The Kindeman Remedy is a resource management game developed by Troglobytes Games and Published by 3D Realms. I missed its release for PC last November, but it has just been released on consoles on April 11th.

I love resource management games though I will admit I am terrible at them. They are too quick, and you get pushed to your limits, then a new resource is introduced that you are not ready for and there is too much to keep track of and you fail. I will usually try again, fail again, and give up. This is where The Kindeman Remedy won me over. The game has a slower pace, and you introduce new resources and mechanics when you are good and ready. This is what kept me going over the 8ish hour story mode.

You take control of Dr Kindeman, a disgraced physician hated by his peers for his "˜questionable' methods and a Nun, Sister Anne who will do anything for the good Doctor.

The only place that will hire Kinderman is a prison infirmary, which suits him just fine. No one will miss an inmate or two.

The Kindeman Remedy is split up into a day and night cycle. During the day you are crafting medicine in the forms of pills and Drips for the Nun to serve to the revolving door of prisoners. This is where the sinister undertones of Kinderman really shine. You can slip poison into the medicine to kill instead of saving you patients. When night rolls around you get to reap the rewards of a hard day's work by experimenting on the corpses of the patients that "˜died' during their visit to the infirmary and cooking up some more poison for the next days rounds.

You also need live subjects to experiment on for your grand discovery that will restore your reputation, to achieve this you need to fake executions to acquire live subject to "˜help' you with your research. Its quite a grim turn of events. Its not visually graphic but you are given a list of experiments that need conducting. I'm not a squeamish person, but it did feel a little forced to make some of the experiments as gruesome as possible. These are conducted via a simple mini game.

The loop is rather simple make medicine, cure patients, experiment, repeat.

At the start you are limited to the amount of medicine you can craft at a time, and it feels busy, this is where the reputation system comes into play. You gain reputation for saving patients which you can spend on upgrades like increased return from crafting or new beds so you can see more patients at a time. You can even hire an assistant to help dump the bodies in the furnace once you're done with them. You lose reputation for poisoning or not having the correct medicine for the patient. If you don't have the correct medicine for the patient they will leave and you not only lose reputation, but you don't have a body either, so it's a fine line of saving enough patients to get some time saving upgrades and killing too many that you don't have enough time to do your research.

There is no option to speed up time or forced new mechanics. You can add new ingredients and increase production when you are ready. There was never a time I felt pushed to my limits, in fact I'm not sure you can even fail.

The only downside I found to Kinderman Remedy was the moving of resources. Each character can cue up 3 tasks, if they are carrying something or are unable to perform a task they just stop. As you are playing 2 characters at the same time you can very easily miss a cue that you have done something wrong. For example when the day ends you are transferred to another part of the hospital, if you had something in your hands when the day ended you will still be holding it and you can not preform any actions until you deal with it, so you have to trudge back to the previous area, deposit the item and then go back to your task.

I had no problems with performance during my playthrough, however the controls were a little slow to move from room to room. I did find out you can jump around the infirmary with the D-Pad and quickly switch between Kindeman and Anne which speed things up. Its defiantly made to be played with a mouse, but don't let that turn you off.

I really enjoyed my time with Kindeman Remedy, it's a fantastic change of pace to other management games and scratched my morbid itch.

I have some bad news for all you Achievement and Trophy hunters, there are 4 achievements that require you to finish with different percentages of the remedy complete. These do not stack, so you will need to playthrough 5 times, plus some endless mode to mop up the stragglers.

The Kindeman Remedy was reviewed on Xbox Series X and is available on PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One X, PC and Nintendo Switch.