Space hospital game Galacticare gets demo next week
A demo for space hospital game Galacticare will be released next week as part of Steam Next Fest.
From indie developer Brightrock Games, Galacticare is a management game that tasks players with running a hospital in space teeming with alien life — and alien afflictions.
As announced a couple of months back, the game is set for release this year on PC (Steam and GOG), PlayStation 5 and Xbox consoles, plus it's coming to Xbox Game Pass.
I've had access to the demo early and it's an amusing and intuitive experience with a heavily sarcastic tone.
The demo consists of a couple of levels that let players try the basics of management. It's as you'd expect: create treatment rooms and hire doctors to cure incoming patients of disease; decorate the hospital with parody posters and bizarre flora; ensure staff and patient satisfaction while sticking to budgets.
All of this is achieved through simple menus and clean readability, making it easy to jump in and start building. Missions offered by hospital AI H.E.A.L provide focus.
Like Two Point games, Galacticare delivers its gameplay with a healthy dose of satire, but that's enhanced by the space setting that allows the developers to flex their creativity. Afflictions include Space Invasion, where patients become cosmic figures and must have their skin rebuilt in a Skinlab, and Regolithic, where they disintegrate into planetary deposits and must enter the Boning Chamber — a great metal monster that violently tr(eat)s its victims.
Later afflictions include Spacefright, the fear of spaceflight: a psychological condition that's treated in a Dreamarium hooked up to some strange cosmic being. Patients and doctors have silly names, too, and professions like Internet Troll or Floor Licker.
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