History Videogame / SurgeonSimulator2013

** Likewise, the achievement "I Should Never Have Doubted Myself", and the patient's official name being Bob, are taken from the Let's Play done by {{Robbaz}}.

* BizarreAlienBiology: [[spoiler:The alien surgery has a bunch of organs with nonsensical names, and each time only one out of six is the right one. Among them is a stomach ball, a glowing intestine, some kind of living creature which makes noise when you detach it, a purple lung, an orange heart-like thing that causes hallucination if you touch the spikes, and a cybernetic implant. The organ names are easter eggs, each one based on popular [=YouTubers=] who have played the game, including [[Creator/Robbaz]], LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} and [[Creator/AchievementHunter Gavin Free and Michael Jones]].]]

* BizarreAlienBiology: [[spoiler:The alien surgery has a bunch of organs with nonsensical names, and each time only one out of six is the right one. Among them is a stomach ball, a glowing intestine, some kind of living creature which makes noise when you detach it, a purple lung, an orange heart-like thing that causes hallucination if you touch the spikes, and a cybernetic implant. The organ names are easter eggs, each one based on popular [=YouTubers=] who have played the game, including LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} and [[Creator/AchievementHunter Gavin Free and Michael Jones]].]]

** All of the [[spoiler:alien organs]] are shout outs to notable players and other recognizable names.

** The eye surgery is relatively straightforward, except for the part where you have to yank the eyes out. Even in [[BloodyHilarious this game]], stabbing pencils in the eyes is on the low priority end of potential test attempts.

''Surgeon Simulator 2013'' is, if anything, a [[NonindicativeName very inaccurate simulator]] wherein you control the hand of [[BunnyEarsLawyer "surgeon"]] Nigel Burke, allowing you to attempt all kinds of bizarre operations. Since Nigel is apparently either drunk, suffering severe paralysis, or grossly underqualified, this mostly involves failing in [[BlackComedy hideous yet hilarious ways]]; as the first hurdles involve [[FakeDifficulty learning to grasp objects]], it isn't hard to imagine the results you'll be seeing.

->Looks fine to me, I'm sure he'll live...

* BoringButPractical: A combination of the bone saw (or hammer) and a scalpel can beat pretty much every level with an A++ rating. A few levels may need an additional tool, like using the tweezers to put the new teeth in, but that's about it.

* GuideDangIt: This is very much a trial-and-error game, especially if you're going for A++. The first few times you play the game, it'll be an achievement just getting through the bones, let alone taking out an organ. It certainly doesn't help that the Britannia 88 discs, which are supposed to teach you how to properly perform tasks, don't always recommend the best tools. There are, however, several specific examples that go above and beyond that.

** Deliberately invoked with the [[spoiler:alien]] surgery, which changes the objective on each playthrough and doesn't tell you what's what.

* InterfaceScrew: Grabbing the green syringe by the needle end will cause you to hallucinate, giving you purple and green double vision and distorting the music. Doing the same to the purple one cancels it out. Jamming a scalpel in the electrical socket will cause your mouse movements to reverse.

** The eye surgery is relatively straightforward, except for the part where you have to yank the eyes out. Even in [[BloodyHilarious this game]], stabbing pencils in the eyes is on the low priority end of potential test attempts. The game recommends a scalpel, which causes bleeding. Pencils don't. Then you have to shake the eyes out of the sockets once you've loosened them, which the game tells you do by taking a hammer to his temples. Bitch-slapping the patient is safer (no, seriously).
** The teeth surgery requires knowing (or at least making the uncharacteristically logical guess) that the tweezers will actually pick up teeth. The game also tells you to use a drill to get the teeth out, which causes far more blood loss than a small hammer will.

** The achievement for using the laser during the eye surgery on the Android version of the game is [[MassEffect "Go For The Optics!"]]

* BoringButPractical: A combination of the bone saw (or hammer) and a scalpel can beat pretty much every level with an A++ rating.
** Apart from the teeth transplant, which requires the tweezers to put the new teeth in.

* TheSouthpaw: You do control the left hand, after all. In the Steam version, you can switch between hands. If you have the Razer Hydra, you can use both hands, but they haven't quite worked out all the kinks so it's only really useful in the ''Meet the Medic'' level.

* SuddenlyVoiced: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]; Nigel does speak in the demo, but he's completely silent in the full game.
** A new phone call was added in the A&E DLC that gives a voice to Bob.

