Two Point Hospital

Theme Hospital fans are getting exactly what they want

- Samuel Roberts

My hour with the first level of Two Point Hospital is comforting more than anything else. Like playing Cities: Skylines—or any other modern spiritual successor that aims to breathe new life into a mistreated management sim classic—it’s lovely to immediately know how to play a game like this.

The opening moments of a Two Point Hospital game feel pretty similar to Theme Hospital. I build a reception desk, a GP’s office, and a pharmacy. I hire a few doctors and nurses to staff them. I drop in some waiting benches for my patients. From there, I add another GP’s office, another pharmacy, and a staff room with a coffee machine, comfy chairs, and a dartboard. It’s a pretty weird-looking hospital with spaces where there probably shouldn’t be any, mostly because I know nothing about elegantly laying out a building. In each room, you’ll be required to place certain objects depending on what the room’s function is, but you can then spend extra money to add little niceties.