70
War Hospital is a pleasant surprise. With its numerous and good gameplay ideas, its exciting setting. The game has the potential to captivate you for many hours.
80
War Hospital offers a decent management experience with nice flavor. There aren’t many games that use World War I as a setting and even less than ask fans to actually heal people rather than kill them. The game’s management aspect is well-executed, although the core gameplay loop tends to become repetitive. The development team also delivers a good recreation of the first worldwide conflict, with a focus on the frailty of humanity and the incredibly limited tools doctors and nurses had to save lives. I hope that Brave Lamb Studio takes the best ideas of War Hospital and refines them, either for DLC or a sequel.
65
There’s another way to look at War Hospital which is as some sort of RPG/visual novel. I think this change would actually benefit the themes of the story. There are already existing characters in the story. They are where the game comes closest to realizing its vision. The randomly generated patients by comparison, all feel like unimportant NPCs. War Hospital is all about taking on a role, but you express yourself through tactical decisions. If I spent less time choosing the mortal fates of random named guys, maybe I could have spent more time learning to be Major Henry Wells.
5
Es un pena que, a día de hoy, el juego siga sin esta optimizado. Las ideas y la ambientación están ahí, y hasta a mí con solo estos elementos me ha enganchado hasta el final, pero no puedo negar que cada dos por tres hay bugs que te arruinan la partida (y yo que pensaba que esto solo era en la versión de los mares del sur). Encima en el tercer y último capítulo, la dificultad ni existe cuando ya tienes el hospital mejorado al máximo y la plantilla con personal ocupando todas las tareas necesarias para que no se te muera prácticamente ni un paciente, eliminando esa sensación de estrés que tienes durante los primeros minutos de juego y que no se vuelven a repetir. Podía convertirse en mucho más si lo actualizaran un poco, aunque ya nadie lo espera porque lo que sí tiene es un DLDC de pago siendo todavía un título con un regusto final de estar incompleto.
0
Laggy, unresponsive, and quite heavy. Practically unplayable past the tutorial.
7
Pros
+ Detailed Graphics
+ Good working management functions
+ Different and new side of war + Workers have levels with diffrent character traits and skills to chose.
+ Good athmosphere Cons
- Bugs
- Only one map
- The three chapters are stretched unnesessarely and they dont differ from etch other
- Only a few cut scenes and they come all over again
- No memorable soundtrack
- You do the same thing throught the whole game. Little variety - To much micro management Conclusion
Pros:+ Detailed graphics+ Good working management functions+ Different and new side of war+ Workers have levels with different character traits and skills to choose from.+ Good atmosphereCons:- Bugs- Only one map- The three chapters are unnecessarily stretched, and they don't differ from each other.- Only a few cut scenes, and they repeat.- No memorable soundtrack- You do the same thing throughout the whole game. Little variety - Too much micro-managementConclusion:It is a nice management game. Above all, it's something unique. One has never seen the war from this side in a strategy/management game. It's fresh but lacks potential and depth. I played it through in 20 hours, but at hour 5, it was the same all over again. Nevertheless, it was still enjoyable. If you catch it on sale, it's a nice experience. Otherwise, you should choose one of the many better management games out there.
War Hospital
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Jan 11, 2024
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Mixed or Average
67
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Generally Unfavorable
4.7
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Feb 13, 2024
80
War Hospital offers a decent management experience with nice flavor. There aren’t many games that use World War I as a setting and even less than ask fans to actually heal people rather than kill them. The game’s management aspect is well-executed, although the core gameplay loop tends to become repetitive. The development team also delivers a good recreation of the first worldwide conflict, with a focus on the frailty of humanity and the incredibly limited tools doctors and nurses had to save lives. I hope that Brave Lamb Studio takes the best ideas of War Hospital and refines them, either for DLC or a sequel.
Jan 11, 2024
75
War Hospital is a bleak and brutal management game, but one with an incredible theme and plenty of depth to keep you engaged.
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Feb 12, 2024
8
Good game that challenges you with multiple types of resource management. Has a few bugs but being nothing major that really ruins the game, for the price it's more fun then other war games, with a fair amount of replayability.
Mar 4, 2024
7
Pros
+ Detailed Graphics
+ Good working management functions
+ Different and new side of war + Workers have levels with diffrent character traits and skills to chose.