** The teeth surgery requires knowing that the tweezers will actually pick up teeth. The game also tells you to use a drill to get the teeth out, which causes far more blood loss than a small hammer will.

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: While the game does give you instructions on how to do certain surgeries properly, sometimes it can be easier or safer to use a completely different method to performing an operation by experimenting with other tools.

* GuideDangIt: This is very much a trial-and-error game, especially if you're going for A++. The first few times you play the game, it'll be an achievement just getting through the bones, let alone taking out an organ. It certainly doesn't help that the Britannia 88, which are supposed to teach you how to properly perform tasks, don't always recommend the best tools. There are, however, several specific examples that go above and beyond that.

* InfiniteSupplies: In all of the Corridor surgeries, your supplies and replacement organs are randomly carted to you and then roll away after a few seconds. Even if you knock all of the organs or supplies off the cart, there will always be another cart with replacements coming up.

* UpToEleven: Space. Think it's hard grabbing things normally? Try it without any gravity.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: The surgical laser. It can cut through anything, but it causes ''massive'' blood loss if you use it on soft tissue. Prior to the A&E DLC, it also caused no blood loss when cutting bone, which has since been adjusted to cut bone quickly at a smaller loss than most tools.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: It doesn't take a medical degree to realize that there's more to heart replacement surgery than just plopping a new heart where the old one used to be but then again, adding realism would make things extremely complicated for minimal gain in fun.

** The Britannia 88 discs to the side of the computer offer diagrams of how to properly sever various organs and bones, as well as optimal tools. The Know Your Syringes disc teaches you what the two colored syringes do, including the very important knowledge that the green one stops bleeding. You don't actually get access to these disks until after they would be most useful, however. (For instance, you get the disk telling you what tools to use for the heart transplant after you've already successfully done one.)

* AnAxeToGrind: Among your surgical tools is, inexplicably, a ''hatchet''. Said hatchet's intended use? ''Slicing the brain stem.''
** Though it works pretty well for getting through that pesky skull, too.

** In the A&E DLC there's an achievement for using the hatchet to [[EyeScream remove the eyes]].

* BraggingRightsReward: An A++ rating on all surgeries gets you a fancy certificate. Beating the ''Meet the Medic'' bonus level gets you a little Medic figurine. The certificate actually serves a purpose following the update which added more space levels, containing one third of a code that unlocks the bonus level. Beating the [[spoiler:alien surgeries]] nets you an [[spoiler:alien head bust]].

* DropTheHammer: In fact, drop it right there on the ribs. Or the skull cap. Right in the middle. You'll knock out a lot of blood doing it, but a solid hit can completely detach the ribs in one blow.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The infamous prototype version of the game that was made in 48 hours feels very strange compared to the more fleshed out version on Steam; There's no persistent blood loss, there's less tools to use, the syringes aren't included, and the heart surgery in the early version is somewhat easier to perform due to the patient simply not having a stomach or a liver to dig out.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The surgical laser. It can cut through anything, but it causes ''massive'' blood loss if you use it on soft tissue. On the plus side, it is the only tool that can cut bone for no blood loss whatsoever (which can help cut the skull off cleanly).

* GuideDangIt: This is very much a trial-and-error game, especially if you're going for A++. The first few times you play the game, it'll be an achievement just getting through the bones, let alone taking out an organ. There are, however, several specific examples that go above and beyond that.
** The kidney surgery requires no less than five precision cuts just to get the first set of organs out. Then you have to get the kidneys out, which requires a spoon or some other soft object because they're positioned in such a way that you can't just grab them easily. ''Then'' you have to put the new kidneys back in at the right angle.

** The eye surgery is relatively straightforward, except for the part where you have to yank the eyes out. Even in [[BloodyHilarious this game]], stabbing pencils in the eyes is on the low priority end of potential test attempts. Then you have to shake the eyes out of the sockets once you've loosened them.
** The teeth surgery requires knowing that the tweezers will actually pick up teeth.

** The eye transplant is complicated by the fact that the patient's head isn't secured and they tend to flail around as you're cutting their eyes out. Not to mention the fact that the eyes have five different cut points and bleed profusely as you're doing it.

** In a non-achievement related note, doesn't the laser look like a [[DoctorWho certain screwdriver?]]

** In the A&E DLC there's an achievement for using the hatchet to [[EyeScream remove eyes.]]

* BizarreAlienBiology: [[spoiler:The alien surgery has a bunch of organs with nonsensical names, and each time only one out of six is the right one. Among them is a stomach ball, a glowing intestine, some kind of living creature which makes noise when you detach it, a purple lung, an orange heart-like thing that causes hallucination if you touch the spikes, and a cybernetic implant.]]
** [[spoiler:The alien organs doubles as an easter egg: Each organ will have a randomized name based on [=YouTubers=] whom played the game, including LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} and [[Creator/AchievementHunter Gavin Free and Michael Jones]].]]

