Theme Hospital

Having owned and played the original disc-version since 1997, I am so pleased to see it on GoG for a new generation or haven't played it before or for those who want a nostalgia rush. The game itself is perhaps one of THE best simulation, or "theme", games out there and could still come out trumps to the more modern and recent sim/business games due to its very simple design, eye-candy/bright visuals & graphics and a mixture of casual/deep micromanagement gameplay. This review wouldn't be worthwhile without a mention to Corsix-TH. The brilliant people of CorsixTH have kept the game alive by supporting it through various platforms, adjusting the game to run on any resolution, fix an array of bugs and issues and overhaul the gameplay mechanics while still keeping the true Bullfrog-Theme Hospital elements. I have high hopes for the future of this awesome game, especially now that CorsixTH has reached a pinnacle stage in development (time of this review, it's version release is 0.10). While CorsixTH still have various elements to re-add due to the overhaul (Epidemics and Rats being the main), the core game remains untouched yet updated.

Theme Hospital is the first and best hospital builder sim ever made. There have been others that have tried to re-do this game and they've all failed. The humour, simplicity and flow are just top-notch. Modern game devs could take note of how this game is built and how it plays. I'd happily pay $5 for games like this WITHOUT any in game purchases on my phone or PC.

People need to understand; GoG literally stands by its name "Good Old Games" , and that some will have imperfections, and some on some systems, may not run at all - that's why customer service exists, and it's a waste of time for glitches and failures belonging to a review? I think it's more efficient to go there first. The game plays as I have always known it to. Amazing how, an old simple game brings laughter, frantic fun, and comprehensive. It's a bit like a city sim, only it's a Hospital. Last point ; I have tried apps I use PC and never a phone so I have used all 4 popular emulators. These apps are a money ink hole, whereas these games, even the new ones old by GoG, are aa great investment . I used to have steam long ago, and ran back to GoG , it's jut not the same. Also I own over 90 games, I get free game every so often which GoG graciously gives freebies to long time players (Thanks GoG!). Worst part of apps? try playing any of the elite or good pvp games, and you'll find yourself paying tons of money . Try this game , at least it allows you to appreciate the design efforts!

Well that's sort of what you do in Theme Hospital, except you'll find a sense of humor that Two Point Hospital (the spiritual successor) doesn't quite beat, a gameplay loop that'll make the manager inside of you satisfied, and a generally pretty good time. I will note, much like other reviews, the version bundled here is the original and has all the annoying glitches and bugs, so you can't remove destroyed rooms, epidemics will kill the gameplay flow, etc.... As to playing Theme Hospital, my suggestion is to use CorsixTH, a modern port of the game that adds some quality of life improvements to the game, fixes some bugs, and adds all the bells and whistles such as unlimited saves, custom campaigns (and an option to create them too), single scenario modes, etc.... So what are you waiting for? Pick it up when it goes on sale (which it does fairly often)

Oh my god, where do i start with this one? I already did video-review in Russian, so, just to sum-up personal thoughts: Its a great game. No seriously, not from subjective p.o.v. but from objective point of view its only one GOOD sim of hospitals. There are few more, but all of them are mostly crap. Your best bet if you looking something else is to look upon recent Hospital tycoon by codemasters. Wanna know what's inside of it? Imagine sims 1, which eaten some hospital sitcom, and they pooped out..yeh hospital tycoon. Ugly and dumb. Theme hospital is a paragon of hospital sims, with its unique 'Bullfrog's' style of graphics and interpretation, which got on hooked on steroids since it were featuring in theme park. Dozens and dozens of sprite animations (i bet they used renders and painted over them, but looks like clear pixel-art for me), memorable soundtrack (especially Atlantic and 60's-70's) and overall nice design and sound will leave you wanting for more over and over, and (like me) getting back to this masterpiece every year to revisit old memories of building hospital and fighting goofy infections (in world of theme hospital pregnancy is infection/injury..who would've known :D). By the way: if you want it shine on fullscreen on your HD monitor i suggest using CorsixTH reverse-engineered port to modern systems. Its currently almost finished (only thing currently not working is alien infection cure - so patients leave hospital right after they arrived).