Galacticare

I haven't beaten it yet but it's adorable. Very easy game, don't expect a challenge, just fun, fairly mindless clicking around and organizing a hospital in space. It's basically Two-Point Hospital/Theme Hospital re-skinned for space, the campiness is a bit better imo. It's significantly easier than those games, but it also doesn't have the exhausting, over-extended missions where you're waiting for ages for the win-game. It does some cool ideas that the other hospital games mentioned doesn't do: like consultants - allowing doctors that level up with time and go between missions. This makes them overpowered in an already almost insultingly easy game. This being said, every gamer needs a mindless game for after a hard day, and this game could serve that role well. It's also cute and thematically harmless enough for kids. The people hating on this game for being too woke... sorry no one's hugged you in a while. But it's so sad to see that a number of people are genuinely upset that there is no racial or gender oppression in this game. Or the hinting, again very harmlessly, at some queer themes as light jokes (like an alien race unfortunately picking up gender roles from Earth humans even though this alien race is sexless... you also only see this joke if you decide to read the filler content when discovering the first alien race, its not even pertinent to the gameplay, it's just for fun headcannon from anyone who decides to read extra). Much like many child cartoons that have adult jokes thrown in harmlessly for the adults in the room that go over kids heads, the very mildly adult themes in here are not exactly the first thing to jump out at younger audiencess. omg, also the bigot who got mad in these reviews that your boss in-game is black and that black patients can "afford" to go to a space hospital, just, what a terrible place the inside of your head must be. Sorry racism didn't make it all the way to space in this game (again, a game that is clearly made with younger audiences in mind). If you want your racist and mysoginistic space hospital game, stop complaining and go make it, I hope you dedicate enough of your life to it and it sells so little upon release that you just waste your terrible life on your horrible game. stop yucking others' yum, go touch grass, meet a black person, and go to therapy.

As much as I tried to love this game, I can't. The game is hilarious. The process is smooth, and the levels (at least the first three) are easy to dominate without feeling *too* easy. You get into the groove fast. And it's really fun. And then the game save corruptions begin. I have done all that I can, scrubbed my entire computer, used both the steam AND the xbox version. I cannot stop the save from getting corrupted, and thus cannot process in the game at all. Sometimes it corrupts on the first level, sometimes your hours and hours into it. But I have never been able to get past the third level.

Finished my second hospital and now every option to play ends with a "Corrupted Save" and won't let me play. Can't restart, game just won't run past the start game menu. Past two hours, so no refund for me.

I've played this game obsessively, and I have a fair amount to say. I will keep the short review here at the top. It is as follows: This game is very fun and has a good brand of humor. If you like the first mission, you'll enjoy the rest of the game. It has glitches and bugs, but only really shows them after extended play and don't majorly impact the experience much. If you can tolerate that, this game's great, would highly recommend. For the longer form review, I have attempted to 100% this game in challenge mode, and had to give up on it because of the lengthy list of bugs and other issues I've run into the game for longer play. The base game story had barely any issues, it was well made and funny, with a heartwarming... Mostly heartwarming story and had a good feel to it, even if it was a tad on the easy side after level two. The main trouble begins with sandbox missions or missions with large patient counts. To state the numerous glitches I've endured would take a length of time and text, so I will summarize by saying that I've had the research system (vital for making your life easier) bug out on me every other mission, I've had text glitch in the compendium and ruin the very fun stories by repeating entries or making it unclear if the messages are as intended, or simply glitched out. I've had objects I was attempting to place vanish from existence, still extant in that I could see the various patients and doctors use them but I could no longer move them. I'm unsure if something has broken as computers have advanced and left this game a little in the dust, but it's been a frustrating experience trying to wrangle the game into the 'perfect' state for me to actually complete all of the objectives I want to. The game suffers from performance issues with enough patients, even with a fairly sturdy rig. This can be mitigated with the research system, if you manage to get it to work, but otherwise performance issues were not a major concern. I say this because it took me managing to put 500 patients per 5 minute cycle through my hospital before the performance actually tanked, and then it became almost unplayable. The difference will happen immediately, and can usually be avoided. Aside from that, I have very few complaints. Despite the usual hurdles of these games and ensuring people move to where you need them, it's actually fairly easy to maneuver patients and doctors around even if assigning them and keeping track of who goes where can be a bit maddening. I have no complaints about the gameplay itself, watching things fill up and watching patients get treated is a very zen experience, helped by the muted but still very good soundtrack. The only discomfort I have is that, in sandbox, many of the special events tend to lock themselves in a repeat loop of a very small number, meaning it's going to get very boring very quickly when you hit all of your 'available' missions. I also have not played the DLC. I can't comment on it whatsoever.

I just bought this game and it glitched three times in the 50 minutes I was playing. Don't waste your money.

Startopia, welcome home.

Encountered a game-breaking bug in Chapter 6 (49/50 clonal cysts, no way to get the last one). No fix available on the discussion forums. No way to reload progress and try again without restarting the entire level, due to the game's lack of checkpoints or prior saves. I was having fun before that happened, but do not recommend.

OK so yes I'd recommend it but it has a few issues. I'm going to list them because I have workarounds I figured out. I really do enjoy the game, it's silly. If you like the two point games you should definitely enjoy this one. Here are some of the things I found work arounds for/find kinda annoying. Not bad enough to rage quit or stop enjoying the game, but annoying. * Patients get stuck Every now and then you'll get a warning with a frownie face saying a patient is getting upset. And so far every time I see that it's because they're stuck. (It's supposed to be if the lines are too long and there's no food etc.) But if you try to make them first in line, hand them a machine etc. They just stand there frozen. If you exit to the menu and come back they start moving. It's rather annoying especially since it happened so many times. * Level 3 Mission There's a weird issue with level three, you have to treat some specific patients and somehow after you treat them all the mission doesn't complete. This one I had to exit the game and launch it again and then the mission popped up again, I completed it and it worked. * Doctors staying unassigned So you have rooms and you assign doctors to them. But sometimes you move things around. At one point it seemed to work, if a room didn't have a doctor (one went on break or whatever) another doctor would fill in. (You can lock doctors to rooms so they won't fill in elsewhere etc. But I'm referring to unassigned doctors.) Usually this works. But I've had a few times where I had rooms needing doctors and my doctors are milling about. * Can't turn off research If you have a research room up to three of your doctors will go in the room and do research. Other rooms you can "turn off" when you don't want it active but you can't turn off the research room. Downside is you may have three doctors doing research and have rooms that have lines going out the door waiting for the doctor. So I end up having to delete it so they stop getting stuck there. So far I'm not really seeing a massive benefit of the research room but if you have a good income coming in you can afford the extra doctors.

Very fun and addictive

Super fun game with lots of humor and a solid storyline. Very fun if you are into tycoons and building-type games. Reminiscent of Two Point Hospital, but arguably better.