S.O.R.S

[Logged online hours do not/will not reflect hours played offline] Alright. This game is so far -- even only half an hour in -- is not bad. It's similar in vein to Papers, Please in that you have a set job, a set accuracy for the day/week/whatever and you have things to study. Only with S.O.R.S you're a doctor. And to those of us who love watching House, you know how bad you wanted to be a doctor -- and to tell everyone they're an idiot. The game starts off easy enough, telling you that you can diagnose "life advice" to patients with mental health problems and soon progresses into Diabetes and somehow you get the treatment /after/ learning how to officially diagnose people. I can't say too much about the game other than that the plot also involves the Hospital being hacked and some hacker emailing you (yes, EMAILING. *gasp*) about not trusting anyone. I will update this review as I go through the game and possibly one day complete it. [EDIT: The medical knowledge in S.O.R.S is well done, it really is. The reference to Papers, Please actually tickled me because as I mentioned earlier in my review, S.O.R.S and Papers, Please play very similarly. So, onto my edit-- the hacker will ♥♥♥♥ you up like your parents when they told you Santa wasn't real, followed by the Easter Bunny; so all the entities of yesterday will hunt your parents asses down and hack into their lives and ruin them. The hacker will screw up the way your scanner works and even down to what's listed on your panel. Diagnoses will be changed or missing and you have to have them memorized. It's pretty well played and a nice concept that's furthering the plot and making me more interested. To that, well done devs.] But so far: + everything is hand-drawn so it plays very nicely like a flash game from yesteryear + the medical lab is kind of cool; you type in conditions you diagnose (through medically accurate explanations, I might add!++) + The email system is kind of neat too -- you make your decision through a day-to-day, shift-to-shift kind of way, though the impact of said decisions are not known to me yet + No voice acting! Which is pretty nice, but reading is good too. ... and healthy. - The email system is a little wonky to navigate as old emails do not get deleted -/+ Scanning is sometimes a pain in the ass but you get the hang of moving the cursor around - Can't tell patients they're an idiot So far: 8/8 would tell patients it's never Lupus again

Pretty cool game. It is a lot like "Papers Please". If you like "Papers Please" You will probably like this. It's a time management game that steadily gets harder and harder. Game has multiple endings.

UPDATE The devs fixed the issue for me, and finally I am able to move on! I am not to far into the game so far, but I can say I love the communication from the devs. Thanks Guys!! Will update review and video when I am further into the game! ORIGINAL [No Longer Valid] This game seems good...but I am experiencing a frustrating bug...or I am going crazy. Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUdGlxqzfLU&feature=youtu.be Written: So S.O.R.S to put it simply is a medical Papers, Please...it seems like an really awesome iteration of the genre. Here is the bug I think I am experiencing. When I am giving the task to look for diabetes...I have to see 4 patients...I meet my 4 quota then more patients arrive. I filmed for like 30 minutes, kept seeing patients to no end. I restarted, same thing.... Till this is fixed or someone tells me Im crazy and Im doing something wrong....I can not recommend this game

I really wanted to enjoy this game, and I certainly enjoyed Papers Please, but unfortunately I found myself getting extremely frusturated with a number of the mechanics, and it just wasn't the same as Papers Please to me.

SUMMARY: Buy the game only at a discount if you are really set on playing a simulation game of time management style and exhausted other options. It is inevitable to compare this game to Paper Planes, so here it goes: - MOST IMPORTANTLY: Game mechanics are not even near Paper Planes'. The scanning gets tedious soon enough, slowly moving your mouse is simply boring and does not feel like a skill. Rules are not as expansive as Paper Planes' and memory is a secondary concern. - Story is not as good and personal as Paper Planes. Characters you meet are not engaging. However, the setting and background story is interesting and original enough. - Failing or the level of success (number of patients healed etc.) does not function into the gaming as it does in Paper Planes (how much money you made that day). It is simply pass or fail compared to "ok you managed another day but you now have to be even more careful or 'you lost your son" or you will be disadvantaged or advantaged in the next level) Pros: - It feels like the designers cared enough to put out the best game they thought of - A type of game that severely lacks from the gaming world (hence I do not totally regret paying for it) Cons: - The designers fell short of the premise they come up with, this game could have become much better with something like upgrading options or preferring a game mechanic of speed vs. tedious mouse movements (Note: This is not about being impatient, it is just that the slow scanning does not necessarily make you feel like a doctor or anything nor does it feel skillful) - Easily becomes frustrating - The game simply lacks depth - The in-game mailbox system is not user-friendly Disclosure: Have not fully completed the game yet, but it is not hard to estimate how much is left and where this is going

Scanning is frustrating enough, especially with arbitrary failures on the diagnosis. But I draw the line when you reverse/mirror controls. I wanted to like this game, I really did. But right now I'm so mad I might break my mouse.

[h1]A Patient Diagnosis Simulator[/h1] https://youtu.be/tLXtbCmwWew In this game you essentially have to quickly discover what is wrong with each patient, and prescribe the correct treatment for multiple symptoms. It is very similar to Papers Please in the sense that you have a limited amount of time to sort through information and quickly get on to the next patient. Each stage adds new mechanics, things to look for, and obstacles which force the player to rely on their memory in order to succeed. + The gameplay is fun, you actually feel like a doctor as you scan for various diseases, observe the patients behaviors, and prescribe treatments while trying to beat the clock and have high accuracy + Later on you have some very unexpected encounters with a hacker who screws up your screen which forces you to rely on memory alone to make the diagnosis. + An interesting email system which has some pretty funny corospondance with your co-workers and other entities + The plot is pretty interesting, you are essentially in a future impoverished world where the government essentially provides for you and if you don't do your job well you become homeless. - There didn't seem to be a goal in mind besides just keeping your job. I felt like it could have imporved if you got weekly earnings and were able to buy upgrades or had some alternative motive for doing a good job. - The gameplay does get a bit repetitive

Interesting game...haven't seen much like it before. Overall it's pretty fun, and the story is interesting too. Here are pros/cons: Pros: - interesting story/set up - unique gameplay - once you get into the game it becomes a real challenge balancing all the diagnosis stuff - hacker levels change things and make you think Cons: - pacing's a bit off, with a slow build up into the game - text is sometimes a bit confusing so you have to read it a few times to get things Overall I'd recommend this game as it's different and worth a play (tho probably not to everyone's tastes).

It's kind of alright, it has a few interesting moments. The lore and setting is interesting, but the gameplay loop is kind of frustrating. The way moving the mouse too fast causes bad results is frustrating when the goal is not accuracy to begin with. In the later sections, with the Breasts scan and such - I kind of lost patience to go on. It makes sense with the game story that you're put against impossible odds, but it never quite feels like you're a badass, compared to games like Trauma Center from back then where you had to do a lot of crazy special operations over the duration of the game, SORS just kind of lets monotony and repetition sets in, going for a more papers please scenario.

SORS is the kind of game I am more than happy to recommend - as a really interesting experience, rather than a 'fun game' to play. Health care is abstracted, from finding cancerous cells to the way you talk to patients, and thanks to the time limits, each individual consultation is a race against time where you do your best to help as much as you can... But it gets harder as more things get piled on, and you will sometimes make mistakes, no matter how many cheat sheets you write out for yourself while playing the game. So if you're looking for a game that puts you in the shoes of a healthcare provider in an alternate future, give this game a go!