Galacticare

My new favourite hospital tycoon game. Or just favourite tycoon game period. Management layer is perfect grounding: everything works smoothly, you always know what's going on, what can you do and how. I was never disoriented, lost or betrayed by game acting differently from what I wanted. Even amidst hectic crises, only thing in the way of success was my very-much-possible mismanagement. From building to restructuring, from patients to doctors, everything you want to manage, can be done effortlessly (well you still need to think, mind) and game flows in steadily crisp tempo. There's a lot of "cool" conditions to treat, specialized rooms to build, races with different traits to recruit from and so on. All this good stuff delivered with lovingly crafted, rich lore (each disease got its own substory to unlock through research, e. g.). Galacticare also has surprisingly good and gripping story with likeable characters. Elevated to pure joy by, I can't stress this enough, [b]excellent[/b] writing and voice acting. Galacticare is comedy first and foremost, but doesn't fall the wacky hole. It revels in intelligent understated humour and layered sarcasm in the best british-like way. Which is godly mana for me. Again, it's an admirable work of writers pouring big talent into this. And again, it's exquisitly delivered by actors. There's nothing cheap, no cut corners here. On the contrary, it surprises only in positive ways. It feels almost unreal to find so polished game nowadays and it coheres with the amount of fun I had the whole time. P. S. If you want to discover other less knows gems, you're welcome to visit my curator page: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45655021-Nods-for-Underdogs/]Nods for Underdogs[/url].

I couldn't even play the game as I got hit with a corrupted save file first thing, before even starting the tutorial. In searching the issue online, it seems like this game crashes a lot and I have no interest in playing a game that crashes more often than it runs.

I'm only four missions in but really enjoying it so far. Solid management game in the style of classics like Theme Hospital and Startopia. Excellent humour - good script, characterisation and performances made me genuinely laugh out loud on more than one occasion (something the Two Point series never quite managed). The relationship between HEAL and Medi is especially fun, and strongly reminiscent of British comedy classics like Blackadder and Yes Minister - comparisons I don't make lightly. Shocked that game isn't better known, it really deserves more recognition.

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