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SimHealth came out in 1994 as part of the MS-DOS Classic Games lineup, developed by Maxis. It was a time when simulation games were branching out from city builders into more complex social systems, and this one took on the American healthcare system. You don't build roads or power plants here; you try to manage a national health policy without bankrupting the country or letting your citizens get too sick.

You control the budget and policy levers for an entire healthcare system, setting insurance premiums, hospital funding, and research priorities. The main objective is to balance cost, access, and quality of care over a set number of years. Signature mechanics include adjusting sliders for different care categories and watching a population simulator react to your choices in real time; the pacing is deliberate, almost academic, and the difficulty comes from the competing demands of patients, providers, and taxpayers. It feels like trying to solve a puzzle where every piece has a complaint.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".