+ Good athmosphere Cons
- Bugs
- Only one map
- The three chapters are stretched unnesessarely and they dont differ from etch other
- Only a few cut scenes and they come all over again
- No memorable soundtrack
- You do the same thing throught the whole game. Little variety - To much micro management Conclusion
Pros:+ Detailed graphics+ Good working management functions+ Different and new side of war+ Workers have levels with different character traits and skills to choose from.+ Good atmosphereCons:- Bugs- Only one map- The three chapters are unnecessarily stretched, and they don't differ from each other.- Only a few cut scenes, and they repeat.- No memorable soundtrack- You do the same thing throughout the whole game. Little variety - Too much micro-managementConclusion:It is a nice management game. Above all, it's something unique. One has never seen the war from this side in a strategy/management game. It's fresh but lacks potential and depth. I played it through in 20 hours, but at hour 5, it was the same all over again. Nevertheless, it was still enjoyable. If you catch it on sale, it's a nice experience. Otherwise, you should choose one of the many better management games out there.
Feb 23, 2024
70
War Hospital is a pleasant surprise. With its numerous and good gameplay ideas, its exciting setting. The game has the potential to captivate you for many hours.
Jan 11, 2024
70
I criticized War Hospital quite a bit, but I enjoyed this game. I don’t have any major complaints about the gameplay, but I was bothered by the sometimes annoying flaws, missing features, and bugs, as well as ugly cutscenes. It’s obvious that the developers ran out of time to properly polish the game but the overall concept and the most part of its execution are great. I felt similar discomfort while playing This War of Mine and Frostpunk and I think that speaks well for War Hospital.
Jan 18, 2024
65
War Hospital has a great concept and good mechanics to implement it but is plagued by poor QA, bugs and frame drops.
Jan 11, 2024
55
War Hospital has a good idea and the core system has some logic and depth to it, but the game itself is boring and lifeless. In short, it's wasted potential.
Jan 11, 2024
50
War Hospital is a primarily functional World War I management simulation game that struggles to establish a meaningful connection between players and their staff and patients. As you progress beyond the initial hours, the gameplay becomes bogged down by repetitive mechanics exacerbated by an inadequate user interface with insufficient tooltips and unclear instructions, accompanied by a host of frustrating bugs that compelled me to frequently reload older save files and restart entire chapters. Despite a promising start, the overall experience is marred by tedium and irritation. Its only redeeming quality lies in its exploration of a scenario rarely seen in the management genre. However, this alone does not warrant an immediate recommendation.
Mar 13, 2026
5
Es un pena que, a día de hoy, el juego siga sin esta optimizado. Las ideas y la ambientación están ahí, y hasta a mí con solo estos elementos me ha enganchado hasta el final, pero no puedo negar que cada dos por tres hay bugs que te arruinan la partida (y yo que pensaba que esto solo era en la versión de los mares del sur). Encima en el tercer y último capítulo, la dificultad ni existe cuando ya tienes el hospital mejorado al máximo y la plantilla con personal ocupando todas las tareas necesarias para que no se te muera prácticamente ni un paciente, eliminando esa sensación de estrés que tienes durante los primeros minutos de juego y que no se vuelven a repetir. Podía convertirse en mucho más si lo actualizaran un poco, aunque ya nadie lo espera porque lo que sí tiene es un DLDC de pago siendo todavía un título con un regusto final de estar incompleto.
Jan 14, 2024
4
A good but very complex parody of frostpunk. Frostpunk is still made better and more understandable for the player. Too much depends on whether you know what to improve in a particular situation, without guides to pass the 2nd chapter is very difficult, either lack of resources or very quickly drops morale. The dlc even though it looks scary but it is not difficult. For some reason at a point I started to die all the wounded. There are problems with squares instead of letters, bugs were also. Maybe in a couple years this game will be a worthy rival for frostpunk.
Feb 18, 2024
2
The game is unplayable. The bugs overwhelm the game and make any fun experience a bad one.
Dec 13, 2025
0
Laggy, unresponsive, and quite heavy. Practically unplayable past the tutorial.
SummaryThe year is 1917. You are major Henry Wells, a retired British combat medic, drafted back and thrown into the nightmare of World War I. Understaffed and undersupplied, you are the last bastion of hope for countless soldiers at the French Front. Treat horrible war injuries as the commander of a field hospital. Build a facility to heal ... Read More
Rated Tfor Teen
Platforms:
- PC
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
Initial Release Date:Jan 11, 2024
Developer:
- Brave Lamb Studio S.A.
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