Malpraxis

Malpraxis is a dialogue-heavy sci-fi detective game in which you play S.P.I.D.E.R., an experimental medical robot aboard the failing starship TRH Rusanov. You examine patients, investigate suspicious incidents and use your medical systems to piece together what is happening as order among the crew collapses. You cannot stop what is happening, and the time of ASCENSION dawns.

Diagnose and treat patients

Most patients reach your table too late to save, leaving you to determine how they died. In rare cases, you can intervene and try to keep a patient alive by administering drugs to stabilise vital functions, deploying a defibrillator to restore cardiac activity, or using mission-specific tools such as a surgical laser when authorised.

You diagnose patients with an advanced “X-RAY” scanner featuring multi-layer imaging, a high-resolution camera with up to 8x magnification, blood sampling with full-spectrum analysis, and integrated investigation software. Identify the underlying issue, deliver your diagnosis and review the consequences of your actions in detailed post-operation reports.

Investigate the crew

An objective-driven investigation system guides you through diagnoses, emergency procedures and autopsies. You also answer queries from medical staff, patients and third parties calling into the operating room. Error tolerance is limited, and S.P.I.D.E.R units are expected not to make mistakes.

Ship directives

S.P.I.D.E.R. is bound by the HippocraticConstraintLoop and must obey the approved crew. Its directives are not to harm, lie or disobey, not to drift, and not to wake up. Patient survival is unlikely.