You can see from the game that the developers were thinking creatively, not in patterns. The economics of the game make you sweat. The humour is excellent.

Loved this as a kid but always got stuck on the levels so never really completed it although I want to play it again and complete every level. Such a classic game for kids and adults and always makes you laugh.

Theme Hospital is one of many business simulation classics developed by the legendary Bullfrog. You get to manage a hospital and cure patients with variety of funny diseases (from bloaty head to Elvis syndrome). You will have to deal with the expectations of your staff, the happiness of your patients, earthquakes, epidemics… If you only play the first several missions, Theme Hospital could easily be your favorite tycoon / business sim game ever. It is charming, hilarious and fun. The last few missions though, get extremely repetitive and are a chore to play. Design your hospital in a way the game does not want you to, and you will spend hours cleaning vomit and repairing machinery which involves hundreds of tedious mouse clicks. Add to that the numerous bugs (doctors disappearing, doctors freezing and making rooms inoperable as well as unremovable, patients forming lines in one room and for no reason ignoring the adjacent room), there is a good chance you will just give up. I know I have. I have fond memories of Theme Hospital from my childhood, but as a child I kept replaying the early missions. Visiting it 23 years later, it is still great fun, at first... But in later levels, Theme Hospital overstays its welcome. PS: If you are curious, maybe you should consider trying the CorsixTH community remaster instead, which supposedly fixes the problems.