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    Oh I love it, but my ultimate favorite is the 1988 DOS gama Life & Death where you had to cirurgically remove the appendix (and there was also brain operation). The graphics were shit of course but the amount of steps on each operation was awesome. You have to cut each layer of skin, remove the apendix, suture each layer back not leting the patient bleed of die. Amazing

    Edit: You can play online https://www.myabandonware.com/game/life-death-h6

    PLEASE if you are a game designer remaster it!

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      Trauma Centre on the DS is pretty much that.

      Also Surgeon Simulator (and the VR port) but that’s more a comedy take of it.

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      Holy crap, I had this game and never once successfully completed a surgery. Everyone died.

      I was still in elementary school, so it was still fun to goof around.

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      I played “The Surgeon”. I think it was on Amiga. I had a perfect record. Not one of my patients survived.

      I believe you had to put in an aortic graft. I got to that part a few times before they died.

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    Dungeon Keeper.
    Pharaoh.
    Emperor: rise of the middle kingdom.
    Theme Hospital.
    Zeus.

    Gimme

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    Steam has a 4X sale going on now and the latest Theme Hospital spiritual successor made two spinoffs.

    They made a sequel to Evil Genius in 2021.

    Whatever interests from the late 20th century you think only you had are almost certainly disappointingly mainstream now.

    But hey, keep at it. I’m still holding out hope for EA pulling off a Dungeon Keeper sequel at some point even if it’s a PR stunt.

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      You’ll want to check out “Dungeons”. I recently played Dungeons 3 and it is basically an improved dungeon keeper except you can go into the overworld too.

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        I played them all. They’re not the same.

        I’d say that Evil Genius sequel is the closest we’ve had, honestly.

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      My wife just picked Black & White (2001) back up. That game has held up better than I’d ever have expected.

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        The B&W games feel weirdly… mobile these days. They put a lot of work into that 3D hand interface and it turns out they just ended up stumbling upon a semi-competent touchscreen UX.

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            The Nintendo DS was three years away. The iPhone was six years away (yes, Nintendo did it first and people often don’t remember that).

            My recollection of following the absolutely ridiculous hype cycle is that they were talking about the mouse being your hand inside the game and pretty much nothing else, but it was remarkable prescient in terms of how that would work without the mouse on the way.

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    I love Theme Hospital! I played the crap out of the PS version back then. I miss this type of wholesome humor in games.

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    Widelands is a great Settlers-like and has become my go-to cozy game to relax with at the end of the day

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    A handsome young cyborg named Ace
    Woo’d women at every base
    But when ladies glanced at
    His special enhancement
    They vanished with nary a trace