Pain Doctors - The Game of Recreational Surgery is a Machiavellian board game, played within the gothic horror environment of a 19th century style hospital known only as "The Facility".

The object of the game is to become Chief Surgeon by taking as many patients as you can into surgery, with the intent of extracting as much pain as possible without actually killing them.

The game is packaged in a syringe-like clear tube, with a 18"x12.5" gameboard, three different sets of playing cards (a total of 161), plasma-colored, red blood cell-colored and white blood cell-colored solid glass game pieces, and a pad of medical charts for recording each player's score.

The cards contain over one hundred original illustrations by award-winning artists Alan M. Clark and Michael A. Powell.