![]() Initially the game has a nice steady drip feed of symptoms to manage, but it’s one of the criticisms I have of the game that this trails off after a few levels and you’re curing the same diseases. I even, surprising myself, became rather capitalist and started hiking up prices and rolling my eyes when someone moaned the mprice of the vending machines were too steep. In the finer moments it’s rewarding trying to balance the profit margin against the staffing. It builds into a frenzied chorus of demands and stresses rather quickly and there is a certain joy to running around putting out fires - both literal and metaphorical. By ten locales in you’ll have progressed from simply having the right staff at the right time to training staff to do the right job at the right time, and you’ll be managing natural disasters as well as leading your hospital. The game starts nice and simple, and with each new locale adding an extra wrinkle to proceedings - layering up your knowledge and awareness. It does sometimes have a hard deciphering level geometry from objects so trying to move a fire extinguisher can become annoying from time to time. It makes sense to play, and satisfyingly it seems every menu is never more than two clicks away. The UI is simple, understated and the controls work fine. Running a hospital and all its minutiae is satisfying, often overwhelming but never overloading. It’s got to give you enough accessibility without being too simple, and the best ones offer the depth to those who want to dig that deep and won’t really penalise those who won’t! I think this game straddles it rather nicely. 6 months later I bought it when that particular itch returned.Ī strategy management simulator is an acquired taste, and sometimes quite easy to muck up. It was a free play weekend and I had it on my horizon anyway, so I gave it a crack but once the weekend was done I put it down. ![]() When I first played Two-Point Hospital it wasn’t really the right game at the right time. Sometimes it’s skewed slightly into pseudo-board games like civilisation. Sometimes this manifests as running a city, or maybe a park full of dinosaurs. The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games ListĮvery now and again I get an itch to play something “management”. Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules ![]() Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases. You can develop vaccines to inoculate patients, and there is a reward if all infected patients are immunised.A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Later there are epidemics which can spread through the hospital. There are influxes of patients with specific diseases that need to be provided for. The flow of patients from a GP's Office to diagnosis rooms, and eventually treatment can cause blockages in provision. Still, you have to carefully consider the running of your hospital. "Animal Magnetism" disease is having animals stuck to the patient's body. "Mock Star" patients are Freddie Mercury impersonators. "Pandemic" sufferers have a pan on their heads. "Light-Headedness" patients have a light bulb for a head. It all sounds a little serious, but the comedic interpretation of diseases keeps the play light-hearted. You take charge of a hospital, similar to Theme Hospital, where you must construct and maintain wards, machines and staff.īuild amenities to meet the needs of patients and staff, expand into new plots, hire and manage doctors, nurses, janitors, and assistants to maintain the hospital. Two Point Hospital is a light-hearted healthcare simulator.
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