Game Idea: Survival Horror Surgery

So I’ve been watching a guy on YouTube recently who goes by the name of NakeyJakey. He’s one of those sort of analysis, video essay channels and the guy who hosts it is very funny, just search up his name and check him out. On his channel he has a series of videos called “Games that should bang” where he talks about two games that have ideas in them that he thinks would work well together. So while I was at work spacing out into my monitor on my slow day I had my own games that should bang idea and I’d like to share it with you. 

Survival Horror is getting a bit of time in the spotlight as of late with the success of the remake of Resident Evil 2 and its well deserved since it’s an extremely good remake. One genre however that doesn’t get enough love is the surgery simulator. Surgeon Simulator on PC gave people a fair bit of entertainment but the true king of the genre is Trauma Center. 

Trauma Center is a game where you play as a surgeon and it starts out fairly mundane but at the end of the game you’re fighting super parasites, diffusing bombs and fighting global bio terrorism, it’s great. It was originally released for the DS but had some great entries on the Wii and one on the Wii U, if you can get your hands on them you should absolutely try them out. 

So how do you get a game out of a survival horror and an action puzzle surgery game? Well if we imagine it as if Trauma Center and Resident Evil has a cross over game, I imagine it as a sort of maybe open world games where S.TA.R.S accompanied by Derek Stiles would go into an infected area where they might be a person or group of people infected with T, G, Las Plagas, I dunno and you have to uninfect them. You’d either have to escort the doctor, the sick or clear out an area Resi 4, 5, RE2make style and then round of the mission with a Trauma Center style surgery sequence. As you go you’d have to find samples to do medical research into cures or vaccines to stay ahead of whatever the threat was and maybe other parties would be attacking or trying to steal from your home base. There could even be big RE style bosses where instead of having a big glowing fuck me eye on their shoulder, you’d have to stun them and then get them under the knife in a sort of tag battle type deal. 

To be honest the idea is probably shit, I’m no developer, but I just want to see more games like Trauma Center and if there was some wacky cross over with something that has a plot (very loosely) based in pharmaceutical science it might work quite well. Feel free to steal the idea and make it not shit, just gimme an Easter egg somewhere in the game