Surgeon Simulator
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player pries open the ribcage, smashes bones, and pulls out and swaps internal organs with exposed viscera on screen, as body-opening gore the player directly causes.
The player cuts into an unconscious patient with surgical tools, and blood appears on the body and operating table during clumsy, botched procedures.
The patient can die on the operating table as a comedic fail state; death is the punchline rather than something shown gravely.
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What it is
A slapstick, physics-driven surgery game where you play a bumbling surgeon carrying out operations — heart, kidney and other transplants — through deliberately unwieldy one-hand controls. The humour comes from fumbling crude tools such as saws, hammers and drills to cut open an unconscious patient, crack the ribcage and swap out organs, usually making a bloody mess in the process. Botched attempts leave an open body cavity and exposed organs with blood across the table, and the patient can die on the table as a comedic fail state. There is no sexual content, no profanity written into the game, and no online play.
How it's framed
The game frames surgery as black comedy: the gore of opening a body and the chance of killing the patient are played as the joke rather than treated with weight. It does not reward cruelty and there is no human enemy — the harm is a slapstick medical mishap performed by the player.
Details
- Developer
- Bossa Studios
- Publisher
- Infogrames
- Released
- Apr 19, 2013
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