Not everyone will be happy stuck in a closet with a desk and a filing cabinet for company! As such, the 3×3 size guidelines for this building are just that, guidelines. However, the point of the game is to cure your patients, keep the hospital running smoothly and to keep your staff happy. It’s not a hard game to pick up on though, simply pick a room, for example, the GPs office, draw out the required size, which in this case is 3×3, and then plop down a door, the desk and a set of drawers and hey presto! You have your first room up and running. The game offers a decent tutorial that guides you through creating your first hospital, with regular pop up hints from time to time when a new room or disease is discovered. If you’ve played Theme Hospital, or even Dungeon Keeper or Dungeons 2 or 3 before, then Two Point Hospital should look very familiar in both its style and mechanics. Along the way you’ll encounter events that throw you off, people with illnesses you’ve never heard of before, run out of money (although not very often), and even encounter natural disasters which will make your life hell. It’s your job to construct the various rooms you need, hire staff, maintain both your wages and happiness of the employees and above all create a smooth running hospital that is good enough to earn three stars. As such, there are a few things within the game that felt a little out of place, which I’ll touch on later.įrom the outside though, you’re the new hospital director who has been appointed to a new bare-bones hospital – I say barebones, it’s literally an empty shell with nothing inside. However, with the lack of the main story, other than you’re recently placed in charge of a hospital – now go manage it, the developers have opted to implement some questionable mobile phone game mechanics. Two Point Hospital takes the management simulation genre and delivers a product that is both fun to play yet not too overwhelming in its delivery – at least not until the later hospitals. The overworld map has a ‘Godus’ feel about it – which is rather fitting… Have you ever wondered what goes on behind closed doors at a hospital? Are you too scared to visit one in case that luminescent head of yours turns out to be something more serious than a bad case of light-headedness? Maybe you watched a marathon of Scrubs and came to the conclusion that it was too serious and not silly enough? If so, Two Point Hospital is awaiting you to check-in and check out this awesome game… Yes, technically, Two Point Hospital is a sort of ‘clone’ of Theme Hospital, but it’s one which I approve of! The ’90s was a great time for experimental games and games which wanted to try something new rather than become clones of one another. It’s a game I feel needs no introduction as I, and millions of others grew up with the silly antics of running a Theme Park, a Hospital, a dungeon and even a magical land inhabited by giant beasts. Occasionally, in some simulators, once the player has grown a successful business, the game begins to lose its charm as it becomes less challenging.*Reviewer to the study room, please…* Two Point Hospital is Two Point Studios’ spiritual sequel to Bullfrogs Theme Hospital, a game which is most likely bigger now than it was upon release many years ago. These games need to remain challenging enough to keep players wanting to continue once their business begins to grow. ![]() However, they can't be so easy that players succeed too quickly and the challenge of struggling to build a business from the ground up is lost. These games emphasize growing a business, including hiring staff, creating buildings, expanding its services, and satisfying clientele.īusiness simulators have the difficult task of ensuring their introductions are easy enough to allow players to start progressing in their business. Not only do they appeal to business-savvy players, but they also encourage time management and, of course, finance management. YouTubers Life 1 and 2, Game Dev Story, and RollerCoaster Tycoon, to name a few, are fan favorites that have also resulted in high praise from critics. Business and tycoon simulator games make up a small but powerful genre.
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