Galacticare

Actual in-game quote: "Theme Hospital was better."

it fun game

It's fun to run your own Intergalactic Hospital. I love the humor in the game which adds that, "I can't wait to see what is next" vibe. The different characters, side quests, an overall feeling pure joy. LOL.

It took me almost 40 hours to 5-star every Hospital in the basegame.

These forty hours have been tremendously fun. The TL;DR is a MORE FUN and thematic version of Two-Point Hospital. There's an actual story here that introduces new illnesses and their treatments. New characters and their little interactions. All tying it up in a neat bow at the end. All in all a way better experience than any other Hospital games that I have played. (And I played a lot of them.)

"a mile wide and an inch deep" Would work if this title was even that wide. Learn some tricks of the mechanics and each level is a time waste. Seriously my playtime is 25% of my total, but I have to leave the client running for it to achieve goals. Jokes are fine, nothing to memorable. Voice acting is nice, until it repeats for about the 100th time. Buggy as well. Patients stuck in place, reload save errors, and items not working as the devs description explains (you have to find work-arounds on your own.)

All in all, a departure from the poilish their last foray into gaming was. And a sure state of decline for this dev team.

Its fun. Like 2point hospital but with Aliens. Replay-ability is good as well.

Absolutely fantastic blend of theme and aesthetic and mechanics. HEAL's hate for Medi bots will forever live in my hearts.

Absolutely love this. I've play two point hospital but Galaticare is way more fun. I like the information of the different species that you are trying to help with their ailments. I would definitely recommend to others to give this game a try!

A hilarious sim in the vein of Theme Hospital, and Two Point Hospital.
"I'm not normally racist, it's the stress." - Leonard Moon

Incredibly good. I think the word just isn't out enough on the game but if you like the big name in the genre - two point - then you'll like this a good bit.

Great Theme Hospital type game

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An enjoyable take on hospital sims which incorporates British humour. Every time I sat down and played a mission I really enjoyed it. You can tell a lot of passion was put into this game by developers and voice actors, nothing felt out of place and it was a good game to pick up every day or so and play through.

Patients here come from a range of species with each one requiring specific decorations in order to keep them happy. This can be windows, plants, benches or wide corridors. Whilst this is not really essential to completing most missions, if the player wants 5 stars then this will need to be considered.

Conditions vary based on a danger scale. It is not overly hard to keep patients alive and death penalties of regular patients are not that harsh.

26 hours is just long enough to finish the base game with about half of the hospitals at 5 stars.

There is a storyline to Galacticare and each map involves a different challenge. This helps to keep the humour fresh as I find sometimes with Two Point I am muting the music and announcements as they repeat over and over.

I preferred curing people in Galacticare as opposed to Two Point as the diseases had some funny treatments. I watched each new room to see it function. I really enjoyed treating patients who had overslept by blowing crust off their bodies, hitting those who had permafrost with a flamethrower in Projectile Medicine and shrinking a spaceship to nanoscale and flying it into a patient. I preferred this humour to Two Point. Even the index of conditions was funny as more levels in researched revealed more details.

I liked how it was easy to add new rooms and doctors in case of a backlog and the game automatically assigned patients between them without further input from me. Teleportation pads to get people around the hospital quickly was a great amendment and I now miss this in other hospital sims.

There are some negatives. This game from what I have read launched in a similar condition to No Man's Sky. A lot of work has been put into this game and it is a labour of love, however I had the occasional patient bug out and get stuck (fixed by a restart), graphical glitches of doors remaining open and a consultant not teleporting to where she should. Some of these have been fixed in the latest patch however some still remain.

Overall I really enjoyed this game and after the first 15 hours I have purchased all DLC and War for the Overworld which were both made by this developer. I do not see myself returning to Two Point after playing this.

Silly, fun, tedious, snarky and sick sims game.. What more can I say?

It's exactly what it looks like: Theme Hospital In Space. Patients come into your orbital hospital, you erect specialised rooms to treat the various absurd maladies they've acquired, it's a familiar cycle.
What sets it apart from its obvious modern competitor in Two Point Hospital, aside from its spaceborne setting, is its higher focus on storytelling, with a delightfully funny rapport between a good number of characters of all races as you bounce from planet to planet. The voice acting is well-done, and there is plenty to hear in each mission.

As for those missions, their settings can be remarkably varied, from patching up revellers at an over-enthusiastic music festival to healing an entire living planet that's been hit by a tanker spill. One memorable location is a hyperspace train station, forcing you to divide your operations between two opposite platforms to maximise available space on the cramped station. Certainly more variety to be found here than in Two Point.

