Does death tickle your fancy but your “friends” keep asking you to change the topic of conversation? The Challenge Mode is here to satisfy your frankly bizarre tastes with mortality rates that only a Hardcore Hospital Gamer can subdue! If harrowing difficulty isn’t enough, Challenge Mode also brings shiny, golden trophies for the fraction of Directors who survive succeed.
Posted on: May 26, 2024
P1na
Verified ownerGames: 2056 Reviews: 4
absolutely NOT Theme hospital in space
It looks like Theme/Two point hospital, it sounds like it, but it's not it. This is a very casual experience with a cute and funny paint, but with no bite at all. Seems like devs wanted this accessible, so they slashed staff (can only hire doctors), made research and training pointless, showered you with in game cash, added a random stuff vendor for some reason, removed all specialized diagnostic rooms... It's depressing how gutted the whole experience is. It's fine to make an easy experience inspired by theme hospital, but when the team that made War for the Overworld presents a Theme hospital lookalike and says on its description that they are "hungry to push that genre’s character and complexity forward", a simplified lookalike like this is absolutely not what I expect. At least have difficulty options or something. I'm giving it 3 stars because, objectively, it's not a bad game. It has some bugs on release, but I've seen them patch it up in real time, so I'm sure it will be better later on. The presentation is also very pretty, with lots of voicelines (it really repeats a lot once you enter sandbox, though, so I can see it becoming annoying really fast). It's probably an alright game to just switch your brain off and watch. There are also a few innovations, I do like: Consultants are a nice addition, having some diseases require multiple treatment rooms to cure had me excited for a bit, and being able to lock a doctor to a single room is arguably good but a nice option regardless. But I have no interest in playing further, and I'm quite angry at what I can only describe as false advertising. I would absolutely not recommend this to the older games' fans, unless they're the type of fans that got to level 3 on them and then gave up.
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