Two Point Museum

Fun! So much fun.

fun game, entire game is based around an alternate reality full of sarcasm. Quite entertaining, the base game was WAY bigger than I expected.

好玩，很好玩，慢慢上头，先把生涯模式玩完

Wicked innit

It's good but i don't see myself playing it much, would be good for a family to play.

tl;dr: Better than Hospital, worse than Campus, with nothing especially bad about it but a thousand little irritating things that add up. Two Point Museum (Two Point Studios, 2025) is the third entry in the Two Point series of simulation games, this time putting you in the seat of a museum curator, responsible for designing and running various themed museums throughout the very silly, quasi-British Two Point County. In some ways, TPM is the logical follow-up of the previous games: while in Two Point Hospital you're trying to get patients through the system as fast as possible and Two Point Campus you need to keep your students happy and successful during their static four-year stay, in this entry you're trying to keep your guests in the museum for as long as possible to milk them for every last cent they're carrying. You do this through displaying attractive and well-researched exhibits, fun interactive features, and getting folks to stop in your gift shops and restaurants. Exhibits have two main stats: buzz, representing how _exciting_ it is, and knowledge, representing how much we can teach guests about it. Different guests have different desires, but it's safe to say that you want both buzz and knowledge to be as high as possible. A satisfied will toss you a donation, and get you that sweet, sweet cash flow to expand your operations. The keystone of this is, of course, the exhibits, and you gain them by sending various experts out on expeditions. There are several different themes available, running the gamut from the expected, like prehistoric fossils or interactive gizmos at a science center, to more creative interpretations of what a museum is, like aquariums and zoos. You send experts out on expeditions and they come back with a shiny new toy to display, and I have to give props to Two Point Studios for avoiding what I'd say is the last major unrepresented category of real-life museum: "♥♥♥♥ we took from other people". We do hate colonialism here, folks. So, expeditions. I'd argue these are _the_ core system of the game, and unfortunately this is where the pain points start to show. When sending out a helicopter, you choose a region of the world, such as the Bone Belt (full of fossils, naturally), or the Two Point Sea (full of fish and sunken treasure!). Then, you choose a location in that region, which will have a staff requirement and a set of rewards you can find at that location. Fill out the roster, choose if you want a dangerous, fast expedition or a thorough-but-slow one, pay the fee and send off the crew. They'll leave for some time, where semi-random events will trigger depending on what items you brought or skills your expedition party has. When they return, you'll get a shiny new exhibit to display, sell, or research for addtional knowledge. There are a lot of minor pain points, and it's going to sound like I'm just whinging - and I kind of am! - but let's go over them. First: the survey level. Each location in a region has a survey level between 0% and 300%. The higher the level, the better the exhibit you get, and you _want_ those Pristine-quality exhibits to get the most buzz. And without any items or skills, the survey level goes up... 10%. Per expedition. Or 20%, if you take the thorough expedition that takes twice as long. Early on, you unlock a craftable item that adds a flat 50% to your survey level, but using that presupposes you're not using anything else in that item slot (such as an item that keeps your crew from ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dying_) and, even then, you still need to send our four expeditions to get the survey level to 200%, the earliest level which unlocks Prisitine exhibits. And, again, this is _per location_, not per region, and each huge region has _dozens_ of unique locations you'll have to slam over and over again to get that survey level up. And the Zoo-seum DLC gets rid of this system for an _even more annoying_ system that does the same thing! Whee. There's also the events. Every expedition will trigger one or more events, which you can preview while planning the trip. Some of these events are good, like bonus EXP or a quickened expedition, but mostly, they're bad. You'll get various injuries, or if you're especially unlucky illnesses or curses, which need to be cured. Your helicopter may become damaged and need repairs. Your trip might become massively delayed, or the quality of your exhibit may go down. Or, worst of all, someone on the crew might ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ die_. Sorry, "go MIA". This is, of course, the nightmare scenario, since you really don't want your carefully curated and slowly-trained expedition crews to die, so you'll want to avoid those at all costs. These events can be mitigated in a lot of ways - crew with certain skills can add positive events or remove negative ones, or certain items might help, or bringing especially-senior staff can help as well. Counterintuitively, going on a hasty expedition adds a Helicopter Damage event to the pool, and I definitely scammed my way out of a risky MIA event by diluting the pool with a relatively harmless helicopter damage event more than once. Most downsides end up being annoying, with the exception of the crippling MIA events, which of course show up very often in later, more lucrative areas. I mentioned injuries, illnesses and curses as well. These are persistent debuffs for your crew. Injuries are fine - your staff will go get medical treatment on their own. But illnesses and curses are more persistent and more likely to have large downsides, like making guests unhappy. How do you cure them? An expedition, of course! I hope you have a spare helicopter to send your sick or cursed crew out, one at a time, to the one (1) location that can cure them. It's fast, but it's annoying to have to do, especially since you're going to get ill or cursed a LOT. And, worst of all, when your staff returns, you still need to go and interact with the helicopter as if it brought an exhibit back, opening a crate to reveal a mighty pittance of bonus EXP. I don't care! Just have my guy come back and free the helipad for another expedition! There are actually a lot of locations like this, with non-exhibit rewards, and they're all annoying to deal with. Sometimes they'll be training locations for staff, sometimes they'll get you resources needed for things like crafting science exhibits. But either way, it draws your attention away unnecessarily when it could have been seamless. As for running the museum itself, it's a good time. I'm not an especially creative person, but I still enjoyed making themed exhibits for each category and subcategory of exhibit and trying to make a mentally-curated museum walkthrough (not that the guests actually account for that. At best, it's helpful for tours, but the tours system is kind of half-baked and it's optimal to run tours showing just one high-quality exhibit, so...) I've complained in the previous Two Point games about their decoration system, where they want you to make spaces nice but punish you for spamming the same thing over and over again, and I think they finally reached a good median here: it's not too hard to max out decoration levels with some variety, and certain exhibits will want to be near certain themed decorations as well. Your museum will look half-decent without too much effort. This review is getting too long, so to wrap it up, overall it's a good time. I think Campus was tighter overall, and I have my issues with this (especially the expedition system), but overall Two Point Museum is a worthy entry in the series and I'll be there day-one to pick up whatever they release next.

好玩爱玩