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Sunday, February 5, 2023 8:11:02 AM

Project Hospital Review (bitbucket001)

I'm enjoying this game, though it can be frustrating. The graphics are excellent. The game-play is pretty much real-world, with patients presenting with symptoms of actual diseases and conditions, not silly made-up ones. Patients can even present with COVID-19. Project Hospital is a highly complex game with wonderful detail.
BUT -- as a former registered nurse, I cringe at some of the things I see in the game. People with fractures of foot, ankle, or leg walking around? Where are the wheelchairs? A patient waiting for surgery in the morning gets up and eats a snack right before going into surgery. That is a big no-no. The patient I saw doing that was having surgery for her fractured mandible (jawbone). How could she even eat at all? Another patient came in with a fractured finger, and comes out with an arm cast on! An arm cast won't do a fractured finger much good, really. The finger should just be splinted. It is certainly silly to see the patients who have been hospitalized overnight, some of them waiting for surgery in the morning, get up and walk out of the hospital as soon as it opens in the morning without having their surgery! That's just bizarre. But it is just a game, and we must go with the flow.
One of the biggest challenges is to build a hospital, and that is not easy to do! And it can also be frustrating. I put in one section of a department that was required. I used the "pre-fab" for that section, a four-bed ward. The game kept telling me I didn't have that ward, when I doggone well did, and it was one that came with all the equipment needed. But it kept telling me I didn't have it. So I demolished the one I had put in, and put in the SAME pre-fab in the same location, and the game acknowledged that I did have that ward in place. There is very little instruction in most walkthroughs on the mechanics of the game. The only one I found that does have such information is at Gamepressure.com: https://guides.gamepressure.com/project-hospital/. Even this guide does not cover all the mechanics.
Some of the terminology takes some getting used to for American players. One unit is called the High Dependency Unit. In American usage, that would be the Critical Care Unit. "Orthopaedy" is their word for what we call Orthopedics. And so on. It doesn't take much time to figure out what the terms mean. The learning curve for the game is steep. I've had to trash a number of games, but I learn each time I do that, and can get further in the game each time I start over. I must confess that I'm 75, but I've also been playing computer games since the late 1970s. Give Project Hospital a try.