Doctor Flow

[url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/32482033/]Crim's Humble Opinion Curator[/url] Doctor Flow is an interesting concept game where you have to diagnose treatments to several patients using flow tree like puzzles and programming mechanics. The puzzle mechanics work a lot like an if than statement. The patients travel through a node. If they have this than they go this way; else they go that way. There are some mechanics that are introduced a bit later such as false symptoms that flip the way the if than statement works; and percentages. As fun and interesting as this game is, there is a lot of guessing when it comes to trying to get the correct and most cost effective solution. This game was developed with medical specialists as a sort of training tool, so I imagine the simulation of diagnosis is somewhat similar to the field. It can probably be easily understood that when working with small samples and variables that it is very hard to get it to be 100% right all the time. This game accomplishes that feel very well since you will be trying to boil it down to the most cost effective by running and tweaking things various numbers of times. The music is atmospheric but noth…

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[u] This review was aken from LvLRaid.com [/u] Doctor Flow is a drag-and-drop puzzle game where the player acts as a medical specialist who must correctly diagnose patients at the lowest cost to obtain a maximum score. Despite small glitches in the splash screen, the minimalist design and mobile game-like controls work in the favor of Doctor Flow, pairing well with its complex puzzles. In the settings menu you can find various theme options to add a dimension of color and texture to the game’s bare visual interface. This is a simple (but much needed) touch to the design, as there are no landscape/environment changes for the duration of the game. The gameplay consists of choosing nodes and constructing paths that will lead patients to the correct end diagnosis. There are 41 levels (or scenarios), with a possibility of earning two hearts which is considered a perfect score. At a certain point in the game, you will reach a level that has a seemingly simple and straightforward solution, with only one node and two possible diagnoses. When running the supposed correct configuration for this level, the player will be met with a curious incongruity. It seems the patients funneling thr…

Honestly, the game describes itself as being a doctor doing tests on patients, but all you're doing is sorting squares and triangles and circles there's no i'm a doctor story at all except for the name of the game and the intro vid. If the game had some story to it (patient comes in with chest pain and this and that sympton) and it would actually do symptons it would be fun, but just sorting squares and triangles with no reason is rather boring ;(

Cute little brain wrecker! Does what it says on the box.

Considering that this game started off as a training-tool, it's both surprisingly difficult and a lot of fun! + the layout is simple, but attractive + the gameplay is easy to pick up, but difficult to master + the game teaches you how to solve problems by using conditionals (even if you're not a programmer) - there is no option to toggle languages from the menu (you appear to be stuck with your system's language) - there is no clear way to analyse your actions and their results other than to restart/retry (a "rewind"-function would REALLY help!) - there is no real sense of urgency (no timer, your "patients" are effectively immortal until you actually start the clinical trials) I would, all in all, definitely recommend the game if you enjoy logic-puzzles.