All in all, it's good fun. Maybe not particularly difficult, at least for me thus far, but I'd say it's enough to keep you engaged. Compared to Two Point, there is less emphasis placed on diagnosis, with only one scan being required before treatment, and rooms generally have a wider variety of diseases and injuries that they can treat, which can save a bit of space in the long run. One particular stand-out there is Projectile Medicine, which can do anything from heating up frozen patients to cooling down flaming patients or even just blasting foreign bodies off them with a shotgun, all with a nicely-animated rotary system for the different equipment. Room decoration has been expanded, with several distinct categories of items that must be placed to appeal to each race's particular tastes, rather than Two Point's unilateral room appeal system. 'Ordinary' bits and bobs, 'Curious' objects of the slightly gross variety, plants from across the galaxy, and art pieces are all required to keep everyone comfortable with their environment. However, mind that you do not clutter things up, as one race is rather large and requires open spaces to roam in.
A challenge mode has been patched in to bump up the difficulty in every level, if you so wish.

Had this game since lauch its has been fun

Exactly what I want from a game in the overcrowded intergalactic hospital management sim genre

Pretty neat game. Lovely Animations and Characters.

It's Theme Hospital in space. Great gameplay and fun dialogues (kudos to voice actors!). Would buy again.

I love this game. My favourite of the illnesses in game is Space invasion because it's so pretty. I'm only partly in chapter 3 and I love it because of the Tenki. Their voices and them overall are cute. Also like how the Dyonai are all Austrailian or new Zealanders, the accents sound similar to me

I'm a fan of what this company has done, and one of the old Bullfrog fans who is still bitter. Unfortunately, I just can't recommend this game.

This game has good artwork, and writing. The humor is great, and they nailed the creative aspects of this game, imo. I especially like playing a game that is actually positive, as it involved actually helping people rather than killing. That's a good change.

I completed the story and the game got bored after only 27 hours of play time, and I'm not even sure it was worth that. It did get boring quite a while before I finished, too, and I may try the harder difficulties, but I'm not really that motivated to do that. Management games should have lots of replay-ability. I think I have way over 5k hours in RimWorld, and at least hundreds into Terraria. This game just falls short.

It also had a weird mobile vibe to it, with popping little bugs that appear randomly, and buying skins using a separate time of currency that you earn in-game. It had the feel that the devs were trained to make a mobile game, or were going in that direction, and I don't think it added anything to the game.

Enjoy Two Point Hospital or any of the Two Point style tongue in cheek games? Play this.

Fun game. Love it

What a fun little game to play!
Has pretty much the same feel and vibes to Two Point Hospital but in its own little way. Easy to get to grips with, the campaign guides you along the way to manage your own hospital in its sandbox mode.
Jam packed with funny moments and puns, for me it's a must have for management game enthusiasts.

It could not be more apparent that Galacticare is a love letter to Mucky Foot's Startopia from 2001, and for it to be successfully so is a delight and a triumph.

In a modern world of muddy, focus-less mediocrity even at the AA level of game development, Galcticare manages to be a really very well-acquitted management sim, told through some excellent writing that is intelligent, earnest, economical, and deeply funny.

The writing is elevated by what to me is the best voice acting I have heard in a video game ever, and that by a mile. Maybe some games from other studios give more conventionally emotional or cinematic performances because they're making that sort of game, but it's clear that everyone in a sound booth understood what this game wanted and acted their hearts out, fully fleshing out characters and moments without becoming unbelievable or overwrought.

Secondary mechanics like the meta-progression of facility decorations, the illness encyclopedia, consultants, and cultural influence are all really nice touches that help tie the playthrough together. I am particularly impressed with the little narratives woven throughout the entries, interactions between Medi and Twiggy told through a conversation between HEAL and Medi, for example; delightful little stories that help build the connective tissue holding the whole experience together in a way that reminds me of a time when a game made it clear that it just wants to tell stories and share art.

I'm grateful for experiences like this when they come along, and I hope there will be more like it in the future.

Lovely and fun hospital simulator.

Excellent comedy hospital sim. You don't really beat games like this, made it all the way to chapter 5 before burn out but that's ok. Had a blast with my time with it.

If I had one complaint is the heavy requirement to have everything decorated to the hilt every level or suffer severe mood penalties. For those who like that kinda thing, this is the game for you. But just for me personally, it doesn't matter what sim game, the "get your art level up to whatever" requirement is nails on a chalkboard. I'm running a hospital da** it, call a interior decorater and leave me alone.

