Organ Trail by maymay
Content warning for blood and gore!!
In this game, you must harvest organs from the bodies that your bosses bring in for you. Try to extract the necessary organs while causing the least damage to the body.
It will make me happy if you read the dialogue too :) There's somewhat of a twist ending.


- Game engine: Godot 3.5.1
- Sound effects: Recorded in audacity, and made in jsfxr
- Font: Indie Flower, under Open Font License
- Art assets: drawn in Procreate on an iPad
- Music: written in Beepbox
| Link | https://github.com/m4ym4y/ld52-organ-trail |
| Link | https://m4ym4y.itch.io/organ-trail |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/organ-trail |
Ratings
| Overall | 48th | 3.929⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 76th | 3.723⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 75th | 3.705⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 51th | 4.179⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 85th | 3.946⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 124th | 3.382⭐ | 57🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 12th | 4.073⭐ | 57🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 70th | 3.773⭐ | 57🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 46🗳️ | 88🗨️ |
Though I do find it weird that the guy wearing a propeller cap says he wants to blend in and be inconspicuous...
Such a well written little story, well intertwined with the theme and mechanics of the game.
Today I had to carve out the entire right side of the body, to discover that the heart usually sits on the left.
My google history log will let you know that I looked up walkthroughs ("mitochondria where in the body")
And covering up for missing assets with clever story-telling - Beautiful!
My reply awaits at Old Willow Creek
Love the idea on the Harvest part, didn't saw any other organ harvesting games so far :o
Great little story, i love the art and the game play is cool and creative.
Overall i ruined one corpse, but thanks to the power of time travel no one noticed :3
The game mechanism reminds me of Surgeon Simulator, which "helped" me a lot with my science homework when I was a kid. Ruined a ton of bodies to get a heart, it's a bit strict that you need to make the organ fully uncovered.
I just died from the shock when the figure in shadows said to extract the bloody mitochondria. I thought, that I will have to use a nanomachine or something xD
Really well done. The art is fantastic.
@adis I'm not a medical student, no :p Just a programmer who probably reads WebMD too much lol
@nyxkn Thanks for your feedback!! I went back and forth on balancing the damage mechanic... I wanted there to be some tension so it wasn't just like scratching a lotto ticket :p But maybe a timer like @frib suggests could be another interesting way to add challenge
@geraldfingburke I'm so glad you liked it, your comment means a lot :) I did see some other pretty cool organ harvesting games also!
@publicidadeba childhood urge to harvest organs? should we be worried? :p
Very lovely narrative and hand drawn art AND it's a compo entry!! I'm super glad to have come across and played this game, such a good gem.
- Good enough graphics
- Short enough (although I almost dropped the game on level with harvesting 3 organs, but decided to finish the game)
- Funny ending
- The game lack some guide on where the organs might be (or I didn't find any), so you just cut it and restart the game
- Harvesting organs is a good way of understanding "Harvest" theme. I was sure that someone will make that kind of game, although didn't want to make it myself
BTW Potion Craft is one of my favorite games :)