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Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.

Galacticare is a story rich, casual and medical sim game developed by Brightrock Games and published by Mythwright.
Released on May 23rd 2024 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Polish.

It has received 570 reviews of which 503 were positive and 67 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 17.44€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Galacticare into these genres:

Story Rich Casual Medical Sim Outbreak Sim RTS Time Management Building Capitalism Economy Management Base-Building Strategy 3D Dark Humor Funny Simulation Sci-fi Aliens Resource Management Singleplayer

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Quad Core CPU @ 2.5GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel Iris
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 30 GB available space

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Jan. 2026
I've played this game obsessively, and I have a fair amount to say. I will keep the short review here at the top. It is as follows: This game is very fun and has a good brand of humor. If you like the first mission, you'll enjoy the rest of the game. It has glitches and bugs, but only really shows them after extended play and don't majorly impact the experience much. If you can tolerate that, this game's great, would highly recommend. For the longer form review, I have attempted to 100% this game in challenge mode, and had to give up on it because of the lengthy list of bugs and other issues I've run into the game for longer play. The base game story had barely any issues, it was well made and funny, with a heartwarming... Mostly heartwarming story and had a good feel to it, even if it was a tad on the easy side after level two. The main trouble begins with sandbox missions or missions with large patient counts. To state the numerous glitches I've endured would take a length of time and text, so I will summarize by saying that I've had the research system (vital for making your life easier) bug out on me every other mission, I've had text glitch in the compendium and ruin the very fun stories by repeating entries or making it unclear if the messages are as intended, or simply glitched out. I've had objects I was attempting to place vanish from existence, still extant in that I could see the various patients and doctors use them but I could no longer move them. I'm unsure if something has broken as computers have advanced and left this game a little in the dust, but it's been a frustrating experience trying to wrangle the game into the 'perfect' state for me to actually complete all of the objectives I want to. The game suffers from performance issues with enough patients, even with a fairly sturdy rig. This can be mitigated with the research system, if you manage to get it to work, but otherwise performance issues were not a major concern. I say this because it took me managing to put 500 patients per 5 minute cycle through my hospital before the performance actually tanked, and then it became almost unplayable. The difference will happen immediately, and can usually be avoided. Aside from that, I have very few complaints. Despite the usual hurdles of these games and ensuring people move to where you need them, it's actually fairly easy to maneuver patients and doctors around even if assigning them and keeping track of who goes where can be a bit maddening. I have no complaints about the gameplay itself, watching things fill up and watching patients get treated is a very zen experience, helped by the muted but still very good soundtrack. The only discomfort I have is that, in sandbox, many of the special events tend to lock themselves in a repeat loop of a very small number, meaning it's going to get very boring very quickly when you hit all of your 'available' missions. I also have not played the DLC. I can't comment on it whatsoever.
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Dec. 2025
I haven't beaten it yet but it's adorable. Very easy game, don't expect a challenge, just fun, fairly mindless clicking around and organizing a hospital in space. It's basically Two-Point Hospital/Theme Hospital re-skinned for space, the campiness is a bit better imo. It's significantly easier than those games, but it also doesn't have the exhausting, over-extended missions where you're waiting for ages for the win-game. It does some cool ideas that the other hospital games mentioned doesn't do: like consultants - allowing doctors that level up with time and go between missions. This makes them overpowered in an already almost insultingly easy game. This being said, every gamer needs a mindless game for after a hard day, and this game could serve that role well. It's also cute and thematically harmless enough for kids. The people hating on this game for being too woke... sorry no one's hugged you in a while. But it's so sad to see that a number of people are genuinely upset that there is no racial or gender oppression in this game. Or the hinting, again very harmlessly, at some queer themes as light jokes (like an alien race unfortunately picking up gender roles from Earth humans even though this alien race is sexless... you also only see this joke if you decide to read the filler content when discovering the first alien race, its not even pertinent to the gameplay, it's just for fun headcannon from anyone who decides to read extra). Much like many child cartoons that have adult jokes thrown in harmlessly for the adults in the room that go over kids heads, the very mildly adult themes in here are not exactly the first thing to jump out at younger audiencess. omg, also the bigot who got mad in these reviews that your boss in-game is black and that black patients can "afford" to go to a space hospital, just, what a terrible place the inside of your head must be. Sorry racism didn't make it all the way to space in this game (again, a game that is clearly made with younger audiences in mind). If you want your racist and mysoginistic space hospital game, stop complaining and go make it, I hope you dedicate enough of your life to it and it sells so little upon release that you just waste your terrible life on your horrible game. stop yucking others' yum, go touch grass, meet a black person, and go to therapy.
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Nov. 2025
One of my top 5 games of all time is Theme Hospital. I understand most people probably got 20 hours out of that title, but I sank about 300 hours into playing and min/maxing the everloving heck out of Theme Hospital (and then Two Point Hospital, its rightful heir) so that's my cred for this review. I played the first two story scenarios and was impressed with the visuals, the polish, the voice acting, the vibe, etc. But wasn't instantly hooked. After the third scenario, something clicked and I understood the bigger picture, and the game's expectations for how many of each type of room to build in response to an influx of patients, and can say this one gets a thumbs up from me. It's just similar enough to scratch the itch I miss from Theme/TwoPoint Hospital, and just new enough to keep me glued to the screen.
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Sept. 2025
If you are old enough to remember the likes of Startopia (And the original Theme Hospital) or enjoy the Two Point series and wish it had more of a Space theme, this is probably for you.
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July 2025
My new favourite hospital tycoon game. Or just favourite tycoon game period. Management layer is perfect grounding: everything works smoothly, you always know what's going on, what can you do and how. I was never disoriented, lost or betrayed by game acting differently from what I wanted. Even amidst hectic crises, only thing in the way of success was my very-much-possible mismanagement. From building to restructuring, from patients to doctors, everything you want to manage, can be done effortlessly (well you still need to think, mind) and game flows in steadily crisp tempo. There's a lot of "cool" conditions to treat, specialized rooms to build, races with different traits to recruit from and so on. All this good stuff delivered with lovingly crafted, rich lore (each disease got its own substory to unlock through research, e. g.). Galacticare also has surprisingly good and gripping story with likeable characters. Elevated to pure joy by, I can't stress this enough, excellent writing and voice acting. Galacticare is comedy first and foremost, but doesn't fall the wacky hole. It revels in intelligent understated humour and layered sarcasm in the best british-like way. Which is godly mana for me. Again, it's an admirable work of writers pouring big talent into this. And again, it's exquisitly delivered by actors. There's nothing cheap, no cut corners here. On the contrary, it surprises only in positive ways. It feels almost unreal to find so polished game nowadays and it coheres with the amount of fun I had the whole time. P. S. If you want to discover other less knows gems, you're welcome to visit my curator page: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45655021-Nods-for-Underdogs/]Nods for Underdogs .
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Frequently Asked Questions

Galacticare is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

Galacticare is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.

Galacticare received 503 positive votes out of a total of 570 achieving a rating of 8.26.
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Galacticare was developed by Brightrock Games and published by Mythwright.

Galacticare is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Galacticare is not playable on MacOS.

Galacticare is not playable on Linux.

Galacticare is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for Galacticare. Explore additional content available for Galacticare on Steam.

Galacticare does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Galacticare does not support Steam Remote Play.

Galacticare is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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