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* The web game series ''Dark Cut'' has you take the role of surgeon where you treat horrifying injuries. The first takes place during medieval times, the second during a war, and the last through a variety of different scenarios.

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* The web game series ''Dark Cut'' ''VideoGame/DarkCut'' has you take the role of surgeon where you treat horrifying injuries. The first takes place during medieval times, the second during a war, and the last through a variety of different scenarios.
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* ''VideoGame/VetSetGo'' is a game where you work as a vet (either Mr. or Miss Vet) for a GangOfCritters, from a dog to a ''penguin''.

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* ''VideoGame/VetSetGo'' is a game where you work as a vet (either Mr. or Miss Vet) for a GangOfCritters, various cute animals, from a dog to a ''penguin''.
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* A licensed game of ''Series/GetWellSoon'' involves treating the characters. Each character has one ailment per level and there are two levels. Deep gets constipation and a skinned knee, Kiwa gets a skin rash, Riz gets lice and a verruca, and Jobi gets pinkeye.

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* A licensed game of ''Series/GetWellSoon'' involves treating the characters. Each character has one ailment per level and there are two levels. Deep gets constipation and a skinned knee, Kiwa gets a skin rash, Riz gets lice and a verruca, and Jobi gets pinkeye.pinkeye and eczema.
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They often involve role-playing as a [[TheMedic doctor, nurse, or veterinarian]] and quite often you can take your time (occasionally overlapping with the trope TakeYourTime if the illness or injury would require critical attention in real life), but sometimes they can be a TimedMission where you have to treat the character(s)' problem/s quickly before they die. In games where many different characters are coming in, there might be a risk of either one of them [[CharacterDeath dying]] while you're busy tending to the others, or running out of room (e.g. you have six beds, but then in comes a seventh patient). Characters' deaths may result in GameOver, or, if there are multiple characters, may simply detract from your score.

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They often involve role-playing as a [[TheMedic doctor, nurse, or veterinarian]] and quite often you can take your time (occasionally overlapping with the trope TakeYourTime if the illness or injury would require critical attention in real life), but sometimes they can be a TimedMission where you have to treat the character(s)' problem/s quickly before they die. In games where many different characters are coming in, there might be a risk of either one of them [[CharacterDeath dying]] dying while you're busy tending to the others, or running out of room (e.g. you have six beds, but then in comes a seventh patient). Characters' deaths may result in GameOver, or, if there are multiple characters, may simply detract from your score.
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* ''VisualNovel/LifesignsSurgicalUnit'' and its prequel, ''Kenshuui Tendo Dokuta'', were visual novels released on the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS concerning the titular Tendo Dokuta working at Seimei Medical University.
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** In the game generally, all characters have the ability to revive dead/unconscious PCs, and doing so gives you XP and advances an achievement track.
** Part of the ''Path of Fire'' storyline has a minigame where you have to treat as many injured refugees as possible, before protecting them from the Herald of [[spoiler: Balthazar]] who will kill them. The "treat injured NPCs" aspect of this is a common task in the Renowned Heart quests.

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** In the game generally, all characters have the ability to revive dead/unconscious PCs, [=PCs=], and doing so gives you XP and advances an achievement track.
** Part of the ''Path of Fire'' storyline has a minigame where you have to treat as many injured refugees as possible, before protecting them from the Herald of [[spoiler: Balthazar]] who will kill them. The "treat injured NPCs" [=NPCs=]" aspect of this is a common task in the Renowned Heart quests.
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Usually, the aim of the game is just "treat this character's illness/injury" or "treat both/all of these characters' illnesses/injuries", but other times it's "give medical treatment to as many characters as you can before the time runs out", "treat their illness without getting sick yourself", or "give medical treatment to X number of characters before the time runs out". More realistic games of the genre tend to be [[Simulation Game]]s as well, usually those revolving around surgery.

May overlap with SickEpisode, FindTheCure, TheDentistEpisode, MagicAntidote, ThePlague, or InjuredLimbEpisode. Contrast UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 for games about ''hurting'' people. Compare DisasterReliefGame and ContaminationSituation. Do '''not''' confuse this with PlayingDoctor.

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Usually, the aim of the game is just "treat this character's illness/injury" or "treat both/all of these characters' illnesses/injuries", but other times it's "give medical treatment to as many characters as you can before the time runs out", "treat their illness without getting sick yourself", or "give medical treatment to X number of characters before the time runs out". More realistic games of the genre tend to be [[Simulation Game]]s {{Simulation Game}}s as well, usually those revolving around surgery.

