Hospitalize Reviews

This game has a lot of potential and if the developer keeps going it is going to be awsome. As someone who works in an EMS setting for a small hospital it is fun to see some of the stuff I see in the day to day real life being shown here with some liberties in making it a game that is fun. This is a fun little tycoon game that let's you go as big or small and at your pace. Being in early aces it still fun with the occasional bug. But I would get this game if you like tycoon games.

So much potential wasted. It plays quite well and is fun for a few hours. But its a dead game. No updates for a long time. It's a shame. Do not buy a dead game! Especially not for this price!

Well, back in those days, I loved to play Theme Hospital. So I find this game very intriguing. You start with almost nothing, ca 48,000 Euros (or the currency you prefer; set in a exchange rate to dollars) a handful caretakers, two cleaner ladies and vast land full of bushes and trees. Step by step you build your own hospital, buying new stuff and expand your team. And it's very funny and unlike the original Theme Hospital there are realistic diseases. Appointing your crew to overseas missions, you can get extra cash and EXP. Unfortunately, there are many bugs as this game is currently just in a very early alpha stadium. It gets a little frustrating to olad previous savegames because of freezing bugs: When there is some kind of error, patients and your stuff get stuck doing nothing. I would recommend this game in its current state only to simulation fans who can live with some freezing. It happens so often that you can't get a flow and just enjoy this game for hours and hours. I find this very disturbing. But the developers are quite active and busy, making this game more stable and adding new interesting content, so allthough I wouldn't recommend this game yet, I am sure, with the next patches and fixes it will get much much better. ;) === UPDATE === Well, more than two years since my review have passed and it seems as though the developers completely abandoned the game. I had really high hopes but was thanked with a big disappointment. One who really loves hospital sims should definetely try Project Hospital or Two Point Hospital instead.

If you've played other build-it simulators Hospitalize is on it's way to something good. That said, it's only got about 5-10 hours of gameplay on fast speed before you're running an unstoppable juggernaut with little challenge. (As of June 7). If you like this type of game, there is a lot of potential. If this is your first, you may want until they add more to the gameplay depth.

Game has been abandoned. No update in over 2 years. Get Project Hospital if you want a game like this instead.

ABANDONED BROKEN GAME A great idea but essentially dead. Last update September 2018. Really wanted to like this one, but lack of updates or bug fixes and very infrequent comments from developer except to claim game isn't dead mean I can't recommend it at any price. As of July 2020, there are still no updates and game breaking bugs prevent the game from being enjoyable - you'll quickly reach a point where you can progress no further. Devs no longer even bother to claim that the game is in active development. I think we can assume from previous dev comments that "hiatus" is a euphemism for "abandoned". If only they had the honesty and integrity to pull this broken mess from Steam instead of pretending it's a functional work-in-progress worth even 1/10th of the price they charge.

This is the third time i buy an early access game, and so far the devs all seem to abandon the game once their pockets are filled. Do not get this game, its buggy as hell and the devs arent updating it at all

I just checked to see what the company Illeris had to say about the progress on this game, and from what I could find it looks like they have moved over to do web design instead without ever letting the community know the game is abandoned, and probably also tricking more people into buying their unfinished buggy game. They have also written on their webpage that the game is fully released and they have sold several thousand copies. If they feel like they were done with the game, either put it as released or remove it from steam as this is just a lousy way of treating your hopeful consumers.

Many people know the game Theme Hospital. This is the (more) serious version of it. Although not all treatments would be advisable in real live, but it is close enough. In this game you are in charge of a hospital as managing physician. One of the nice things in this game is that you can choose your own level of micro management. You can choose just to focus on the general needs and leave the little details to your staff. So you can focus on growth and building. On the other hand you can micro-manage almost every decision your staff has to make. If you want more or less examination for a particular patient, just adjust their dossier. You can assign patient to particular staff. You can decide if treatments and examination must happen quickly or more precise and safe (but takes more time). Even if you are building a large hospital you can take some time to follow the treatments and examination. Although it would be impossible to follow all patients in a large or medium sized hospital. But in principle you decide your level of micro management and can pay more or less attention to it , whenever you feel to it. At the moment the state of the game is reasonable. Please keep in mind this is still a game in development. At the moment you will notice that the game will become a bit boring after you spend aprox. 25 hours to it. But the developer has big plans with it. So I expect that to change in future. I have the impresion that the last months the developer focused mainly on bug -fixing.The number of bugs has been reduced significantly the last months. The pathfinder has improved a lot. Now most bugs are out of the game the developer can focus more on new content (as happened with the last big update). For now it is already a very nice game to kill some time with it. It is a great basis for the future game. For the current price it is a great game with great potential in future. If you want to play it, please keep in mind that future patches can kill your current builds.

I've given Hospitalize some time before reviewing it, the game is still early access, the developers have made some progress, but still the game is half-baked idea for a game, have glitchy interface and it is hard to reach the data you need, not to mention the game needs loads and loads of testing... pros: - nice idea, sort of improved Theme Hospital - creators did make some progress in last year - options to set multi-purpose rooms (f.e. examination room and x-ray) cons: - game has no goal (after you reach some point in gameplay you have more money than you need and nothing to do) - in some parts incomprehensible way of displaying data (f.e. all lists are scrolled, but list of patients is for some reason split into pages and you don't know on which page you are, you see exam rooms are not used or staff sits around do nothing, but you can't find out why nothing is happening) - disastrous milestones concept (with each milestone you get more equipment and diagnosis, but it spoils the basic game concept since you know what illness it is, but you can't check the diagnose in the patient chart because this illness is not yet on your list) - staff wander around and often can't find the quickest way to reach some point (f.e. instead of crossing two doors the staff leaves the building and makes the trip 10 times longer) - patients are waiting in the corridors, examination rooms are empty, staff sits in the staff room and you have no tools to do anything about it (to check what the problems is, why they are waiting or to force the staff to do their job) - some of the elements are only dummies that have no meaning at all (f.e. electronic door, toilets, decorations) - some real-life basics are absent, f.e. sanitation (you can put flowers in the operating theatre, you can't separate sick from the cured, no pre or post-operation rooms), coordination (cleaners enter examination rooms or operating theaters while they are in use), tools and reports (you get info that patients are waiting too long, but can't do nothing about it since there is no clear data to spot the flaw in whole hospital operations), - some strange limits to the rooms (f.e. I have large staff, so I built large staff room, 70 squares, but for the game the max size for staff room is 64) I could expand that list, but I think you get the picture. The concept is good, but after a year of testing the game it is still in very early stage and it seems the creators did not thought through the basics of the game while developing the interface and gameplay. It might be good in the future, but I'm affraid not near future.