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2019 Ranked #894

Clinic: Deluxe Edition

Hospital-building economic game where clinic owners hire staff, add services and modules, and route patients through care. Every design choice affects efficiency and popularity, challenging you to balance treatment quality with a functioning business.

Strategy Games City Building Economic Catch the Leader Pick-up and Deliver

Players

1-4

Play time

60-150 min

Age

14+

Complexity

4.01/5

Rating

7.64

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Your Town Center is flourishing, but as the city grows, the need for emergency medical care grows with it. Fortunately, you and your business partners have the wherewithal to build a clinic to help those in need of more than first aid.

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Your Town Center is flourishing, but as the city grows, the need for emergency medical care grows with it. Fortunately, you and your business partners have the wherewithal to build a clinic to help those in need of more than first aid. You quickly get a pre-admissions facility built to help process and route the different cases into the appropriate queues. Unfortunately, just before groundbreaking, your differing views of the ideal clinic cause a schism between you, and you go your separate ways, with patients already lining up in pre-admissions. Each of you decides to build the clinic of your dreams, trying to hire doctors, nurses, and maintenance staff, and build new modules, specialized services, and even parking, in order to meet the needs of the patients ailing in pre-admissions. This is your Clinic! Build it however you like to give patients the care they need, so you can make your Clinic the most popular one in town! Possible exhaustive list of differences between the Deluxe edition and previous edition: - The rules have been totally rewritten - The rules offer two sets up for beginners and experts - The rules include a solo variant - Many bonuses and penalties have been changed such as when a Patient dies in your hospital, the turn order has been updated and clarified - The box includes a bag of wooden laser cut meeples for the cars, the doctors, the staff and the nurses

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–4
Play time
60–150 min
Age
14+
Complexity
4.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Alban Viard

Artists

1
Ian O'Toole

Publishers

1
AVStudioGames

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