May overlap with SickEpisode, FindTheCure, TheDentistEpisode, MagicAntidote, ThePlague, or InjuredLimbEpisode. Contrast UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 for games about ''hurting'' people. Compare DisasterReliefGame and ContaminationSituation.ContaminationSituation, where treating the patient might not be the only goal of the game. Do '''not''' confuse this with PlayingDoctor.
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Usually, the aim of the game is just "treat this character's illness/injury" or "treat both/all of these characters' illnesses/injuries", but other times it's "give medical treatment to as many characters as you can before the time runs out", "treat their illness without getting sick yourself", or "give medical treatment to X number of characters before the time runs out".

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Usually, the aim of the game is just "treat this character's illness/injury" or "treat both/all of these characters' illnesses/injuries", but other times it's "give medical treatment to as many characters as you can before the time runs out", "treat their illness without getting sick yourself", or "give medical treatment to X number of characters before the time runs out".
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* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'': Multiple side-quests require you to cure [=NPCs=] of ThePlague spreading through Vvardenfell. While not a mini-game per se, the GameSystem gives you a multitude of ways to accomplish that goal, such as learning and casting a Cure Blight spell, casting it from a purchased scroll, or mixing/buying an alchemical potion with the same effect and giving it to the patient via dialogue. Additionally, some patients are found in difficult-to-reach locations or behind enemy lines, so the actual curing is the easier part of the job.
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* The 1988 videogame ''VideoGame/LifeAndDeath'' and its sequel were probably [[UrExample the first games ever]] to attempt anything close to a realistic surgical simulation. The first game dealt with abdominal diseases, such as an inflamed appendix. The second game went with brain surgery. Both games had you diagnosing patients in person, scheduling various radiology exams, studying up on the specific procedures involved, and finally taking a (literal) stab at it in the operating room. Both games were notoriously difficult, since you had to memorize an entire surgical procedure with dozens of steps (no photos or illustrations provided!) and then carry it out flawlessly under pressure in order to avoid killing your patient.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}}'' is about healing the entire world of four simultaneous [[ThePlague deadly plagues]].

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}}'' (the tabletop game) is about healing the entire world of four simultaneous [[ThePlague deadly plagues]].
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* ''VideoGame/ProjectHospital'' is a curious fusion of the typical medical game branches. In large part, it's about building and managing a hospital. However, players have the option to take over treatment of any patient in the building and can order tests, develop diagnoses, and prescribe treatments.
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* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' and its SpiritualSequel ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'' are {{Space Management Game}}s set in a cartoony hospital where you treat patients with bizarre diseases.

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* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' and its SpiritualSequel SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'' are {{Space Management Game}}s set in a cartoony hospital where you treat patients with bizarre diseases.
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* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' is a SpaceManagementGame set in a cartoony hospital.

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* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' is a SpaceManagementGame and its SpiritualSequel ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'' are {{Space Management Game}}s set in a cartoony hospital.hospital where you treat patients with bizarre diseases.
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->''There is a nasty cold and flu invasion going around and we need your help getting HALLS drops to all the poor sick customers.''
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In some games, medical treatment isn't a big deal. You might be able to HealThyself or just [[HyperactiveMetabolism eat or drink something]], [[RestingRecovery take a nap]], or even [[AfterCombatRecovery simply stop fighting]] to get better. Sometimes, the moment you get sick or injured, it's GameOver. Other times, medical treatment takes a bit of effort, but it's not the main focus of the game. And sometimes, you can't even ''get'' [[IdealIllnessImmunity sick]] or [[MadeOfIron injured]]. WellThisIsNotThatTrope. These are games where the whole point is to give medical treatment to one or more injured or sick characters.

They often involve role-playing as a [[TheMedic doctor, nurse, or veterinarian]] and quite often you can take your time (occasionally overlapping with the trope TakeYourTime if the illness or injury would require critical attention in real life), but sometimes they can be a TimedMission where you have to treat the character(s)' problem/s quickly before they die. In games where many different characters are coming in, there might be a risk of either one of them [[CharacterDeath dying]] while you're busy tending to the others, or running out of room (e.g. you have six beds, but then in comes a seventh patient). Characters' deaths may result in GameOver, or, if there are multiple characters, may simply detract from your score.

Usually, the aim of the game is just "treat this character's illness/injury" or "treat both/all of these characters' illnesses/injuries", but other times it's "give medical treatment to as many characters as you can before the time runs out", "treat their illness without getting sick yourself", or "give medical treatment to X number of characters before the time runs out".

