Alien Morgue lets you dissect extraterrestrial bodies in a narrative-driven medical sim on iOS and Android
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- Alien Morgue is now available on iOS and Android
- Combines dissection mechanics with investigation and branching narrative
- First seven days are free, full story unlocks with a single purchase
Yesterday I wrote about guiding a piece of bacon through the human body. Today I’ve got a scalpel in hand, and I’m cutting open aliens. Two anatomy-adjacent oddities back-to-back were not on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are.
Alien Morgue flips the usual medical sim setup on its head. Instead of patching people up, you’re figuring out what went wrong after the fact. Except the people in question come with wildly different anatomies, rules, and surprises tucked inside. It’s out now on iOS and Android.
The structure starts off methodical. You examine bodies, match their features against a database, and narrow down a cause of death. But that routine quickly bends once you start dissecting. Organs don’t always behave the way you expect, and sometimes what you find raises more questions than it answers.
There’s no timer pushing you along, which lets the tension sit elsewhere. Decisions matter here. You can follow protocol to the letter, or take risks based on personal requests tied to the deceased. Sometimes that means bending rules. Sometimes it means ignoring something you probably shouldn’t.
Alien Morgue pulls from familiar influences. There’s a bit of that Papers, Please in how you verify identities, but the physical side of it makes everything feel more involved. You’re not just reading entries. You’re actively cutting, extracting, cleaning, and deciding what stays and what gets discarded.
The world you're dropped in runs on a single promise – immortality is coming, and a powerful corporation controls access to it. Cryocapsules keep the wealthy preserved until that day arrives. Everyone else makes do. Your job is to cut open the people who didn't make it, for an employer you're already not sure you trust.
It gets more personal than that too. The reason you took the job in the first place is grief. Your spouse is gone, and working for the corporation earns credits that go toward a cryocapsule. Whether that justifies what you'll eventually uncover is the question the sim slowly builds toward. Nine endings suggest there's no clean answer.
The first seven in-game days are free. One purchase unlocks the full 25-day arc, all nine endings, and no ads.
If you're still in the mood for sims after all that, our list of the best simulation games on iOS is worth a look.
