There are all kinds of way to do horror, but is anything really more frightening than a hospital? Sunscorched Studios, developers of cult hit RATSHAKER, have announced MALPRAXIS, a first-person surgical horror set aboard the deep-space vessel TRH Rusanov.
You play as the “bleeding-edge” autonomous surgical system known as the Surgical Procedure Intervention Diagnostic Emergency Response unit, or S.P.I.D.E.R., powered by a BCPU (Biological Central Processing Unit).
As SPIDER you examine, diagnose, perform surgical procedures, and conduct forensic autopsies on the crew as conditions aboard the TRH Rusanov deteriorate.
You must treat the patients.
You must keep the crew alive.
The outcome will be recorded.
Faill too many times, and the trial is terminated, and the experiment begins again. Memory wipe -
This is not how it happened.
Death is permanent, and the consequences of those losses persist across shifts.
A trial consists of successive shifts, continuing until the failure thresholds are exceeded or the system determines the evaluation to be complete. This is your reality.
MALPRAXIS combines medical gameplay, player consequence, and psychological pressure. As you might imagine, a game this graphic comes with some content warnings. They include. but are not limited to: frequent violence, gore, medical procedures, body horror, invasive surgery, psychological distress, substance abuse, suicide, trauma, handling of corpses, and depictions of death.
Do you have what it takes to complete the experiment and keep your crew alive? If so, you can wishlist MALPRAXIS on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Heck, I may be too squeamish for this one. But it looks really interesting, so I'm going to follow its progress even if I'm doing so with my fingers over my eyes. Ow, I think I scratched myself. Where is that dang surgical robot?