War Hospital

War Hospital is a 2024 strategy video game developed by Brave Lamb Studio and published by Nacon. War Hospital is a strategy game in which players must perform triage, keep morale up, and defend against German attacks. Alternately, soldiers who return to the trenches can help defend the hospital, and soldiers sent to Allied headquarters provide resources used to upgrade the hospital. Engineers can produce food, make medicine, or upgrade the hospital, but they can only do one job at a time. Brave Lamb Studio, a Polish video game studio, was inspired by accounts of World War I surgeons, who said the constant difficult decisions caused them to feel desensitized. Though they enjoyed the gameplay and emotional moments, they felt the management aspects were "a bit clunky and inelegant".Tech Radar liked the moral ambiguity and difficult choices inherent in triage, but they criticized War Hospital for having occasional bugs and lacking an autosave. Though they said the game succeeds in its goal of making players feel overwhelmed and helpless, Sports Illustrated found it "quite repetitive" and "too punishing".