Most excellent - if you have a soul and/or you miss Bullfrog games like Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper - this is a must! The humour is excellent - possible cameo from the most delightful Matt Berry ( or a good impersonator ... although the soundtrack sounds like his music too.. ) I love it - I want to "one more turn" every mission and it lets you.

On normal cosy mode it seems you only get hit by 1 asteroid field then never again ... despite it announcing asteroid attacks but them not coming - otherwise PERFECTION <3 I hope this studio makes games forevermore <3

I can't remember the last time I literally was laughing out loud playing a game tutorial. The voice acting is top notch, the graphics are cute, silly, gross... this feels like a COMPLETED/FINISHED game and it's very very very refreshing. I highly recommend if you are a fan of Two Point Hospital or Theme Hospital or Two Points Campus or Spacebase Startopia. There's some special sauce in this and that is very difficult to find these days. Highly Recommended.

This game is charming. Old school hospital management fun, in space. Good campaign, good writing, good mechanics, good voice talent. Absolutely recommend.

Great game, not too difficult, not too simple. Lovely graphics and voice overs. It is a game to relax with - if you are looking for a more advanced experience, there's also a challenge mode! But probably isn't for hardcore tycoon players because of limited crowd and staff management.

I love this game-- I wish there was more but isnt that how it always work? The Characters and the humor are on point and usually have me giggling like a crazy lady to myself.

Once again I am wishing for a "Mediocre" rating choice, but as we all know there is none. The graphics; animations; voice acting and jokes are top notch. So many times found myself laughing out loud. The game mechanics themselves are pretty void of most any strategy.

There is no worry or mechanics for air; power; food; materials; or staff. Want a doctor? Pick it and it teleport to a room; don't see a doctor you like? Then reject the entire list, and re-spawn a new list over, and over, and over again until you get a doctor you like (without any penalty).
But it does not really matter, because if you close your eyes and pick doctors willy-nilly, you'll still be roiling in dough.

A kids game in the end.

This is best of breed, do recommend.

I really wanted to love this game, it started good, sadly, the number of bugs and clearly untested systems makes it impossible to enjoy past certain point.

When scumbags at EA bought Bullfrog an entire sub-genre of management sims died out, and it has taken over 20 years for succesors to decide to continue that style... sadly, the original Bullfrog team also returned, so anyone trying to emulate or supass them it´s gonna have a hard time after Two Point Hospital was launch. Galacticare gets close, it does some things really good, like a more strong and interesting story, better humor and a good use of the galactic theme and settings. But everything else...

Galacticare it´s extremelly easy if you only care for completing maps, a lot of them you could finish them on a 2 hour session without even trying. But achieving 5 star rating on some hospitals become impossible as the math simply won´t favor you, you won´t have enough patients on the hospital to achieve the performance numbers asked, or the economical output you are requiere to get, in some maps I had to cheat the system like putting 5 teleporters that bring more patients completely breaking the map but for one second because you have so many and if you threatment fast you will achieve those numbers, or firing every single doctor just as you are about to finish one cycle so you don´t pay salaries and you can earn the money asked... and the maps where the math is correct, still, you are just gonna leave the game play itself for a few hours while your doctors level up and the numbers go up.

And all this, you NEED to do it on your first go, why? Because the game doesn´t seem to have coding preventing from future ilness to appear on older maps. So say you play map 1, complete it on 4 stars, then play until map 4 and decide to comeback to map 1 for that 5th star... you can´t. The game will star launching you every new ilness you discovered on maps 2, 3 and 4, and ask you to build the rooms requiere for those threatments while not deleting the older threatment rooms, which can´t be done because all maps have the exact limited space for the requiered rooms for the quests of each map.

But this isn´t even the biggest problem, the biggest problem is PC performance. The game lags and freezes all the time, GPU usage goes over the roof. At least once per day the game just freezes on me and I have to alt-tab out and force closing the app.

If you are the type of players that buys games, plays 2 maps and then leaves a 2 sentence positive review, this game may be perfect for you. But if you have passion for this genre, were intrigued by the theme and presentation, either wait for updates or just go for another title, this one needs ironing and I´m unsure those issues are gonna be adress, seeing as devs are already focusing on the challenge mode (basically replay the older levels on a higher difficulty, since how easy the game is was a big complain when it launched, but if you check the achievement ratios you can see how little anyone actually cared for that) or talking about adding new content, when it´s clear first fixxing the content already here should be priority one. On map 6 you will only deal with one alien race but still you are requiere to work the preferences of all other species. On map 8 the voice acting just repeats, an audio will star and a few seconds later it will star again, for every single conversation on that map... the more you play, the more bugs appear map by map.