May overlap with SickEpisode, FindTheCure, TheDentistEpisode, MagicAntidote, ThePlague, or InjuredLimbEpisode. Contrast UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 for games about ''hurting'' people. Compare DisasterReliefGame and ContaminationSituation. Do '''not''' confuse this with PlayingDoctor.

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* ''VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon'', a flash game parody of ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' wherein your job is to [[DarkComedy perform increasingly harder surgeries on increasingly more gruesome patients]]. It had quite a few sequels, including [[ChristmasEpisode a Christmas themed one]].
* ''VideoGame/BabyHazel'':
** One game is about Hazel's [[EyeScream eye being injured]] in a dust storm. You have to take her to the eye doctor and nurse her eye back to health.
** One game is about treating Hazel's cat Katie (who [[TheToothHurts has a cavity]]) and her parrot Charlie (who has a throat infection).
** "Baby Hazel Goes Sick" is about Hazel catching a cold and you treating her.
* ''[[https://www.sisigames.com/play/barbie-flu-doctor.html Barbie Flu Doctor]]'' is about treating a flu-ridden Toys/{{Barbie}}.
* ''VideoGame/ColdAndFluInvasion'' is about administering pills to patients that have either colds or the flu.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Creatures}}'' the player will have to heal some Norns suffering from infectuous diseases or who have been poisoned.
* The ''VideoGame/CuteHospital'' series is about working as a vet. "Cute Pet Hospital" is about treating regular pets, "Cute Farm Hospital" is about treating farm animals, and "Cute Horse Hospital" is about treating horses.
* The web game series ''Dark Cut'' has you take the role of surgeon where you treat horrifying injuries. The first takes place during medieval times, the second during a war, and the last through a variety of different scenarios.
* ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'':
** ''[[http://disneyjunior.disney.com.au/doc-mcstuffins/doc-mcstuffin-s-clinic Doc McStuffins' Clinic]]'' (unofficial) is about treating "injured" [[LivingToys toys]].
** ''[[http://disneyjunior.disney.com.au/doc-mcstuffins/doc-and-hallie-s-checkup-challenge Doc and Hallie's Checkup Challenge]]'' (licensed) is about trying to fix all the toys before the time runs out.
* ''TabletopGame/DoctorWars'' is a card game (but not with the standard deck) about doctors competing to treat patients.
* ''Edheads'' is a website that features edutainment surgery games, including knee surgery and brain surgery.
* ''[[https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sesame-interactive-elmo-goes-to-the-doctor/elmo-goes-to-the-doctor-sesame-street/ Elmo Goes to the Doctor]]'' is a licensed game for ''Series/SesameStreet'' about Elmo being treated for a cold, a toothache, or an earache. It has a BittersweetEnding, ending with him still in recovery.
* ''VideoGame/FeverFrenzy'' is a game where you play as a nurse trying to cure people of a strange disease that makes them turn into [[LittleBitBeastly animal/human hybrids]].
* One of the ''VideoGame/{{Frenzy}}'' games is about running a hospital.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' unofficial games:
** "[[https://www.frozengames.com/Disney-Elsa-Foot-Injection-Care.html Elsa Foot Doctor]]" is about treating Elsa, who has a [[AgonyOfTheFeet bashed-up foot]].
** "[[http://www.girlgames.com/elsa-frozen-flu-doctor.html Elsa Frozen Flu Doctor]]", the objective is to treat a flu-ridden Elsa.
** "[[http://www.girlgames.com/olaf-frozen-doctor.html?related-image Olaf Frozen Doctor]]" is about treating [[{{Snowlems}} Olaf]], who is [[ImMelting starting to melt]].
** "[[http://www.girlgames.com/anna-frozen-flu-doctor.html?related-image Anna Frozen Flu Doctor]]" is about treating Anna, who got the flu [[CatchYourDeathOfCold after getting hypothermia]].
* A licensed game of ''Series/GetWellSoon'' involves treating the characters. Each character has one ailment per level and there are two levels. Deep gets constipation and a skinned knee, Kiwa gets a skin rash, Riz gets lice and a verruca, and Jobi gets pinkeye.
* ''Hamster Hospital'' is an educational game about using [[AlphabetSoupCans maths]] to figure out which medicines to give to hamsters.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' unofficial games:
** "Applejack Pony Feet Doctor" is about treating Applejack, who injured her hoof after hitting a tree.
** "Applejack Flu Treatment" is about treating Applejack, who has the flu.
** "Pregnant Sparkle Foot Doctor" is about treating Twilight's back hooves, which are [[AgonyOfTheFeet injured]], [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext and she's also pregnant]].
** "Pony Bone Surgery" is about treating Pinkie Pie after she breaks her leg.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Operation}}'' is a board game about doing surgery on a man.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pandemic}}'' is about healing the entire world of four simultaneous [[ThePlague deadly plagues]].
* ''TabletopGame/ParamedicsClear'' is a board game about being a newbie paramedic and trying to rush as many people to the hospital as possible.
