If you want to keep your head, you need to be a damn good dentist in a new game on Steam: Otherwise, your patient in Shark Dentist will munch on your head.
What kind of game is this? Shark Dentist is exactly what you would expect from the title: A game where you play the dentist for a white shark. It is developed and published by Alice Games, the developers of Broventure, Santa’s Letters, and Vacation Cafe Simulator.
The game mechanics are reminiscent of the children’s game Croco Doc: Instead of pressing real plastic teeth, you take on the role of a dentist and have to take care of the teeth of a sedated white shark. This is naturally quite complicated because a shark has quite a few teeth. And of course, it is also correspondingly dangerous.
The trailer gives you a first glimpse into the gameplay:
Those who want to keep their head must be clever
How do you play Shark Dentist? The gameplay loop of Shark Dentist is quite simple, similar to that of Croco Doc. As a shark dentist, you are in a room with your biting but sedated patient. In the mouth of the carnivore is a large number of teeth, which can have different conditions.
The fangs, for example, may have polyps that need to be filed down. Broken teeth must be removed. Infected teeth, on the other hand, need to have the infection treated and disinfected.
Various tools are available for this, such as bone saws, drills, hammers, and mirrors. It is also important to monitor the shark’s status and control the sedation. Because if the shark wakes up, it will simply bite off its dentist’s head. And of course, treating the teeth increases the chance that the anesthesia will stop working.
Soothing shark facts against a racing pulse
How realistic is the game? Unfortunately, Shark Dentist is as realistic as the Sharknado film series: In theory, it may be somewhat possible, but highly unlikely. The main reason for this is that a white shark (surprise!) does not need a dentist, as new teeth grow back throughout their lives. Problematic teeth simply fall out at some point and are replaced by healthy ones.
Moreover, white sharks generally need water to survive. They are even forced to keep swimming constantly to flush saltwater through their gills and thus take in oxygen. Hanging in a room, a shark would rather perish than bite someone’s skull off.
When Shark Dentist will allow you to live out this fantasy is not yet known at this time. According to the Steam page, however, the game is supposed to be coming soon
. Meanwhile, another game is currently heating up with its release date: One of the most wanted games on Steam is getting delayed, missing out on 213 million euros – now the developers are filing a lawsuit
