Surgeon Simulator

I loved this game. The controls are purposefully awkward, as you move the mouse to move your arm, rotate it, move the wrist, etc, and you press five keys on the keyboard to "curl" the corresponding fingers. Key unpressed, the finger is "straight", key pressed, the finger is "closing" on something, like to hold it. With those awkward controls, you'll have to perform the "surgical procedures", that is, opening the patient, removing the faulty organ (and everything in the way), then putting back in the replacement organ, and Voilà !, the procedure is a success ! You had to change the heart, and you trashed the lungs, destroyed the ribcage, removed the trachea ? No problem, the patient will probably be fine, you're the doctor, after all ! Brain-change surgery ? No problem: Open the head, dump the old, useless brain, then put in the shiny new brain (you may even try and dunk it in, basketball-style), and ta-daa !, your patient is saved ! You might have gathered that it is not an "educational" game, despite the tag saying so. It is a hilariously humorous "simulation", if simulating butchery from a clumsy surgeon can be called that. But it IS hilarious to play, especially if you watched people play, and thought they sucked at it, and how you'd be SO much better. Yeah, wait for it :) What are the tools of the trade ? Well, they go from the little scalpel to the "surgical axe", with everything in between - hammer, pincers, bolt-cutter, laser, circular saw, and so on. Just try your hand with one, or another, find out which tools work best for you, for a given task, and get to "saving lives" ! Oh, and, by the way, there is an achievement if you patient "unfortunately expires" in less than ten seconds... but no problem here, it's all virtual, no real patients were harmed during the making of this game... I think. So, well, if you fail, just shout "Next !" from the top of your lungs (you didn't remove YOURS, did you ?), and just try again !

It's a fun toy to mess with, has some awkward controls and black humour, but my main problem with it is the price tag. It's too expensive for what it is. Wait for the discount on this one and you will enjoy it. If you want to run it on linux, native version is available on Steam.

OK, this one is tough to review. This game very intentionally works against your best efforts through the controls and the physics engine. However, despite that, it's a fully realized artistic vision. Is it fun? Maybe, if you know how to enjoy losing and watching all your work get ruined with one slip of the controls. Fans looking for light, comedic body horror should also be interested. I only got about 7 or 8 hours of play out of Surgeon Simulator before I got sick of the game, but there's a good variety of surgical scenarios to delve into here. It is definitely more fun with friends watching and heckling and sharing in your triumphs and disastrous mishaps. It's kind of a party game in that respect. I don't really know. If you want to play a game where the point is that you win and lose through sheer stupid stinking blind luck and nightmare controls, this would be a good one to get on sale. 3/5.

Uncontrollable, pointless mess, uninstalled again after some minutes.

The game had its good time back then. I mean, for what it really was: A game to show other people. It was fun in a sense that it was a bad game so bad it made it fun. Now I think this would ve a very good idea for a VR game. Just don't waste money here. Everyone nows it already and the novelty factor was all this game was good for.