THE SURGEON

Save One in a Dying Town: THE SURGEON

The plague isn't just coming—it’s already here. In THE SURGEON, a grim and atmospheric solo RPG, you play as a medical professional trapped in a town ravaged by disease. You know you can’t save everyone. Your goal is much more intimate: keep one person alive until help arrives or the pestilence finally breaks.

Part resource management, part dark journal-building, this game pushes you to balance your dwindling supplies against your own fading energy.

The Doctor is In:
Create Your Surgeon: Roll for unique traits like Analytical, Sleazy, or Religious that grant mechanical bonuses—or burdens.
Choose Your Heart: Are you driven by an Inspiring Heart that fuels your stamina, or the Dark Heart of a cynic who saves tools at the cost of their soul?
* Advanced Medical Mechanics: Track the health of five critical areas: Brain, Lungs, Kidneys, Limbs, and Lymph Nodes. Use surgery to save them, but beware—tools break and infection is always a roll away.

Gameplay Features:
Tactile Survival: Uses a standard deck of cards, a d6, and tokens to track organ damage on a printable human anatomy sheet.
Strategic Actions: Spend your limited actions each turn to explore the city for supplies, care for your patient, or perform life-saving surgeries.
The Search for a Cure: Gather knowledge from old colleagues or buried family secrets to develop Penicillin and win the game.
Deep Narrative Prompts: Draw cards to trigger memories of your past, encounters with town "witches," or the haunting sound of children’s nursery rhymes in the street.

Can you weather the storm, or will the exhaustion take you before the plague takes them?