Hot Seat Triage Demo

Triage is easy—until your own brain starts lying to you.

Hot Seat Triage is an arcade simulation about the lethal cognitive traps of real emergency rooms. The waiting room is overflowing, data is incomplete, and every patient carries a fading aura: a real-time countdown to decompensation.

Select a patient. Ask up to three questions. Assign priority: CRITICAL, URGENT, or STABLE.

The obvious diagnosis is usually the bait. Every single case is engineered around a real cognitive bias built to fool experienced minds and novices alike.

Authored by an Emergency Physician

Every scenario is designed and clinically reviewed by an active emergency physician and medical educator. Grounded in established clinical decision-making literature (Croskerry, Graber, Tversky & Kahneman), the game translates abstract cognitive biases into immediate, high-pressure gameplay.

Game Modes

• Arcade: Choose from three shift lengths, chase S-ranks, and tweak the rules with 5 score-modifying mutators.

• Campaign: Clear 5 escalating shifts with a B-grade or higher to advance.

• Daily Shift: A single daily seeded run. One attempt, identical cases worldwide. Compare report cards and global ranks.

Expose Your Mind's Blind Spots

• Bias Profile: The game logs every misdiagnosis to build your personal "Error Fingerprint." Discover which cognitive biases trip you up most.

• Clinical Codex: Unlock entry breakdowns explaining why each bias occurs, how it leads to fatal outcomes, and how to counter it.

• Progression & Ranks: Earn XP across all modes and rise through 6 medical ranks, from Intern to Chief of ER.

• Competitive Leaderboards: Global, local, and friends leaderboards per shift, alongside 20 steam achievements.

Built for Gamers & Clinicians Alike

• Zero Medical Background Needed: Learn to read vital signs and spot red flags intuitively as you play.

• A Trap for Healthcare Pros: Experienced clinicians will find a unique challenge—cases are specifically engineered to exploit expert heuristics and muscle memory.

• Full Localization: English and Turkish supported.