CURE - A Hospital Simulator

CURE drops you into Mercy’s nighttime ER during a very unhelpful outbreak, and it’s one of those weirdly infectious ideas that hooks you fast. Think Overcooked’s frantic teamwork meets Two Point Hospital’s systems, sprinkled with zombies and stream-friendly toys. The game’s strength is its co-op loop: triage, diagnose, treat, mop, repeat — ideally with friends shouting into voice chat. What sets it apart is the Shoutout/Twitch integration and the hybrid first-person-sim gameplay that can make small groups click like a well-oiled medical team — when the systems behave.

Night Shift at Mercy ER

Playing a shift in CURE feels like being thrown into a live improvisation. You check patients in, triage who goes to a chair or a bed, run diagnostics where available, hand out medicines, change sheets, and occasionally bash a zombie with a baton. Time and space are your primary enemies: there’s always more patients than hands, and decisions must be split-second. Teamwork is vital — with friends you can carve roles (one admits, one runs meds, one guards the entrance) and reach a flow state where nights fly by. Solo play is doable, but the workload and inventory fiddliness make higher hospital levels feel punishing unless you scale down expectations. The progression loop — unlocks, new meds, and gear — is satisfying in concept and fuels the urge to rebuild and optimize your layout.

When Diagnosis Becomes a Puzzle (and Sometimes a Flaw)

Diagnosing patients is a fun mix of reading symptoms and trying the right tool, but currently that system has friction. Players and community feedback repeatedly point out missing diagnostic tools (blood/urine/CT) shown in unlock trees but not implemented, which breaks some intended decisions and can feel like being told to “figure it out” when you’re literally playing a doctor. When the tools exist, the diagnostic mini-game gives real satisfaction: you’ll reroute a patient to quarantine, order a scan, or gamble on a treatment. The tension of “do the right harm” — euthanize or eliminate a patient-turned-infectious threat — is a bold, darkly funny mechanic that forces hard choices under pressure.

Broadcast Ready and Rough Around the Edges

CURE’s Twitch and Discord integration is legitimately clever: viewers can be sent in as patients, influence events, and your stream activity shows up in the hospital — a perfect fit for creators. Visually the game is clean and low-spec friendly; it runs smoothly on modest hardware most of the time, and the UI is readable even in hectic moments. But there are technical and QOL potholes: inventory annoyances (non-stacking sheets, clumsy personal inventory scrolling), AI pathing quirks where NPC patients get stuck, occasional crashes and a few balance issues with patient arrival scaling versus hospital size. The devs are communicative and active, which is encouraging — many requested features (difficulty sliders, zombie toggle, QoL patches) have been discussed or added — but some core systems still need polish for long-term depth.

CURE is a lovable, messy hybrid: it nails chaotic co-op and stream-friendly features but still needs polish in diagnostics, scaling and QoL systems. If you have friends (or an active audience) and enjoy frantic simulation loops, buy in now — the price is fair and the devs are responsive. If you want a polished solo sim with deep diagnostics and NPC staff today, maybe wait for another update.