Two of the original creators behind beloved hospital management sim Theme Hospital, Gary Carr and Mark Webley, are working on a modern spiritual successor to that game. Named Two Point Hospital (after their new company, Two Point Studios), the hospital sim aims to bring back the “humor, charm and replayability” of its inspiration.
Sega is publishing Two Point Hospital, which is bound for Windows PC via Steam later this year.
“Gary and I have been talking about this project for a number of years and are really excited to be announcing Two Point Studios’ first game,” said Mark Webley, co-founder of the studio, in a release. Co-founder Gary Carr added: “The amazing team we have managed to bring together, and our partnership with Sega, has really allowed this first part of our vision to finally come to fruition.”
Carr and Webley worked together at British studio Bullfrog on titles like Theme Park and Theme Hospital. The pair later worked at Lionhead Studios, which Webley helped co-found, on Black and White and Fable.
The original Theme Hospital was released in 1997 for PC. A PlayStation version was released the following year. The light-hearted sim tasked players with building and maintaining a hospital; hiring and managing medical and administrative staff; and treating patients who check into the hospital with fictional, comical diseases.
You can watch an informercial-style trailer for Two Point Hospital above, which focuses on the treatment of a man afflicted with “light-headedness” (aka having one’s head turn into a light bulb). A batch of screenshots of Two Point Hospital can be see in the gallery below.