The Patient

The Patient is an atmospheric horror puzzle game in which you play Dr. Ellen Reed, a therapist returning from maternity leave for an overnight shift at Bliss Park Medical in Bliss Park, Illinois. On October 3, 1994, after storms cause a hospital-wide power outage and destroy most medical records, your supervisor, Dr. Evander Walsh, leaves text files on your computer to explain the situation.

One of your patients was mistakenly given a deadly experimental drug, and 10 inpatients have been quarantined in Block 3. You have limited time to identify the infected patient and carry out Dr. Walsh’s instructions. Explore the psychiatric section and keep watch over the patients throughout the night, making sure their cell lights stay off when the outage causes them to flicker back on.

Find the patient

The clue you need is in the file room, but its door is locked. Use the basement disk writer to copy backup patient logs onto a floppy disk, then transfer them to your office computer. Review the logs for corruption or anomalies that could help you unlock the file room. The patients’ names, shown on clipboards outside their doors, help you match them to their folders inside.

Once you have identified the afflicted patient, pull them from the electrical room control panel in an attempt to end the nightmare.