Foot Clinic

Genre: Arcade / Simulation

Players: 1

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Review:

Foot Clinic, elsewhere released under the title Foot Clinic – ASMR Feet Care, is an Arcade-style Simulation game released in 2020 on mobile devices and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2023. In this game, players take the role of a practitioner in a combination beauty salon and medical care office for treating various foot maladies… and then beautifying said feet.

Yeah, Foot Clinic is bizarre, and this game’s creators play fast and loose with its concept in ways that make it pretty clear they’re in on a joke. One patient may ask that you use tweezers to remove the LEGO bricks lodged in the sole of their food and then give them a skin transfer tattoo on the top of their foot, with the next demanding that you use leeches on welts on their soles and then paint their nails… and add a skin transfer tattoo (they all want these skin transfer tattoos, it seems).

Some of the feet you’re working with are suffering from some pretty gruesome maladies – some will have shards of glass piercing all over, others will be clearly broken with toes pointing in all sorts of unnatural directions, and yet others will task you with using a tool to remove a wormlike growth from within the foot. Suffice it to say that if you’re squeamish, this game may not be for you.

All of this is depicted with simple colorful 3D visuals with a simple, slightly-cartoony art style, backed by a light instrumental soundtrack that underlines a lighthearted tone for this game. It’s nothing special, but it works.

For the gameplay, you’ll largely just be moving a cursor around on the screen until you complete whatever task needs completing. The tool for each task will be automatically selected for you, and while you may be given choices for things like tattoo style or nail paint, you’re also told what the customer’s preference is, so you’re discouraged from being creative.

However, the real issue here is that this game seems to have no fail state at all whatsoever. There’s no timer, no way to do a task wrong, and no choices you can make or slip of the hand that can lead to failure or even any negative consequences of any kind. You’re literally just going through the motions of what the game is telling you to do, then doing it again. Then doing it again. Then doing it again.

Honestly, I feel like if Foot Clinic had a little more work to make it an actual game, there might have been some odd fun to be had here, especially with this game’s strange sense of humor. However, with absolutely no challenge to speak of, this ends up being an absolute snooze-fest not worth playing.

tl;dr – Foot Clinic is an Arcade-style Simulation game players take the role of a practitioner in a combination beauty salon and medical care office for treating various foot maladies. There’s an odd sense of humor in this game, and it could have built on that to make something interesting, but the game lacks any sort of consequences or fail states, making the whole thing a snooze-fest. Skip this one.

Grade: D

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