Summary
- Two Point Campus refines the series with a more student-focused approach, combining welfare and admin management.
- Two Point Hospital struggles with repetitiveness, but DLC packs elevate the base game.
- Two Point Museum exceeds expectations by blending the best features of Campus and Hospital in a museum setting.
The simulation genre is nothing if not lucrative, and the Two Point franchise is Sega’s attempt at throwing their blue hat into the ring, encompassing museums, university campuses, hospitals, and more, the basic throughline remains the same: you inherit a struggling company in Two Point County, and through canny business administration you must turn it around into a thriving empire.
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However, different enterprises require different approaches. You’d have to treat a dying patient at a hospital with a bit more tact than a rowdy teen vandalizing your shiny campus, wouldn’t you? Therefore, the Two Point games each have a unique appeal. Which installment is the best, and which versions should you go for?
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Two Point Hospital
You’ll Be As Sick And Tired As The Patients By The End
- Franchise
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Two Point
- Released
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August 30, 2018
- Developer(s)
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Two Point Studios
Given that Two Point Hospital is the first entry of the lot, it’s bound to have some growing pains (if you’ll pardon the pun). It lays a decent framework that Campus and Museum built off, to great success; but taken on its own merits, you can tell they were still ironing out a few bugs. Again, pardon the pun.
The core issue here is repetitiveness. Within the first two or three hours, you’ll have seen every gameplay element that you’ll be dealing with… for the remaining 30 or so hours. Every stage is the same: copy-paste the reception, copy-paste five or so diagnosis rooms, copy-paste one of each treatment room, slap a few food stalls down, then just sit back and fast-forward until victory.
There’s a bit of depth when it comes to managing staff morale, since they won’t perform as efficiently if their break room is bad or if their pay isn’t where they want it to be. Likewise, the sheer variety of illnesses to treat, including dog and clown metamorphoses, is amusing. Sadly, it isn’t enough to elevate the base Hospital package over its cousins.
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Two Point Hospital: Jumbo Edition
Still Cheaper Than A Real Medical Bill
A mark in Hospital’s favor is the staggering amount of DLC packs that kept it afloat during the interim between it and the release of Campus. In total, a whopping eight rounds of extra content hit the game, and a sizable chunk of these come as standard in the Jumbo Edition for consoles, making it the best value prospect out of the box.
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Though it’s advisable not to touch any of the DLC hospitals immediately (they’re tough, relying on rooms and items you won’t unlock until some way into the main game), there’s a huge host of bonus knick-knacks you can add to your vanilla hospitals in the meantime. Sega anniversary stuff, antiques, arcades, the list goes on.
In addition, the scenarios presented when you do hit the DLC stages are more diverse and varied than in the main game, fleshing out concepts that the developers only briefly flirted with before. Off The Grid, for example, forces you to rely on green, eco-friendly power; a tall order given how many of your hospitals will rely on electricity!
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Two Point Campus
Summa Cum Laudable
- Released
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August 9, 2022
- Developer(s)
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Two Point Studios
It’s somewhat appropriate that Two Point Campus should be such an improvement over Hospital. Everyone knows that the first year of college is the one where you muck about and don’t take stuff too seriously, focusing more on your newfound freedom. Year two is when your grades start to really count, so it’s time to knuckle down and crank out your best effort.
Campus, then, is to the series what that second year of actual university is to a student. It’s a more refined, confident outing that nips and tucks the rough edges of Hospital into a satisfying whole. Here, you aren’t just managing the admin side of things from a cold, calculated distance – you’re maintaining the welfare of each of your procedurally-generated students.
Sure, you can encourage your young charges to party the night away… but then they’re likely to flunk a test or skip a crucial class the next day. Hey, we’ve all been there. Top this new people-centric focus off with the robust business simulation mechanics of Hospital, and you’ve got a real winner.
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Two Point Campus: Brainy Bundle
Top Of Its Class
Campus is dwarfed in the DLC department by Hospital in terms of raw numbers. It’s rocking a meager three packs against Hospital’s eight, but don’t be fooled. The core gameplay of Campus is just so fun in itself that any excuse to spend a little longer in its madcap world is a welcome one.
Brainy Bundle crams in all three updates and the variety on offer is dizzying. The first, Medical School, teams you up with one Mr. Vitality Johnson (his parents must have been so proud) to cure the likes of pirates, Bigfoot, and more. Space Academy, meanwhile, rockets you to the stars, and allows you to train your students to be future NASA hopefuls.
Finally, School Spirits goes full Beetlejuice and sees you assisting in the bureaucracy of the afterlife. Ghosts apparently have a thirst for knowledge, too, and you’ll be getting very familiar with these ghastly graduates throughout the campaign. All told, the Brainy Bundle just can’t be beat.
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Two Point Museum
Delight At The Museum
Simulation
Strategy
Life Simulation
City Builder
- Franchise
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Two Point
- Released
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March 4, 2025
- Developer(s)
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Two Point Studios
Perhaps it was inevitable that the newest, most technologically advanced entry in the series would take the crown – but regardless, Two Point Museum easily tops the ranking, whether you wish to call recency bias or not. It deftly weaves together the best bits of Campus and Hospital, excising what didn’t work while doubling down on what did, and transposes the management action to the more cerebral, cultured environment of a museum.
Ben Stiller ain’t got nothing on you as you curate, discover, and fund research into an assortment of nutty exhibits. There’s the usual stuff like dinosaur bones and sarcophagi (for that is the plural of ‘sarcophagus’, don’tcha know?), but in the later game, you can even start erecting robots and newly-thawed cavemen.
Balancing guest satisfaction (and education) with the salaries of the experts you need to authenticate your artifacts is an engrossing loop; as is seeing your ‘Buzz’ meter go up, prompting the hordes of visitors to plop dollars in your donation box. For the best fun this side of Two Point County, Museum is an archaeological find for the ages.
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