Fun Hospital

Dealing with sick people can be quite depressing sometimes, which is why it’s not easy to become a doctor and spend your days in a hospital. However, video games are a different story, given the fact that the characters depicted in them are not real. Hence, it should be a lot easier to deal with the subject when the patients are virtual, and even more so if the main goal is to have fun.

Fun Hospital is an arcade game that allows you to build your very own hospital and manage every aspect of it, as well as hire staff to take care of your facilities and the patients. The game is far from complex, but as the name implies, this is not an actual simulator, but more of a colorful sandbox to waste a bit of time with every now and again.

You start with an empty building that can be filled with all sorts of facilities, and you are free to position the offices and treatment centers as you please around the floor. You also get to pick a specialist to man these centers, each one of whom comes with more or less expertise on the subject, depending on your budget. Naturally, you are pretty short on cash at the beginning, so the options are quite limited.

All of these facilities are also designed to increase your earnings, however, because patients have to pay in order to be treated. Better staff can increase your earnings, and more advanced facilities are also more costly. On the other hand, it’s worth noting that there’s a lot of waiting involved when it comes to building new things, which can be a bit of a turn off if you just want to have a bit of quick fun.

In terms of interface, the game was clearly designed with tablets and smartphones in mind, but it’s not a huge issue. The PC port works quite well with a mouse, even if some of the controls are strange, including the zooming option. Visually, you shouldn’t expect top-notch graphics, but the colorful assets are quite detailed, even if you zoom in as far as the game allows you.

Fun Hospital is not a bad game, but the fact that you have to stare at the screen for minutes on end sometimes without something to do is a bit annoying. Hence, make sure you do not go in expecting fast-paced gameplay because you will be disappointed.