It was back in the early months of 2023 when we first heard about Galacticare, as players geared up for the chance to save the galaxy, one patient at a time. But whilst things slipped slightly from the original 2023 launch, it didn’t mean we lost interest; in fact, it increased as the weeks and months went on.
Today, we finally get the opportunity to don our doctor’s garb and head off on a bizarro journey through galactic healthcare.
A galactic take on hospital management
Galacticare from Brightrock Games and CULT Games has more than a hint of Two Point Hospital about it, that in itself emerging from Theme Hospital. If you liked either of those games previously, then we would hazard a guess that becoming the director of Galacticare wil appeal.
Priced at £24.99 or in Game Pass from the Xbox Store, Galacticare lands on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and PC (a choice of Steam, GOG or Epic) as the latest in the sci-fi hospital management genre. This time around it is up to you to put your stamp on things just enough to ensure that various hospitals, and their patients, are catered for, with rooms, staff, treatments and more on tap.
Micro-managing to the nth degree, to ensure you have the universe’s most successful hospitals, you’ll need to work with the quirkiest of doctors, utilise various skill trees, prioritise where need by and more. With backstories to help push things along, Galacticare could well take the genre to space and beyond.
Key features
- Build Hospitals Unlike Any Other – Build the best place of healing you can amidst the stars by constructing treatment rooms, placing equipment, hiring staff, and customising your hospital to your heart’s content.
- Eradicate Disease… In Style – Upgrade and improve treatment technologies such as Cerebral Rehab, Projectile Medicine, and the Dreamarium – and keep up with the ever-increasing demands of interstellar health care!
- Get Good – Use every tool and tactic at your disposal to improve your Hospital Rating – the only metric that truly matters.
- Control Everything – Optimise patient health, take charge of hiring and firing, and intricately design your hospital in a way that satisfies your particular needs. Invest your profits wisely between research, expansion, and preparation for any unforeseen disasters.
- Face Disaster – Try desperately to keep people alive in scenarios like “an entire planet is on fire”, “evil technology is turning the universe into Pong”, and “I can’t tell if that’s a God or not.” Do everything you can to help Galacticare flourish in a deranged universe!
- Cultural Outreach – From the Ohde, former conquerors who’ve retired so they can bugger about, to the industrious and heavily-modified Tenki, you’ll meet and treat seven distinct species, all with their own unique attributes.
- Immerse Yourself in a Rich Narrative – Galacticare’s narrative accompanies your gameplay; characters react to your performance, outcomes, and choices, and the Codex features evolving stories as your researchers attempt to understand the game’s many conditions
Buy now!
Galacticare is on the Xbox Store, playable on Xbox Series X|S or PC, through Game Pass if you like. Alternatively you’ll find a PS5 version on the PlayStation Store, with further PC variants on Steam, GOG or Epic.
Our full review of Galacticare on Xbox is coming soon. We’re hyped for this one…
Edit: Our full review of Galacticare is live.
Galacticare Description
You are the Director of Galacticare; manage your own interstellar healthcare company, and (try to) save the Galaxy! Galacticare takes you on a colourful and bizarre journey – from humble beginnings orbiting 23rd-century Earth, to the internal world of an extra-dimensional deity. It’s time to save the galaxy – one patient at a time!
