Clinic Nine

Clinic Nine is a single-player game about the pressures on doctors, made by Takiko Games. You are the doctor at a Halvorsen Health urgent care for 14 shifts. Twelve patients arrive each shift and there is time for about nine, so you decide who is seen, what is wrong with them, and whether to follow the insurance company’s policy.

Yes. Clinic Nine is in open playtest and free to play in a desktop web browser on itch.io. There is nothing to install.

It shares the cross-checking of documents, a rulebook that changes every day, money and family at home, and the moral cost of following orders. The rest is different: a present-day clinic instead of a border, a waiting room you triage instead of a queue, tests that cost time, and treatment decisions where the policy and the medicine can disagree.

Treating a patient the policy says to send home saves them, but about half of those charts get pulled by Compliance and you get a write-up. Write-ups cost money, and money keeps your household going. A wrong treatment is a medical error whatever the policy says.

One run is 14 shifts, each a working day from 8 AM to 6 PM with an evening at home in between. Your choices lead to one of several endings.

It is plausible but stylised: real patterns with invented thresholds, no doses and no brand-name drugs. The game never teaches a pattern that contradicts its own clinical guide, but it is not medical advice. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.

The first shift is a guided orientation, and the clinic adds conditions and tests over the first five days. Resident mode slows the clock, calms the waiting room and explains every mistake.