If you were waiting for an HD remake of Theme Hospital, then maybe keep waiting. This is a bare minimum hospital management sim that under delivers on gameplay to over deliver decoration.
Building the hospital is a tedious affair as you divide up the space and place the basic equipment, then you're introduced to the clutter - items the game categorises as 'decorations', most of which just exist to raise the hospitals 'attractiveness' and 'prestige' bars. They are largely gated behind a special currency that exists to drip feed you more clutter. Some of them give tiny bonuses to things but this is the only area any of the developer's innovation can be found as the rest of the game is pretty much identical to the 1997 release.
Gameplay gets old fast as you run into the usual management sim mechanics: balance your budget and wait to earn enough cash to expand your facilities to do more of the same. The game is littered with the same dad joke humour Bullfrog games were famous for which becomes tired by the 2nd of 15 levels, each of which follows the same formula of setting up the hospital and earning more than you spend.
Nothing special here sadly. The only substantive addition to this game is the aforementioned clutter system and when the developer's only innovation is on cosmetics that's a red flag. If you need proof look no further than the slew of cash grab DLC which can be sorted into three types: more of the same, reskins, and cosmetics. Sad to see another project with potential get phoned in and dumbed down.
Building the hospital is a tedious affair as you divide up the space and place the basic equipment, then you're introduced to the clutter - items the game categorises as 'decorations', most of which just exist to raise the hospitals 'attractiveness' and 'prestige' bars. They are largely gated behind a special currency that exists to drip feed you more clutter. Some of them give tiny bonuses to things but this is the only area any of the developer's innovation can be found as the rest of the game is pretty much identical to the 1997 release.
Gameplay gets old fast as you run into the usual management sim mechanics: balance your budget and wait to earn enough cash to expand your facilities to do more of the same. The game is littered with the same dad joke humour Bullfrog games were famous for which becomes tired by the 2nd of 15 levels, each of which follows the same formula of setting up the hospital and earning more than you spend.
Nothing special here sadly. The only substantive addition to this game is the aforementioned clutter system and when the developer's only innovation is on cosmetics that's a red flag. If you need proof look no further than the slew of cash grab DLC which can be sorted into three types: more of the same, reskins, and cosmetics. Sad to see another project with potential get phoned in and dumbed down.