(DISCLAIMER: This review was written for the game jam version, written by a participant.)
This game (?) is basically a looking-at-numbers simulator, and super confusing. The game is meant to be educational and it does include an in-game help but how it relates to the game is unclear. I also have no idea how accurate any of the information presented to us is; the meaning of the icons is not explained. I suggest readers to be skeptical by default.
You as the player can only interact by producing stuff like adrenaline but what does it do? No idea. Also, that's the ONLY way for you do do something. The rest of the time you can only follow some numbers which I assume are some measurement values of the body.
And this is the whole "gameplay". SUPER confusing. The help is not really helpful; I don't really understand what is the point of clicking the buttons. The help only gives you vague relationships but the info seems incomplete. It seems a lot more is going on behind the scenes than is displayed which makes it harder to understand. I highly doubt this "simulation" is even close to medical reality.
The "blocky" body shown in the background means nothing. You might expect that it would show something interesting like bloodstreams or chemicals moving in the body or whatever, but no. Nothing happens there ever, it's just background decoration.
This game aims to be educational but I believe it failed even at that goal because it does not do a great job in visualizing or explaining things or how stuff interacts with each other.
(DISCLAIMER: This review was written for the game jam version, written by a participant.)
This game (?) is basically a looking-at-numbers simulator, and super confusing. The game is meant to be educational and it does include an in-game help but how it relates to the game is unclear. I also have no idea how accurate any of the information presented to us is; the meaning of the icons is not explained. I suggest readers to be skeptical by default.
You as the player can only interact by producing stuff like adrenaline but what does it do? No idea. Also, that's the ONLY way for you do do something. The rest of the time you can only follow some numbers which I assume are some measurement values of the body.
And this is the whole "gameplay". SUPER confusing. The help is not really helpful; I don't really understand what is the point of clicking the buttons. The help only gives you vague relationships but the info seems incomplete. It seems a lot more is going on behind the scenes than is displayed which makes it harder to understand. I highly doubt this "simulation" is even close to medical reality.
The "blocky" body shown in the background means nothing. You might expect that it would show something interesting like bloodstreams or chemicals moving in the body or whatever, but no. Nothing happens there ever, it's just background decoration.
This game aims to be educational but I believe it failed even at that goal because it does not do a great job in visualizing or explaining things or how stuff interacts with each other.