Two Point Games: Posters are reminded that this is the fun part

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The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Two Point Hospital is a PC/Mac buisness sim game based around running your own private hospital, produced by Two Point Studios and published by SEGA. It's a spiritual successor to the much loved Bullfrog game, Theme Hospital, and has been made by some of the original TH creators. Website is here, and if you sign up for their news email, you get a golden toilet for the game when it's out! Release date: August 30th 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFfpyyi0qEQ

If you ever played the original Theme Hospital, you'll be aware that it's not an entirely serious take on hospital management. Yes, you have to make sure the building runs smoothly, hire staff, build rooms and clinics, research diseases, and try and cure your patients, but it's all done with a huge amount of tongue in cheek humour that's quite British in flavour. You won't see any real life conditions here, as patients are more likely to suffer from things like Lightheadedness (literally their head has become a light bulb), or they think they're Freddie Mercury, or they suffer from Cubism brought on by looking at Picasso paintings for too long. And if, well, the worst does occur, make sure you've hired a janitor with a ghostbusting perk!

The aim is to keep your hospital ticking over nicely, improving its reputation to such a degree that you get offered bigger and better placements in other towns. So you need to keep your patients happy and get them cured, keep your staff happy and relaxed, keep everything clean and tidy so as not to spread diseases, and remain on the cutting edge of medical science! The hospital needs to be kept visitor-friendly so decorate with benches, plants, vending machines, leaflet stands, and definitely don't forget to build some toilets. Your staff also need to be kept happy, so their offices need to be nice, and their staff room spacious and relaxing. But always be aware some terrible incident can occur, and your hospital now has to deal with an emergency! All hands on deck, stat!

If you've moved up in the world, you can always go back to your old hospitals to see how things are going and improve as necessary. You will also have the opportunity to build training hospitals to improve your staff/unlock clinics, which you can then use in your other hospitals as you progress.

Gameplay vid from the Two Point team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtHPJiyaeOM

Screenshots:

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm required in the Pans Lab.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2018 23:05

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:22

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Oh, I hadn't seen that. That looks both fun and annoying. I assume you then have to drag over a janitor to clean them up.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 09:35

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

This game is one of the rare ones with a pre-order discount these days. But early!

Plus it�s a reasonable price too!

# ¿ Aug 18, 2018 19:20

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Big news coming in 40 mins on SEGA�s Twitch stream, apparently.

This close to release, I assume they�ve gone gold, or there�s a demo imminent.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 16:20

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Does it make a difference preordering on steam vs the Two Point site?

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 20:41

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Poil posted:

Only if it blows your mind.

(it has lightheadedness instead)

There is also Turtle Head.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2018 16:37

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

I played a bit of original Theme Hospital the other day, and I�d completely forgotten you can�t rotate the map.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2018 17:09

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Popete posted:

Ugh wish they were just doing a rolling midnight release. Looking forward too this, looks like a lot of fun. The devs seem to emphasis it'll be playable long term which I hope is true and its not just a set of "missions" where your old hospitals become irrelevant and you reach an end state after the final hospital.

The gameplay vids the team have put out often show going back to previous hospitals to see how they�re ticking over, improve them, etc.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2018 19:17

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Not Operator posted:

boy are there a lot of people upset about the ethnic and gender diversity in this game. Always glad to be a video games fan.

...in what way?

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 14:31

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Not Operator posted:

Just like five or six threads on the steam forums about there being too many nonwhite staff, male nurses, women doctors. I was looking for a bug fix and there's about as many threads about this as there are about Denuvo.

Ugh, of course. They clearly never played TH then, the game generated just as many non-white staff there too.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 14:37

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

That�s an arsehole move for your people that preordered it.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 17:09

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

I have to wait a few days until I buy my new laptop, and then I can play!

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 19:18

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

The Kins posted:

Free Weekend plus a new update that adds decorative items based on other Sega-published PC games... and also headcrabs from Half-Life because sure, okay.

Oh I hope the added imports from other games stay.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 14:28

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Mods, can we change the thread title back?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 16:13

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Is crabheadedness still sticking around or have I missed that boat?

# ¿ Mar 20, 2019 14:32

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Both DLC packs are 20% off in the Steam summer sale. :siren:

# ¿ Jun 26, 2019 16:02

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Unclouded posted:

�...you get to see them aliens.�

Ugh.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2019 08:15

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Mouse is infinitely better than touchpad for this. Just get a magazine or book to use as mousepad when you�re in bed.

# ¿ May 11, 2020 16:47

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Saoshyant posted:

If I were to just to get my feet wet trying this game for the first time, is the base title fine as is or is any of the DLC recommended to make the experience better?

There�s a lot in the base game to fiddle around with and play before you start getting bored (you might not even get bored!). Pebberly Island and Bigfoot are the DLC to get when you want to spice things up.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2021 14:45

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

There�s new DLC out today! A Stitch in Time is apparently time travel based?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY7Ih80XNzs

# ¿ Feb 23, 2021 19:41

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

They've announced a new game! Two Point Campus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_14i0Zxsfos

# ¿ Jun 11, 2021 11:26

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Yeah, there seems to be lots of things going on there. Dorms, classrooms/lecture theatres, dining halls, janitors, professors� offices, extra-curricular things, research depts, etc. That�s a lot of moving parts to manage.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2021 11:47

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Mods, can we change the thread title please?

# ¿ Aug 9, 2022 17:05

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Two Point Theme Park feels like it�s in the works.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 13:15

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Two Point Space Station

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 14:13

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

CuddleCryptid posted:

Two Point Airline

"Customers are reminded that if you missed your connecting flight then it's your fault for not flying direct"

Ah, you�ve flown with Ryanair too?

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 16:07

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

I dunno, that seems pretty accurate. I had two buildings on my university campus that were absolute mazes, and people regularly got lost in.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2022 21:12

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:22

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

SPAAAAAAACE! :dance:

# ¿ Nov 29, 2022 18:19

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