Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator

just absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. do not waste your money. written by an irl paramedic

Ambulance Life has a concept I want to like. An emergency services game that focuses on assessing patients and treating injuries should be a welcome change from the usual police simulators. Unfortunately, the execution makes something potentially interesting feel awkward, repetitive and frustrating. Driving to an emergency and treating the patient are the two central parts of the game. Both need to feel responsive. Instead, the controls and interactions are clumsy enough to get in the way of the experience they’re supposed to support. There’s nothing immersive about wrestling with an interface when the situation is meant to feel urgent. The medical side should be the main attraction. Assessing someone, understanding their symptoms and deciding what to do should make each patient interesting. Too much of it instead feels like working through a prescribed checklist. Once that routine becomes familiar, the sense of being involved in an emergency starts giving way to simply completing another sequence of interactions. I don’t expect a game to qualify me as a paramedic. I do expect something called “A Paramedic Simulator” to make patient care feel convincing and engaging. Simplifying…

Not great. I'm a paramedic in the US. The medicine is okay. Not quite accurate. Operationally, I hate it. You don't attend the patient on the way to the hospital - it's always your partner. This is a driving simulator.

god oh god I hate Unreal Engine SO MUCH! I get that it is an easily accessible tool for indie devs but oh man performance for this game is troubling and filled with zero optimizations. I generally like the game, its populated and although the traffic is a little badly programmed, it is still fun in its jankiest ways, but it definitely isn't an experience I would recommend for people looking for a proper paramedic simulator. Meta Humans SUCK!!!

This is my first review ever. I bought this on sale, I was fire/ems for years and missed it so I finally gave this game a chance. While my review isnt about it being "realistic" (it kinda is to a degree). I'm leaving a bad review because the game is basically abandoned which is sad because it is fun. The devs have said "its just a hiatus, and we wont have funding until reviews have a better ratio" but they wont have one. You cant give a positive review on something that's borderline unplayable at times or that is so very poorly optimized. Graphics are not demanding enough to have to run 30 fps. It is also very glitchy at times. I hope they improve it, but I don't foresee it happening unfortunately. The fact they wont attempt to fix its bugs and optimization to raise reviews is so dumb, I get it time is money but you cant earn money if you don't spend time to do so. This game is completely half baked and I swear the code was wrote by AI, unless its on sale for $1 I wouldn't waste your time or money.

i enjoy the game is abit samey but if they did updates would be so good