* BonusLevel: The [[spoiler:space heart surgery]] was initially this, unlocked once you beat the rest of the game. The game was then updated, adding two more levels based on the other two surgeries and making the bonus level part of the regular rotation. The new bonus level requires figuring out the code to the keypad in the final level, unlocking the [[spoiler:alien surgery]].
* BoringButPractical: A combination of the bone saw and a scalpel can beat pretty much every level with an A++ rating.

* BraggingRightsReward: An A++ rating on all surgeries gets you a fancy certificate. Beating the ''Meet the Medic'' bonus level gets you a little Medic figurine. The certificate actually serves a purpose following the update which added [[spoiler:more space levels]], containing one third of a code that unlocks the bonus level.

* EyeScream: The eye transplants from the DLC. As if the fact that you have to rip out your patient's eyes wasn't enough, the recommended way to make them come out of their sockets is to ''jam a pencil into each one with full force and then yank it out.'' Then, just for fun, you can stuff fake eyes back in the hole, ''and it still counts''.

** Ambulance mode randomly tosses objects in the air and throws your hand side to side as a consequence of the vehicle swerving. [[spoiler:Space mode removes gravity, which makes it even harder to grab objects and keep them in place.]]
** Corridor mode in the Ipad version and the A&E Steam DLC has your patient rushing down a corridor. Aside from putting almost all of your instruments in random carts you pass by, at random intervals you'll smash open a door, which will probably send everywhere whatever is on the operating table.

** [[spoiler:Space missions are even worse, since there's no gravity and you don't have limitless reach. You have to make sure your tools don't go floating away. Heart surgery ''requires'' trapping the heart in its case, because it ''will'' float away.]]

* MagicalDefibrillator: Once charged, all you have to do is put the paddles on a {{flatlin|e}}ing patient to revive them.
* MeatgrinderSurgery: Literally the only way to accomplish anything is to rip out everything between you and the organ you intend to fix.
* MortonsFork: In the Ipad version, repeated injuries make the patient's heart rate rise until he goes into cardiac arrest, at which point the player has to use the defibrillator to save the patient. Alternatively, the player can use anesthetics to lower the patient's heart rate... until he completely stops it. Whip out the defibrillator again...

** Corridor Mode in the Ipad version and the A&E DLC on Steam. Rushing down a corridor to take quickly the patient to its operation is a staple in medical dramas. ''Operating'' while ''you are rushing down said corridor'', taking your instruments from random carts you pass by, is definitely '''not'''.

* PhonyDegree: After completing 6 of the surgeries, a diploma appears on your desk that says that you're a qualified surgeon. It seems legit at first, until you notice that the name seems to be written on what appears to be correction fluid... implying that the main character actually ''stole someone's diploma and forged it to make it seem like it's his own.''
* PlotHole: [[spoiler:If Nigel isn't even a proper doctor, doing butcher-like surgery, how the hell did [=NASA=] send him to space to do surgery?]] This might be explainable by RuleOfFun, or [[ReassignedToAntarctica a way to get him as far away from Earth as possible]].
* RecycledInSpace: [[spoiler:The Space levels, and the hidden alien level.]]

* SequenceBreaking: In a meta example, the code for the bonus level requires deciphering three clues, each containing one, two-digit section of the number. As soon as people got the second clue, which was the most straightforward of the bunch, they brute-forced the remaining four digits (on a keypad with no zero, this is 6561 combinations to try). The answer to the first clue became obvious after that, and the third code proved to be the most obscure of the bunch.

* TheToothHurts: The [=iPad=] version and the A&E DLC on Steam have teeth transplants.
* ThisIsADrill: A cordless drill is one of your tools, pretty much just for laughs.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:By entering 296145 on the keypad in space brain surgery, you can do this to ''yourself''. It unlocks the alien surgery.]]

* UpToEleven: [[spoiler: Space. Think it's hard grabbing things normally? Try it without any gravity.]]
* UnwinnableByMistake: The ambulance [[spoiler:and space]] levels, with their constant motion, can potentially toss your replacement organs or vital tools somewhere you cannot reach them. It doesn't happen that often, but it can.