* Whether ''VideoGame/{{Pathologic}}'' is this trope [[AmbiguousSituation is debated by the fandom]]. On one hand, you play as a sort of doctor-shaman whose goal is to uncover the nature of the plague that's rotting the town; on the other, you [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption explicitly can't save]] ''everyone'', and [[NintendoHard most players find it hard enough just to keep themselves alive]]. The endings are similarly varied; you can stop the plague or let it run its course to prevent an arguably greater disaster, with plague victims you've healed or with nobody.
* The online game ''Peppa Pig Crazy Dentist'' is about doing dentistry on WesternAnimation/PeppaPig.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Quarantine}}'' is about seeing who can build the biggest hospital, while at the same time taking care of patients and avoiding the spread of infection which can lead to wards being quarantined, hence the title.
* ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013'' is basically a game where you play as a surgeon but the physics of the game screw you over.
* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' is a SpaceManagementGame set in a cartoony hospital.
* The ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' games are about a young Tokyo doctor who starts out treating mundane injuries and illnesses, then, over the course of the game, treats several variants of a [[BodyHorror body-horiffic]] parasite-based biological weapon called "[[FunWithAcronyms G.U.I.L.T.]]" Each strain causes a different affliction: one will use CombatTentacles to carve up a patients insides, while another will secrete carcinogens, causing tumors.
* In the game ''[[https://www.bigfishgames.com/games/2841/unwell-mel/?pc Unwell Mel]]'', you have to cure Mel of a wide range of oddball (and usually PunnyName) diseases by playing Match-3 screens.
* ''VideoGame/VetSetGo'' is a game where you work as a vet (either Mr. or Miss Vet) for a GangOfCritters, from a dog to a ''penguin''.
* ''[[http://www.girlgames.com/victoria-at-the-flu-doctor.html?related-title Victoria at the Flu Doctor]]'' is a game where you need to treat a little girl named Victoria who has the flu. Albeit an [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine odd]] version that comes from a [[CatchYourDeathOfCold too-cold]] ice cream.
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* There's an extra dungeon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' where Rosa has to heal as many people as possible before facing Luna Asura. Rewards are based on how many people she heals in a time period.
* The Toys/{{Furby}} app has a mini-game about diagnosing and treating your Furby. The diagnoses are usually punny versions of normal diseases, whereas the cures are nonstandard things such as honey for a stomach virus.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'':
** In the game generally, all characters have the ability to revive dead/unconscious PCs, and doing so gives you XP and advances an achievement track.
** Part of the ''Path of Fire'' storyline has a minigame where you have to treat as many injured refugees as possible, before protecting them from the Herald of [[spoiler: Balthazar]] who will kill them. The "treat injured NPCs" aspect of this is a common task in the Renowned Heart quests.
* There's a very complicated licensed game of ''Series/HorribleHistories'' that has a mini-game about putting leeches on a sick person's stomach.
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'':
** The mission "20,000 Leagues Under the Fur" is about [[FantasticVoyagePlot going inside Elder Furi]] to cure him of a disease called Glumps (caused by him having [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Glumps]] in his body).
** The second part of "Moptop Mischief" is about finding Zack and curing him of his [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals poisoning]].
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'':
** One plot had a sub-plot about treating Neopets who'd turned into wraith-like creatures, as well as Neopets (and Queen Fyora) who'd sustained injuries in battle.
** One April Fool's joke had [[BlackComedy everybody's Neopets get a disease]] called the "Scourgies" and it could only be cured by other people, so users were buying the cures and sending them to other users.
* ''Videogame/ValiantHearts'' has minigames about treating people but isn't the main focus. While you play as the Belgian nurse Anna, your main objective for the most part is to treat as many wounded soldiers as possible - and believe it or not, when we say as many wounded soldiers, the term is neutral as you get to heal both French and German soldiers - while the Great War happens.
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