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Critical Ward

Treat patients, build massive combos, create absurd builds, deploy automated medical infrastructure, and survive the escalating arcade chaos before hospital saturation reaches 100%.

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About the Game

Critical Ward


The hospital is at its limit. So are you.


Critical Ward is a fast, addictive and 100% arcade survival experience, designed to turn every run from a seemingly manageable shift into a spectacle of absolute chaos.


Treat patients, build enormous combos, deploy automated medical equipment and create completely ridiculous builds as the hospital fills with contagious patients, disruptive relatives and events capable of destroying your strategy in seconds.


The better you play, the stronger your build becomes. The stronger it becomes, the harder it is to keep it alive.

Master the chaos


Choose from characters with radically different abilities and playstyles, including specialists in healing, speed, crowd control, technology and strategies that completely transform the rules of each run.


Learn their strengths, complete their challenges and unlock new characters and ways to play through an old-school progression system with no microtransactions or paid shortcuts.

Huge combos. Absurd builds.


Keep your streak alive, stack powerful bonuses and turn a good run into an overwhelming display of power.


Turrets, prototypes, special items, skyrocketing stats and chained effects can transform the screen into glorious chaos. But a single mistake can erase everything you have built.

Old-school arcade action


Distinctive pixel art, direct animations and a presentation inspired by classic arcade games. Every character, effect and explosion of chaos is designed to deliver an authentic old-school arcade experience.


All of it is driven by an incredible soundtrack, created to maintain the intensity and make every run immediately demand another one.

Features


  • Fast, addictive and 100% arcade survival gameplay.

  • An incredible soundtrack that drives the chaos from beginning to end.

  • [p>A combo system capable of generating enormous bonuses.[/p]

  • Completely ridiculous builds and runs that never stop escalating.

  • Characters with entirely different abilities and playstyles.

  • Pixel art graphics with an authentic old-school arcade spirit.

  • Automated medical equipment, prototypes and special items.

  • Contagious patients, troublesome relatives and unpredictable events.

  • Arcade Mode and Waves Mode.

  • Achievements, challenges and unlocks inspired by classic progression systems.

  • No microtransactions: everything is earned by playing.

  • Intense runs with extremely high replayability.

The hospital never stops


Every patient you discharge makes you stronger. Every second brings new problems.


Build the perfect run, push your combo to the limit and discover how much chaos you can control before the entire hospital collapses.

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