The 20 Worst Games Of 2025

Simulator fans who want to treat patients in the back of moving vehicles but lack the guts to offer amateur, extra-legal treatments to paying customers off the street, turned this year to Ambulance Life, a paramedic simulator that lets you respond to calls, load up patients, treat them in an ambulance that you also get to drive, and deliver them to hospital.

Job’s a good un, right?

Not quite. Ambulance Life may look good and run well, with an open world environment that’s more convincing than any Saints Row game, but its NPCs, their responses and all the dialogue feel thoroughly artificial. Yes, you get to diagnose, stitch, inject and bandage patients with all manner of injuries (blood and gore included), but there is a verisimilitude missing that is surely the point of the greatest simulators. Moreover, while the on-board computer helps you diagnose and treat patients, it is not always right and sometimes advises uses tools you don’t yet have access to, plus the post-shift scoring doesn’t provide any useful info to help you do better next time.

In all, Ambulance Life is average, safe, a bit repetitive (the danger of any simulator) and lacks the kind of next-level gameplay - such as realistic traffic reactions and meaningful road rules - to make it worthwhile in the long run.