Games Like The Attending

The board is yours.

The Attending is a management sim about one night in an emergency department. You don't build rooms and you don't place walls — you run the board: assign the beds, staff the cases, and sign the orders that send people home or upstairs.

Your doctors are good. They are not always right.

Every doctor on your roster works cases their own way — fast or thorough, confident or honest about their doubts. When they bring you a discharge, you see what they did, what they found, and what they never even looked for. Everything they did is on the chart. Stamp the wrong one and the debrief will tell you the minute you did it.

Every intervention has a price.

Take over a case and be right, and they'll give you the benefit of the doubt later that night. Take over and be wrong, and you've spent trust you'll want back when the board is full and one of them is standing by the lockers ready to walk out the door.

The night pushes back.

Two patients with the same symptoms — one is drunk, one is dying. A family that knows something the triage note missed. A doctor quietly confessing a med error behind a curtain. The department never asks for your attention politely, and it never asks just once.