Two Point Hospital is a charming game which builds upon the original Theme Hospital. Graphics are good, the music is chill and interrupted occasionally by funny radio commentators, overall Two Point Hospital feeling like the kind of game you can sit down with at the end of the day and relax for a little while.

This is however my major gripe with TPH. In the 12 hours spent on the game at the time of this review, I never felt challenged by any of the objectives and levels. Every level is a pretty straight forward run, beginning with the reception, GP office, all the remaining analysis/treatment buildings, and then more GP offices to reduce the immense queues.

What you do doesn't really matter, money will come in regardless and patient deaths have very little impact. There is a risk of overexpanding, but you can very easily cut your expenses and recover, and once you get the pace of the game this aspect disappears entirely.

As you progress throughout the game, more buildings are unlocked, but none of them radically change the core gameplay. In effect, patients wait in the queue of a room, enter for an amount of time, and upon exiting are either cured, dead, or go to another room. Progression is tied to switching between levels. On each level you have to start from scratch and roughly repeat the same build, only with 1 or 2 additional room types. Your input as a player is rarely required in any challenging and interesting way and the game becomes repetitive quite fast.

On paper, Two Point Hospital is the kind of game I wish I'd spend many dozens of hours in. The base gameplay is here, in my opinion it just needs more depth and challenge (similar to Elite Dangerous in this aspect). I can't recommend TPH at its current price point of 35€, but I am looking forward to what Two Point Studios will work on in the future, the dev team does show a lot of promise.

Two Point Hospital is a charming game which builds upon the original Theme Hospital. Graphics are good, the music is chill and interrupted occasionally by funny radio commentators, overall Two Point Hospital feeling like the kind of game you can sit down with at the end of the day and relax for a little while. This is however my major gripe with TPH. In the 12 hours spent on the game at the time of this review, I never felt challenged by any of the objectives and levels. Every level is a pretty straight forward run, beginning with the reception, GP office, all the remaining analysis/treatment buildings, and then more GP offices to reduce the immense queues. What you do doesn't really matter, money will come in regardless and patient deaths have very little impact. There is a risk of overexpanding, but you can very easily cut your expenses and recover, and once you get the pace of the game this aspect disappears entirely. As you progress throughout the game, more buildings are unlocked, but none of them radically change the core gameplay. In effect, patients wait in the queue of a room, enter for an amount of time, and upon exiting are either cured, dead, or go to another room. Progression is tied to switching between levels. On each level you have to start from scratch and roughly repeat the same build, only with 1 or 2 additional room types. Your input as a player is rarely required in any challenging and interesting way and the game becomes repetitive quite fast. On paper, Two Point Hospital is the kind of game I wish I'd spend many dozens of hours in. The base gameplay is here, in my opinion it just needs more depth and challenge (similar to Elite Dangerous in this aspect). I can't recommend TPH at its current price point of 35€, but I am looking forward to what Two Point Studios will work on in the future, the dev team does show a lot of promise.