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I thought this would be like Trauma Center, but with your finger, rather than a stylus or Wiimote, standing in for scalpels, tweezers and the like.

It’s not.

It’s a tilt-controlled Qix clone with medical theming.

Luckily, it also happens to be great fun. The controls work well and it’s polished and the difficulty is based on your level, which can go down as well as up, so it’ll never get too hard.

The best part, though, is that it uses people from your contact list as patients.

I felt pretty awful when I killed my sister last night.

The only really eyebrow-raising part of the game is that it seems to only give you twenty-four real hours to save a patient, so you’ve got to play every day or they’ll die. Seems a bit harsh.

This version is free and is supported by some pretty ignorable ads, by the way. I’ll take a small ad at the bottom of the menu screen for a free game, but I don’t like how long it takes to download your data from the net every time you start the game.