The sci-fi hospital management simulator Galacticare just became deadlier, thanks to the addition of a brutal new Challenge Mode for free.
This free update is now available on Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam, Epic Games and GOG. PlayStation players don’t fret – the update for PlayStation 5 is on the horizon.
Go toe to toe with death itself as your hospital buckles under the weight of new mutated conditions, overcrowded corridors and severely deteriorating patients. This is not just business as usual – the grim reaper has set up shop in your hospital.
Survival becomes tougher than ever
In Challenge Mode, Galacticare has dialled up the difficulty, making it a relentless experience for even the most seasoned players.
As Creative Director Josh Bishop of Brightrock Games explains, “Challenge Mode is our response to our player’s masochistic requests for more difficulty, suffering, and general misery. It’s been built to be unforgiving and push players to utilise their full toolset, it’s intended for those who want their Galacticare experience to have a little more bite to it.”
From mutated diseases to catastrophic patient influxes, the update raises the stakes in ways that will test every aspect of your hospital management skills. Mechanics like patient health deterioration, resource scarcity and income generation have all been rebalanced to offer a much more challenging experience. If you thought running a hospital was tough before, now you’ll need to master every tool and technique just to survive.
Key features of Galacticare’s Challenge Mode update
- It’s mutating!: Welcome deadly new strains as the conditions you’ve learned to cure now mutate to be incredibly infectious and highly fatal! Make sure to put your nerds into the Research Lab to find the cure and keep fatalities to a financially-tolerable minimum while you work on the cure.
- Ready or not, here they come: Patients are swarming into the sanitised halls of your hospital, and their numbers are only increasing! Disruptive and inconsiderate, requiring rooms you haven’t yet built, choking your hospital corridors with queues… Good luck, Director.
- Anyone got a spare body bag?: With patients arriving on their last legs (or tentacles), their health will deteriorate much faster. You’ll need your full suite of treatment tools to save them, especially now that treatment difficulty has increased, requiring happy, high-level doctors to keep patients consistently alive (and able to pay you!)
- A hard knock life: By 2049, patients are flat broke. Income from treatments is reduced, the traveling merchant is far less generous with freebies and Level 3 doctors can no longer be recruited directly. You’ll have to train them yourself.
- Actions have Consequences: Lose too many patients and have your hospital snatched by the “Space Cops”. Oops!
Test your hospital management skills in Galacticare’s free Challenge Mode
This free update is here to push you to your limit, with death rates skyrocketing and resources dwindling. Can you survive under the pressure, or will your hospital become a graveyard of failed hopes? Try the Challenge Mode today to find out.
If you don’t have the base game, it’s available to download from all the usual stores, such as the Xbox Store for £24.99. You’ll also find Galacticare on Game Pass.
Update description
Does death tickle your fancy but your “friends” keep asking you to change the topic of conversation? The free Challenge Mode DLC is here to satisfy your frankly bizarre tastes with mortality rates that only a Hardcore Hospital Gamer can subdue! If harrowing difficulty isn’t enough, Challenge Mode also brings shiny, golden trophies for the fraction of Directors who survive succeed.
