Autopsy Simulator - Are you ready to walk the path of a Pathologist?
- Racula
- 9 hours ago
- 4 min read

Imagine this, after a career downfall and the loss of your beloved wife, you live each day shattered and exhausted. One day during a routine post-mortem examination, you find a relic of your past hidden inside a body.
Now, it feels like something just won’t let go…
Developed by Woodland Games and published by Team 17 Digital Ltd, Autopsy Simulator is a first-person, horror-simulation hybrid. Where players take on the role of a practice pathologist and study case files, created in collaboration with real-world forensic doctors, to help guide their dissection of anatomically accurate bodies to determine each subject’s cause of death.
Warning! Autopsy Simulator is not for the faint hearted, if you are squeamish and don't like seeing dead bodies, dissections of bodies and organs, then this game is not for you.

Autopsy Simulator is a story about a pathologist, Jack, who not only works the night shifts, but is also struggling heavily with mental health after the death of his wife, Alice. Told over 5 chapters, each chapter features a different police case regarding a body that you are about to examine, it's you're job to perform the in-depth autopsies and determine the cause of death. As you do, you're going through accurate procedures to find your answers. The cases and procedures seem academically and medically sound, presented with textbook accuracy while managing to remain very accessible, via simple mouse or gamepad movement mini-games. You’ll examine and dissect various organs, perform toxicology tests, take fingerprints and fluid samples and generally cut, weigh and suture various squelchy things. While bodies being autopsied must, of course be unclothed, the developers have included a menu option that can be toggled to blur any areas of nudity (though, like the gore, it’s all presented in a very clinical way anyway).
As the story slowly progresses, you learn more about Jack, by little details about the bodies on his table, that bear some sort of likeness or links to his wife that passed away. For example: Sometimes it's a body that looks like her or a scenario that resembles how she died. This then plays out within the narrative in a number of ways, the most notable of which is Jack’s frequent need to stop what he’s doing and quite literally pop a chill pill whenever something agitates or unnerves him.
It's during these moments in each chapter, that things start to happen and it starts to slightly feel a little more like The Mortuary Assistant at times, but not massively. Like sometimes the bodies will either disappear off the table or they are fully sitting up, also other things might happen as well and you just catch a glimpse of something moving in the corridor, or popping its head out of a door. There is another story underneath to all these happenings and in my opinion, it's just as creepy as the bodies getting up and walking off, but I'll not spoil it for you and let you discover this for yourself.
Overall apart from these little happenings, there isn't really much jump-scares or horror to this game, I would say it's more of a thriller then anything else.
Autopsy Mode Only
There is an autopsy mode only, if players are wanting to take a step back from the story and step into the shoes of a student pathologist instead. It's basically what the label reads, you are doing autopsy after autopsy, there's no story line to this part, it's kind of more like a sandbox mode. I would say, it comes in handy for those types of gamers that like to do speed runs and maybe see who can do an examination the quickest. It also gives players more of a feel to get use to doing the post mortem examinations, so they know what to expect within the game.
Detailed depiction of organs and autopsy cases
The visuals for Autopsy Simulator are a bit graphical, as you are dissecting anatomically correct bodies. The visuals are gruesome since the various bodies on your table have wide-ranging damage - from heads, genitals and legs missing, to burns, bite marks, strangulation and so on. I did like the accurate equipment and the gruesome nature of each dissection. If you then add in the grim nature of the morgue and the oppressive first person person perspective, it enhances the horror/thriller aspects.
Animation is in short supply and is often avoided outright by rarely having any actual (living) character models on-screen, there's only Jack and Ridley, who's always hiding behind a newspaper so you never see his face, apart from the bodies on the tables, these two are the only visual characters you see in the game. All other characters simply appear as disembodied voices out of a headset, or answering machine speaker.
Autopsy Simulator eschews a musical score and prefers to maintain it's realistic workplace ambiance, through sound effects and voice dialogue. To be honest, there rarely isn't a moment when Jack isn't busy talking and narrating. It's a nice touch to have such an abundance of voiced commentary. From his internal monologues, autopsy recordings, phone conversations and plain old frantic outbursts when something spooks him, Jack also talks us through all of his scientific findings, oftentimes turning medical jargon into easily understandable speech, it makes the game feel more realistic and accurate, as if you really were a pathologist doing a post-mortem exam.
Final Thoughts
Overall the game puts the effort into delivering exactly what it says on the label and in doing so, it presents several, well researched, postmortem examinations that appear medically sound and provide an interesting time. I did like Autopsy Simulator and the overall storyline to it, also by weaving a psychological thriller to game and to Jack, it does lead to some creepy goodness.
If you are into psychological thrillers and aren't squeamish about dead bodies and dissecting them up, then I do recommend this game.
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