A real shame overall because like I said, the story is really good, the writting of the game in general and specially for this genre really stands out for it´s quality. And the theme it´s so well taking advance of. But again, untested systems, bad mathematical calculation for the 5th star on some maps, and a collection of performance issues and bugs turn an initially interesting and promising experience, into dreadfull grind for completionist or, judging by achievements ratios, just forgoet about the game and move on onto greener pastures.

It has funny writing, HEAL is spot on. It's a good game, unfortunate that the bugs not getting fixed.

Addicting hospital sim.

Im a big fan of two point hospital, and this game hits the same beats for me. Its easier to manage, and I like the characters they present. The layouts given are basic, but it's offset by the incredibly creative maps surrounding it, my personal favourite being the train station. I've seen reviews mention that teleporters/extra entrances make the game easier, but for me it's worked wonders in terms of getting more creative and fun with layouts, rather than having to copy-paste the exact same layout designs like in two point.

Here are a few things I noticeably found annoying:
- Your lenses arent very precise. Whether an area is sufficiently decorated or lightly decorated is very hard to determine. The default when decorating is overall decorations, rather than specific categories, which is a little annoying to switch to every time you need something more specific for a species (which is most of the time)
- A negative point to your rating cant point to the cause. If you don't have a psychotic doctor and one of your patients had a psychotic interaction anyway for example, you cant click on it and point who/what caused it.
- Patients sometimes get stuck complaining about congested spaces, even if there aren't any in their vicinity. This is only something I ran into one or two times though.

All in all, I love this game! I hope it keeps getting worked on!

The mechanics aren't as technically complex as Two Point Hospital but the writing's good for a chuckle, the mission gimmicks are fair and not frustrating and it's only £25. Plus the devs clearly have the same autism as me so I want them to keep making spiritual successors.

Game is OK. Nice looks, easy controls, edgy toilet humor. Very low difficulty. In fact, it's basically arcade game, less of a management sim - the items you can craft (teleports and healing pots primo) trivialize this game a lot. Some bugs are a bit nasty, but not nuclear. 6/10

Its beautiful, but, it feels unpolished. Too much micromanagement. Too many options with no impact at all.

Not for me. 4/10.

Very good game honestly, reminiscent of two point games and such. A lot of fun.

There's a lot of charm in this game, unfortunately, it's held back by a tide of bugs. Patients get stuck and can't be moved, leaving you with a permanently angry patient. Sometimes when you delete a window, the wall glitches out and can't decide if it wants to be visible or a blank square. Pathing is often frustrating, with a queue forming outside of a room instead of dispersing equally to open rooms of the same type. Sometimes dialogue skips ahead before the NPC can finish speaking.

Those are just a few of the bugs I ran into. I really wanted to love this game but ended up being frustrated with it.

Fun game that flew largely under the radar (I had no idea it was even out until I saw it for sale). Gameplay is like Two Point Hospital, but solely in space as you build medical stations in orbit. Lots of different species, good animations for everything - pretty solid all around.

It is amazing!
This is an alien hospital management game, and the developers have not skimp. The mechanic is very much like the Two Point hospital, but much more gameplay elements added, such as teleports, room upgrades, etc. Game is slightly more dynamic, fast, you are on your toes a lot if you don't press pause. Be sure: if you are looking for a Two Point hospital experience: this game is even better!

Pros:
- Great design of rooms, characters, effects, music;
- Big and interesting race lore to read if you want to;
- The difficulty level nicely progresses through story mode;
- Every level is unique in a story mode;
- The writing and humor is one of the best in these kind of games;
- Gameplay is great!

Cons:
- No idea, 8+ hours and I am still obessesd.

if you feel like playing a theme hospital, this is a game for you !

I was in charge of different hospital and took care of cute alien while an AI where trash talking little robots.. it was fun

the fun dialogues are good, the aesthetic is amazing

mix of "2nd best hospital of the galaxy" (cartoon) & "Scrubs" (tv-show)

The gameplay is good but it's the writing which truly stands out. If Douglas Adams had created Theme Hospital, this is what would have come out.

If you aren't a fan of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and you don't want a relatively chill sim game this won't be for you, otherwise, buy it now and you won't be disappointed.

I want to thumbs up really cool game, but seems buggy
Why do they release games that are bugged, I just don't get it
Patients are getting stuck on vending machines needing food, but not getting it, stand there and eventually die...

Other than that it seems to be playable, honestly its a nice game but in its current state, can not recommend.

Good fun, and with the dry humour and wit for which we know Brightrock can be relied upon!