{"id":96602,"date":"2018-01-18T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T10:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=96602"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:41:25","slug":"an-old-favorite-is-getting-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/an-old-favorite-is-getting-a-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"An old favorite is getting a sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theme-hospital-1.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theme Hospital<\/a> was an absolute classic<\/strong> back in the day. Bullfrog\u2019s hospital building sim was anything but a run of the mill affair. Everything down to illnesses of the patients walking through door contained <strong>comical elements<\/strong> and the <strong>resource management elements<\/strong> that Bullfrog had honed in <a href=\"https:\/\/theme-park.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theme Park<\/a> made for a fun yet challenging experience. Now more than 20 years later,<strong> the team behind Theme Hospital are bringing us Hospital 2.0<\/strong> and they\u2019ll be hoping that can hit the same sweet spot that they hit with Theme Hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Theme Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/2\/26\/Theme_Hospital.front_cover.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Theme Hospital<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/theme-hospital-1.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Play Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--90\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"90\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"9\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\">9<\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\">While a hospital simulation isn\u2019t most people\u2019s idea of an exciting game, Theme Hospital takes on the challenge head first and proves doubters wrong. In this game, finding cures for hilarious diseases is all part of the job\u2014you\u2019ll even see the Grim Reaper walking the hallways.<\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/theme-hospital-1.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The announcement trailer shows that Hospital 2.0 <strong>will definitely try to capture the humor elements of Theme Hospital<\/strong>. Light-headedness is something that at one time or another has afflicted us all. Not one of us, however, has had our head <strong>literally turn into a lightbulb<\/strong> like in the Hospital 2.0 trailer. With two of Bullfrog\u2019s own running <strong>Two Point Studios<\/strong>, the studio behind Hospital 2.0, there are <strong>tangible links to Theme Hospital<\/strong> and we hope that they\u2019ll bleed through into this new title.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T6TPTiOCuVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is <strong>no announced release date for Hospital 2.0<\/strong> but if you sign up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twopointhospital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">game\u2019s new website<\/a>, you\u2019ll be kept up to date and get a free in-game item upon the game\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever play Theme Hospital back in the day?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Follow me on Twitter:\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickDevaney_\"><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\">@<b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">PatrickDevaney_<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/theme-hospital-creators-announce-spiritual-sequel-two-point-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">neowin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme Hospital was an absolute classic back in the day. Bullfrog\u2019s hospital building sim was anything but a run of the mill affair. Everything down to illnesses of the patients walking through door contained comical elements and the resource management elements that Bullfrog had honed in Theme Park made for a fun yet challenging experience. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/an-old-favorite-is-getting-a-sequel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An old favorite is getting a sequel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":96603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-96602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328344,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96602\/revisions\/328344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96602"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=96602"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=96602"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=96602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}