In Theme Hospital, patients could get a disease called Bloaty Head. I love the quirky illnesses these little people get. It truly captures best of the classic that inspired it and builds upon it.

Which is great, because a modern day successor was something I’d wished for. The influence that Theme Hospital bestows on Two Point Hospital extends beyond the unique gameplay. It’s pretty boilerplate stuff for games of this genre, and the overall goal is to build a self-sustaining hospital that can operate on its own. You’re guided by a couple of goals that unlock progress into the next hospital, in which the difficulty goes up and you get more stuff to play with. All the broad management decisions are yours and yours alone to make. You pick out rooms, make the hiring decisions for the doctors, nurses, assistants and janitors who will keep your hospital running. Two Point Hospital begins in Two Point County, where you are charged with setting up and designing the hospital to your specifications. Waves of nostalgia poured in with the long hours I’ve played. system in which the lady sasses you, it felt so good. It’s an absolute joy, starting up the game to be greeted with pleasant music that stuck with me even when I was at work. Two Point Hospital takes managing a whole hospital to similarly comic extremes. Like Theme Hospital, this is a top-down, isometric business management game about hospitals that adopts a cartoonish take on the subject.Ī contemporary game you could compare it with is Surgeon Simulator, the laugh out loud “simulation” of what it’s like to be an ambulance surgeon. I played Theme Hospital back in the day, and it’s quite the gem, so I didn’t want to be let down by Two Point Hospital. I have to admit that being assigned to review this made me scared and excited.

Two Point Hospital is the spiritual successor to 1997’s Theme Hospital.

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