War Hospital

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.

This War Hospital review will help you take a closer look into how a field hospital worked during World War I in 1918, as we take on the nerve-racking task by playing as Major Henry Wells, where we must decide who gets to live and who gets to die, all the while managing the scarce resources due to the ongoing war efforts at that time.

War Hospital is nowhere near the most sophisticated, nor the most polished strategy game money can buy, but it nonetheless does a commendable job of making you feel what managing an overwrought war hospital at the forefront of one of the most deadly wars in human history could be like. Though it's relatively simplistic tactical beats might not appeal to expert strategists, War Hospital's more narrow scope and poignant subject matter do make it a much more easily digestible proposition for both genre newcomers and perhaps more crucially, for first-person shooter folks who have ever given though...

War Hospital has its heart in the right place but unfortunately that’s not enough to make a good game. The loop is more interesting in theory than in practice, and it becomes repetitive and more of a chore to play than it should be. There’s no denying that the idea of paying homage to the brave people working in hospitals during such times deserves a wholehearted recommendation, but sadly as a game per se, War Hospital isn’t much more than a good attempt.

War Hospital has some interesting ideas, but the game has some issues and bugs that ruin the experience currently.

War Hospital is ineffective when it comes to its story's relationship with death, while also failing to impress with its uneventful, buggy management sim gameplay.