Is Two Point Museum Better Than Two Point Campus?

The third installment in the wonderfully fun Two Point series takes us deep into creating our own collection of relics, fossils, and even fish to display and craft our very own Two Point Museum. This setting has refined and pushed the formula to become one of the most enjoyable titles from Two Point Studios yet.

The previous title in Two Point County, Two Point Campus, had some slight flaws, but building our own university around the courses we always wished we could take was still a blast. If you are new to the series, it may be hard to decide which title to pick up. But looking at the core elements of each, we can find out which of the two is the better title.

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Gameplay

Winner — Two Point Museum

Both titles share similar elements but have completely different gameplay loops. Campus has you hiring staff and offering certain courses for students to learn. All the while, you must improve their campus and take their money. In Museum, you are tasked with collecting artifacts and building a museum of your choosing. With a wide range of different exhibitions, you will aim to become the world’s best museum around.

One of the best parts of Museum that makes it much more enjoyable is how you obtain your many exhibits. Instead of just needing to level up your university to unlock new courses like in Campus, you must excavate them from around the massive POI-filled map by going on expeditions. This is a super-rewarding way to build up your facility and provides a gameplay loop that will have you digging for more.

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Variety

Winner — Two Point Museum

One key part that makes these kinds of management sim games successful is how replayable they are. Two Point Campus can get quite repetitive with the main goal of raising your university’s rating and keeping students happy and successful, not changing much between each university you develop. There just aren’t enough secondary goals outside the basics, and the core concept itself doesn’t ever go much further than this.

Museum does not have these issues, with plenty of stuff to do and a more fun cycle that involves exploring to find many creative and cool exhibitions to display in your museum. There are many more random special events to keep the gameplay interesting as well, and owning and designing your own museum is simply a more engaging concept than a university.

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Content

Winner — Two Point Campus

In a game all about designing and developing your own facility, it’s very important to have plenty of content in the form of items, modes, and options to spice up each time you restart. Two Point Museum has a massive map of multiple locations where you can create a giant gallery of hundreds of potential exhibitions to craft your perfect museum. Likewise, Two Point Campus also has a ton of courses and locations but does slack on its grades when put against its successor.

Two Point Campus does, however, currently have more content if we also include the expansion packs. From turning your university into a space academy to becoming honorary Ghostbusters, these packs add a ton of variety to an already content-packed game. While Museum is also jam-packed with stuff to do, the additional years of updates make Campus a bit more bulky regarding options.

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Sandbox Mode

Winner — Tie

A big part of the Two Point series is its variety of modes to help you enjoy creating your facilities, and one of the best is the Sandbox mode. Both games have a Sandbox mode, which lets you create whatever you want with an unlimited budget. It is always a blast to play around with the many different decorations and parts to craft the most intricate or the most silly of facilities. It can also be used to create fun challenges for yourself outside the main game.

With various settings to tweak how you start or what goal you want to achieve, each title provides a wonderful Sandbox mode with only a few limitations. Two Point Museum’s has a variety of difficulty options and even boasts a challenging Hardcore mode, pushing you to make every decision count. This also comes with plenty of casual settings that Two Point Campus has but does better.

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Graphics

Winner — Two Point Museum

While Two Point Museum might look slightly better and have a better-organized UI than Campus, there is not much of an upgrade between the two, as they both share that classic Two Point art style. There is a lot more detail and visual flair to Museum, but it’s not much more than an enhanced HD texture pack upgrade from Campus with better lighting.

Gazing at our giant spectacles of exhibits, it’s hard not to say that Two Point Museum is a stunningly stylized game, especially with the reflections and lighting options. The Two Point series’ defined art style is always a treat for our eyes, but in terms of fidelity, Museum can push it further and achieve cleaner visuals.

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Audio

Winner — Tie

Both games feature a chill yet bubbly soundtrack composed by Tom Puttick, Phil French, and Kris Masters, who all did a fantastic job of crafting the perfect tunes to fit the vibes of each entry and their setting. Both have their fair share of tracks we can’t get out of our heads and share a lot of sound effects to boot.

In Two Point Campus, there is a more lo-fi gentle soundtrack that perfectly encompasses the seriousness of a prestigious university. Museum, on the other hand, has a much more silly OST, fitting the more whimsical aspects of the themes present. It still does have sophistication in the treasure troves, though, and both games are wonderful to listen to while you build and profit.

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Performance

Winner — Two Point Campus

Having a more visually detailed lighting engine and a higher limit of people at once, Two Point Museum does require higher specs on PC, noticeably requiring 6 GB of RAM instead of only 4 GB like Campus does. This does mean that on lower-end hardware, you may struggle to run Museum without lowering the graphics settings, but rest assured, as long as you adjust settings, the game will run like butter, just like Campus.

You may encounter some bugs in Museum, but just like with Campus, these will be patched out very quickly once the game receives some future updates. While currently, Campus is the more stable and easy-to-run game for a wider audience, in the long run, we can see Museum overtaking that podium just due to how well it can handle large crowds of visitors in our massive museums.

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Verdict

Two Point Museum

While both games give you a one-of-a-kind, engaging management simulator experience of various industries, Two Point Museum enhances and improves on Two Point Campus in nearly every aspect. It features a more fun and replayable gameplay loop that never gets old; creating a perfect museum with more linear gameplay is just more engaging than a university.

Two Point Studios really made something truly special, making the most of a ton of passion and experience from the previous two titles. Museum has some of the most refined and interesting gameplay in the management sim genre, and we are super-excited about the shining bright future of the Two Point series. Two Point Campus isn’t far behind, though, and you can’t go wrong by picking up either of these fantastic titles.