Medicine and the Paranormal Are Natural Partners
Long before the scientific method, healers stood at the boundary between life and death. They witnessed things that defied explanation. Modern medicine inherited this legacy—the late-night vigils, the liminal spaces, the moments when monitors flatline and something inexplicable happens. Locums Nocturnist explores what occurs when a classically trained physician discovers she can perceive what others cannot.
Seven Nights
Experience a complete narrative arc across seven episodic overnight shifts, each building on the last.
Real Clinical Decisions
Manage authentic medical scenarios—heart failure, GI bleeds, acute coronary syndrome, rapid responses.
Atmospheric Tension
Slow-burn supernatural dread, not jump scares. Something wrong in your peripheral vision.
Meaningful Characters
Form connections with hospital staff as you uncover the mystery of a deceased mother and her baby.
Dr. Rebecca Thomas
38 years old. Internal medicine. The kind of doctor who reads the nursing notes first— meticulous, empathetic, and still haunted by the case that got away. Rebecca took this locums assignment for the money and the distance. She'll stay for reasons she doesn't yet understand.
Not a horror-movie victim. A professional dealing with increasingly inexplicable circumstances. Her clinical competence IS the gameplay—you make her medical decisions.
"She carries her losses carefully, like full coffee cups—not spilling, but always aware of the weight."
Two Ways to Experience the Night Shift
Both versions share the same seven-episode narrative arc and supernatural atmosphere. They differ in clinical depth, decision complexity, and accreditation.
Locums Nocturnist
General / Casual Edition
$1.99
$9.99
Experience the full supernatural narrative with contextual medical tooltips and accessible decision trees. Perfect for anyone interested in medical fiction.
- Seven-episode supernatural narrative
- Contextual medical tooltips
- Simplified clinical decisions
- Accessible to non-clinicians
- Track fatigue, trust, and clues
- Multiple story endings
Locums Nocturnist Pro
For Physicians
$14.99
$79.99
The complete experience for practicing physicians. Earn AMA PRA Category 1 CME credit while navigating authentic clinical scenarios with full complexity.
- ~1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits per episode
- Full clinical complexity
- Assumes medical fluency
- Evidence-based scenarios
- Real diagnostic reasoning
- CME certificate included
Seven Nights Per Episode
Each episode is a complete seven-night narrative arc—a fully contained story that can be experienced on its own or as the beginning of a larger journey.
Cradle
7 Nights
Dr. Rebecca Thomas arrives at St. Catherine's Memorial Hospital for what should be routine locum tenens work. Over seven nights, a simple admission spirals into something inexplicable—a mystery involving a deceased mother and her infant, whispered conversations that happened decades ago, and the growing sense that the hospital itself is watching.
Untitled
7 Nights
The next chapter in Dr. Thomas's journey. Details to be revealed.
Untitled
7 Nights
Continuing the saga at St. Catherine's Memorial. Details to be revealed.
Untitled
7 Nights
The mystery deepens. Details to be revealed.
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About NerdcoreMedical
NerdcoreMedical
NerdcoreMedical has spent more than a decade building medical education products that clinicians actually want to engage with. Founded on the premise that learning medicine doesn't have to be a joyless exercise in passive consumption, we create games, art, and interactive experiences that meet clinicians where they live—curious, time-pressured, and deeply committed to staying sharp.
Our catalog spans tabletop card games, clinical reference tools, and the Curative Design series of clinician-created medical illustration posters—products born from the conviction that great medical education is also, in some meaningful sense, great design.
We're a physician-led company. That means clinical accuracy isn't a feature—it's a floor. And it means we're unafraid to build things the medical education establishment hasn't tried before.
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NerdcoreMedical Digital is the company's interactive fiction studio, and its founding thesis is simple: the most effective continuing medical education you'll ever experience might feel less like a lecture and more like a very good story that refuses to let you go.
We call it Narratively Enhanced CME—the deliberate fusion of literary craft, psychological atmosphere, and rigorous clinical content into experiences that are genuinely hard to put down. Our inaugural projects, Locums Nocturnist and noctuRNe, follow clinicians navigating high-stakes overnight shifts at a small hospital where not everything can be explained by the differential.
These aren't edutainment products dressed up in dark clothes. The clinical content is co-developed with practicing physicians, grounded in real inpatient medicine—volume overload, ACS, GI bleeds, ICU escalation—and designed to surface the systems-thinking that separates good clinicians from great ones.
This is what medical education looks like when you stop apologizing for being interesting.
For Physicians
Locums Nocturnist offers an accessible base version for the clinically curious and a Pro tier carrying AMA PRA Category 1 CME credit.
For Nurses
noctuRNe brings the same seven-episode arc and atmosphere to nursing practice, with a Pro tier offering ANCC CE credit—reaching the more than four million registered nurses whose continuing education landscape has been dramatically underserved by imagination.