$0.99 (−90%)Surgeon Simulator Malpractice Made Hilarious
Do surgery with one clumsy hand, a toolbox full of wrong instruments and patients who may not survive your help.
Is Surgeon Simulator worth it?
Surgeon Simulator is worth it if…
- you enjoy games that are hard on purpose and funny because of it
- you want short sessions where every attempt goes differently
- you play with friends watching, because this is much funnier with an audience
- you like physics chaos more than realistic simulation
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A hand that refuses to cooperate
You control one floating arm. The mouse moves it, and five keyboard keys move five separate fingers, so picking up a scalpel means hovering over it, lining up, and pinching it with every finger at once. The controls are deliberately awful, and that is the whole point: the game is a comedy sandbox where you fight the physics as much as the surgery. One moment you are cracking ribs with a hammer, the next your wristwatch has fallen into an open chest and there is no way to reach it. Failure is loud, messy and genuinely funny, and getting good at this takes real patience. When it clicks, though, you will be pulling off transplants you once thought impossible.
Patients, tools and places surgery should never happen
Your regular patient is Bob, who needs hearts, kidneys, lungs and more, and somehow keeps coming back. The roster gets stranger: the Heavy from TF2, an alien with one-of-a-kind anatomy, and the 45th President of the United States. The toolkit mixes scalpels and syringes with hammers, drills and office supplies, and the game rarely tells you which to use, so experimenting is half the fun. Operating theatre is just the start. You also work along the hospital corridor and in the back of a high-speed ambulance, where every bump sends organs flying. The 2017 A&E update adds new procedures, environments and a pumping soundtrack.
Can you play it with a friend?
Can you play it with a friend?
Yes, in a two-player mode where one person moves the arm and the other controls the fingers. Splitting the hand between two brains makes everything harder, and that is exactly why it is funnier. The game is also a natural spectator sport: it became famous through people filming their disasters, and a room full of friends shouting advice while you drop a kidney on the floor is arguably the best way to play. Solo works fine too, but the laughter is shared equipment.
Is it a realistic surgery simulator?
Not even slightly. It is a comedy game about surgery, not a medical one. There is a blood level that drains when you poke a patient with a running drill, and success often means improvising with whatever is on the desk. If you want accurate procedures and steady hands, this is the wrong table. If you want to transplant a heart using a hammer while an ambulance bounces you around, it is the right one.
