The sense of humour is gentle and goofy, and all of the in-game voiceover is great. The goofy radio stations and the same crusty DJs return from Two Point Hospital, as does the PA announcer who has now moved on to insulting students over the tannoy rather than patients. This was added post launch to Two Point Hospital, and was something I’ve wanted since the days of Theme Hospital so it’s great to see it also added here. Another nice addition is that the game comes with a sandbox mode out of the box, allowing you to craft the university of your dreams on a themed lot. Socializing itself is encouraged, with students idly chatting while eating meals or sitting on park benches, sometimes feeling like it overlaps into The Sims territory somewhat.

Besides the aforementioned lounges and dining facilities, you can also create student clubs which will grant members benefits for joining, such as the Powerwalking Club, which enables members to walk faster between classes. Designing a university with a sensible building layout is not my strong point.Īnother neat aspect of the game is keeping your students happy, alongside their academic performance. All of this is straightforward to do thanks to the intuitive room creation tool, and with the ability to copy-paste rooms and save favourites, it means you don’t have to recreate every single room from scratch. Likewise, you need to construct dormitories for them to sleep in, shower rooms for hygiene, etc. Things such as bars and eateries provide an extra way of making a little bit more cash, since students are not lucky enough to get their meals included. You both want to create a useful learning environment for students with things like libraries and tuition rooms, but also craft a fulfilling social life as well, with facilities such as student unions, coffee shops and student lounges.

The topics of study are appropriately zany, such as Scientography, which seems to be a mad scientist’s idea of learning, or even wilder things such as Wizardry, which is everything the name implies. At the beginning of the year, you need to pick which subjects you want to offer to students, set the intake and the applicable tuition fees, and of course make sure you have the correct staff and facilities to be able to teach the course. The areas surrounding the university are quite detailed, and you can now place objects outside buildings.Įvery year in Two Point Campus is aligned to the academic cycle. Given the massive proliferation of profit-making in the higher education sector in the last 30 years, a game like Two Point Campus now makes complete sense whereas back in the 1990s, for-profit universities were a relative rarity within the UK, although much more common in the US. It’s your role as a jobbing university administrator (or Vice-Chancellor) to run various universities and colleges, building lecture theatres and dormitories, hiring teachers and janitors, scheduling classes and hopefully having your students pass, all while making a healthy profit of course. The fundamentals of Two Point Hospital and Theme Hospital remain present in Two Point Campus, despite the change of venue. Two Point Campus is a nicely satisfying, funny management game, and a gentle evolution on its predecessor. Enter Two Point Campus, where you do just that. From here, a sequel about managing universities seemed like an obvious next step. Although it didn’t really alter the Theme Hospital recipe that much, it successfully iterated on it, adding plenty of new humour, charm and quality-of-life improvements to proceedings. Since Two Point Hospital (a spiritual successor to Theme Hospital from some of the original Bullfrog developers) launched in 2018, it has received a wide array of DLC, as well as broad critical acclaim.

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