My understanding of 19th century medicine is roughly equivalent to my ability to describe the smell of the clouds on Jupiter. It’s essentially 21st century medicine but minus painkillers and handsoap, right? All the surgeons looked like Clive Owen and were addicted to bath salts. Still, I do recall reading that there was a lot of competition for access to corpses.
Every Monday, Clive Owen would need to carry out some awful anatomical experiment, like grafting nostrils onto elbows, so he’d hire a ne’er do well, probably played by Andy Serkis, to go rob a grave or three. And if Andy Serkis happened to return with the corpse of a rival grave-robber instead, well, let’s not split Burke-and-Hares.
New indie game Frankenstein’s Monster leverages this sordid energy, while also doing unspeakable things to the legacy of Mary Shelley. It casts you as one of four mad labcoats who are trying to build the best monster out of chunks of cadaver.
There are bodies aplenty out in the surrounding hand-drawn 2D world, which looks like Among Us but gloomier, and you can also pinch limbs and organs from the operating tables of your rivals. You start with an already-created monster, approximately drawn from the lexicon of literary monsterage, which you can send to do errands like beating another egghead’s face in.
One catch is that you must leave a piece of body for every piece of body you take, as per that much-quoted line from the Hippocratic Oath, primum non nocere – in English, “a chesticle for a chesticle, a schnozz for a schnozz”. So you can’t just grab all the giblets. You’ll need to be, well, surgical. At the end of each round, a prestigious scientific society will rate your clothing-horse composite of human leftovers. The labcoat who scores highest will gain reputation and unlock abilities for subsequent rounds.
It sounds fun, and it’s out in 2026. Shame it’s not out sooner, given that there’s a new Guillermo del Toro-led Frankenstein movie in the offing. You can read more on Steam. The developers are Tea Dunk Games, a three-person outfit from London.
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