First Cut: A Surgical Residency Simulator

The system is broken. You're the one holding the scalpel.

First Cut drops you into surgical residency at a hospital that's understaffed, over-scheduled, and quietly hostile to good medicine. Survive 10 shifts while the pages never stop and the coffee runs out.

The mechanic people keep talking about: the surgical timeout isn't a checkbox. You read the patient ID, confirm the procedure and the site, and catch wrong-site errors before they happen. Get it wrong and it counts. "That verification mechanic is actually smart." — player, r/playmygame

What you're juggling:

• 4 live meters: Fatigue, Safety, Admin, Reputation
• 12 surgical procedures across 7 patient types
• Real surgical timeouts + wrong-site prevention
• Pimping rounds (the attending grills you on medical knowledge)
• 3 difficulty modes, a combo system, 25 achievements
• A daily challenge and a global leaderboard
• An original 5-track soundtrack

Dark comedy about a healthcare system that runs on the people who care more than it does.

Free. No signup, no download. Plays in your browser on desktop or mobile.

Made by Dr. Jeff Bullock — PharmD, 7 years in pharma, 11 years as a CVS Health district manager. He builds games about the jobs that actually break you.