Two Point Campus

Two Point Campus is a management game for people who like systems that can be tuned room by room. By our assessment, its real strength is the comic campus-building loop: planning lecture halls, dorms, clubs, queues and budgets while keeping students vaguely functional and the money coming in. The trade-off is that the humour and the light tone sit on top of fairly busy menus, so the pleasure comes from juggling layouts rather than from any dramatic challenge. In practice it plays like a cheerful spreadsheet with corridors, and the loop of fixing one problem only to create another is where it keeps its energy. It sits close to Two Point Hospital and the older Theme Hospital style rather than to grand strategy. The whole thing asks for patience with micromanagement and a taste for tidy optimisation.