Two Point Hospital: Close Encounters

I've spent enough time optimizing hospital layouts to recognize when a DLC pack doesn't pull its weight. Close Encounters drops you into Goldpan, a themed facility obsessed with alien patients and sci-fi decor, but the core problem is immediately obvious: the campaign structure feels like filler rather than evolution. The base game's level design already nails the progression curve, each hospital teaches you something new about staff management, disease chains, and spatial efficiency. This expansion repeats those lessons without adding meaningful mechanical depth. You'll build the same staff hierarchies, manage identical disease types (just renamed for theme), and solve spacing puzzles you've already solved. Where it stumbles hardest is pacing. The UFO gimmick looks charming for two or three levels, then becomes window-dressing. If you've exhausted the base game's 15+ campaigns and crave more Two Point Hospital, this scratches that itch for maybe 5-8 hours. But newcomers should start with the base game and skip this entirely, it doesn't teach you anything the original won't, and its 45% Steam rating reflects a community that feels the same way.

Diego · Scout Team

Strategy & simulation

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