granade (1998)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
MathBrush says:

A silly game about a heart.

15. Losing Your Grip
by Stephen Granade
(1998)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

MathBrush says:

A lovely game, huge and surreal. Includes a 'real-life' narrative in a hospital contrasting with fantasy worlds.

16. Last Vestiges
by thesleuthacademy
(2023)
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

MathBrush says:

Mystery game that contains medical elements.

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