Two Point Hospital

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — mild
SimulationStrategy

What's in it

Dark themes mild
Low

Patients can die of their invented ailments as a game outcome, handled as light comedy with no distressing depiction.

Horror & psychological spooky
Low

Deceased patients sometimes return as cartoon ghosts that wander the hospital until a janitor removes them; the tone is comical rather than frightening.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Two Point Hospital is a comedic business-management simulation in which you build and run a chain of hospitals, laying out rooms, hiring and training staff, and treating patients suffering from invented, joke ailments such as having a light bulb for a head. Play is about layout, economics, staffing and reputation rather than any physical action. The subject matter stays light: patients can die from their conditions and occasionally reappear as cartoon ghosts that disrupt the hospital until a janitor clears them, all played for laughs by a dryly humorous narrator. There is no combat, no strong language, no sexual content, and no real-money spending.

How it's framed

The game treats illness, death and the workings of a hospital as an ongoing comedy, using absurd conditions and a wry narrator to keep the mood light; death is a management setback rather than a serious dramatic event, and the ghosts that follow are a gameplay nuisance played for humour.

Details

Developer
Two Point Studios
Publisher
SEGA
Released
Aug 29, 2018
Metacritic 83critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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