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Pain Doctors: The Game Of Recreational Surgery box art
1996 Ranked #21,212

Pain Doctors: The Game Of Recreational Surgery

A dark push-your-luck card game has players keep patients healthy enough for surgery while rivals undermine them. Continuing surgery raises potential points but risks killing the patient and losing the entire score.

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Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

14+

Complexity

1.5/5

Rating

5.82

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 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

A Mille Bournes type of game. You are a doctor doing surgery as recreation.

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A Mille Bournes type of game. You are a doctor doing surgery as recreation. You get one of your patients healthy enough to withstand whatever surgery you want to perform on him. Other players will be attempting to lower your patient's health at the same time. Once you do get your patient to surgery then it becomes a game of chicken with yourself. Do you keep doing more surgery for more points but risk killing him and not scoring at all. There are a few different systems at work here and they do go together well. The art and subject matter are very very dark.

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3

Mechanism

1

Family

1

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2–3
Play time
60 min
Age
14+
Complexity
1.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

3
Stven Carlberg Victor Oliver Michael A. Powell

Artists

1
Alan M. Clark

Publishers

1
Dreamsville Publishing

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