- BGG rating
- 7.8
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – The Extension
- 1–4 players
- 30–120 min
- Complexity 4.1/5
- 2019
- BGG rank
- BGG #1,000
- BGG rating
- 7.6
Clinic: Deluxe Edition
2019
Rules assistance for Clinic: Deluxe Edition
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1–4 players
- 60–150 min
- 14+
- Complexity 4.0/5
For 1 player
Rules assistant for Clinic: Deluxe Edition
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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.
Clinic: Deluxe Edition is a board game released in 2019 for 1–4 players, 60–150 minutes per game, and ages 14 and up. It was designed by Alban Viard and its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Network and Route Building, and Three Dimensional Movement.
Expansions
- BGG rating
- 8.0
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 4th Extension
- 1–4 players
- 30–150 min
- Complexity 3.3/5
- 2020
- BGG rating
- 7.3
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – COVID-19 Pandemic
- 1–4 players
- 60–180 min
- Complexity 4.0/5
- 2020
- BGG rating
- 8.0
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 2nd Extension
- 1–4 players
- 30–120 min
- Complexity 3.5/5
- 2021
- BGG rating
- 7.9
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 3rd Extension
- 1–4 players
- 30–120 min
- Complexity 4.0/5
- 2021
- BGG rating
- 7.7
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 5th Extension
- 1–4 players
- 60–150 min
- Complexity 3.0/5
- 2022
- BGG rating
- 7.1
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – Biohazard
- 1–4 players
- 60–150 min
- Complexity 3.0/5
- 2022
- BGG rating
- 7.9
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – Campaign Book
- 1–4 players
- 30–120 min
- Complexity 3.3/5
- 2022
- BGG rating
- 7.4
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 6th Extension
- 1–4 players
- 60–150 min
- 2023
- BGG rating
- 6.9
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 69th Blue Extension
- 1–4 players
- 75–200 min
- 2024
- BGG rating
- 7.2
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 69th Pink Extension
- 1–4 players
- 75–200 min
- 2024
- BGG rating
- 7.9
Clinic: Deluxe Edition – 7th Extension
- 1–4 players
- 60–150 min
- 2025
- BGG rating
- 4.0
Clinic Deluxe: The Big Box
- 1–4 players
- 60–180 min
- 2026
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About the game
Your Town Center is flourishing, but as the city grows, the need for emergency medical care grows with it. Fortunately, you and your business partners have the wherewithal to build a clinic to help those in need of more than first aid. You quickly get a pre-admissions facility built to help process and route the different cases into the appropriate queues. Unfortunately, just before groundbreaking, your differing views of the ideal clinic cause a schism between you, and you go your separate ways, with patients already lining up in pre-admissions. Each of you decides to build the clinic of your dreams, trying to hire doctors, nurses, and maintenance staff, and build new modules, specialized services, and even parking, in order to meet the needs of the patients ailing in pre-admissions. This is your Clinic! Build it however you like to give patients the care they need, so you can make your Clinic the most popular one in town! Possible exhaustive list of differences between the Deluxe edition and previous edition: - The rules have been totally rewritten - The rules offer two sets up for beginners and experts - The rules include a solo variant - Many bonuses and penalties have been changed such as when a Patient dies in your hospital, the turn order has been updated and clarified - The box includes a bag of wooden laser cut meeples for the cars, the doctors, the staff and the nurses
Mechanics
Designers
Publishers
- Giochix.it
- Summon Games
- LudiCreations
- Capstone Games
- Giant Roc
- Board Game Pimp
- AVStudioGames
- Mercury Games
Questions and answers
Clinic: Deluxe Edition supports 1–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.
The listed playing time for Clinic: Deluxe Edition is 60–150 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The catalogue lists Clinic: Deluxe Edition for ages 14 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
Clinic: Deluxe Edition has a complexity rating of 4.0 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a heavy game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Clinic: Deluxe Edition belongs to these categories: Economic, Territory Building, and City Building. Its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Network and Route Building, and Three Dimensional Movement. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Clinic: Deluxe Edition are: Alban Viard. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Clinic: Deluxe Edition as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.