Internal damage

Video game concept

Tracks and simulates the effects of damage to internal systems, such as organs of a biological being or the various internal systems of a machine.

29
games
8
platforms

Alternate names: Sub-system damage
Name variations: Internal health, Sub-system health, Organ health

Note that some limited instances of internal damage should not be included, such as only one internal component being tracked.

This can include: major systems (e.g. organs such as brains, heart, lungs, liver, central computer, databanks, etc.), support structures (e.g. skeleton), resource distribution (e.g. blood veins, major electrical circuits, oil/coolant tubing, etc.), and so forth (e.g. muscles, hydraulics, actuators, sensory organs/devices, etc.).

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Parent group

Health

Games by year

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The first Internal damage video game was released on July 1990.

Muse Games, Bay 12 Games and Subset Games published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 13
Linux 5
Mac OS X 4
NES 2
MS-DOS 2
Internet Only 1
iOS 1
PS4 1