Two Point Hospital – new DLC, Jumbo Edition, and free update releasing on Switch in March

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch

Two Point Hospital players on Switch have a lot to look forward to. On March 5, the game is getting new Off the Grid and Close Encounters DLC, which will be bundled together with everything else released so far in a Jumbo Edition. A free update is planned for the same day.

Here’s the rundown of everything that’s in the pipeline:

That’s right, two more of our awesome expansions are coming to console! That’s not all though, dearest reader… A brand new, bigger, bulkier, edition of the game is coming your way too. Say hello to JUMBO – our most gigantic release yet, filled to the brim with delicious contenty goodness!
This is by far the best offering we’ve ever created for both new and existing players like you, with an enormous four expansions, two huge item packs (that’s 27 hospitals, 189 illnesses and 100s of items!) AND a free update including some of the most popular community requested features, this is something you definitely won’t want to miss. With options to upgrade your current game to the JUMBO Edition, or just to grab whichever expansion you fancy individually, there’s something for absolutely everyone!
Over 3 million people are playing Two Point Hospital, so if you’re new to the game this is the perfect opportunity to find out why our beloved little hospital sim has become such a healthcare phenomenon! If you’re a Two Point veteran, or you dabble in the occasional hospital shenanigans, now’s your time to explore even more regions of the county and expand your ever-growing healthcare empire!
Of course, you’re going to want to know all the ins and outs of this, so to make things simple we’ve created this handy little chart to show you exactly what you’re getting with the Two Point Hospital: JUMBO Edition, along with more details below! Remember, if you’ve already bought the game, you can upgrade your current version or get the individual expansions as you please!
Delving a little deeper, here’s everything you need to know about all of the upcoming content:
PAID EXPANSIONS (INCLUDED WITH JUMBO)
From Hogsport to Blighton, from Flemington to Smogley, from here to remote corners of the Wanderoff County Park, everyone is talking about Mother Nature. Tabitha Windsock, Two Point County’s every-present mayor, has put rivers and forests back on the map with her sudden concern for ‘green-issues’. She’s got morals, integrity and, above all else, a cloying desperation to stay in office. That’s right, voter research has repeatedly suggested that the environment is the No. 1 issue on everyone’s mind, here in Two Point County, and Ms Windsock is more than willing to fall on the sword of extensive positive press by founding the Department of Green Things.
You’ll face new illnesses, some of them bizarre, even by your standards, and manage new gameplay mechanics on your route to eco-friendly success. We believe in you, and Tabitha does too (sort of).
What’s included?
3 awesome new locations
35 new illnesses (9 of them visual)
3 weird and wonderful new cure machines
New items
Down in the town of Goldpan, rumours persist of an out of this world encounter. A fireball, witnessed streaking above the sandy climes of Two Point County’s Eastern reaches, is chief suspect after a range of unusual illnesses have caused strife, commotion and general unrest amongst the inhabitants of this oft-forgotten town.
As an all-round medical supremo with a knack for tackling the unreal, your administration has operational access to some key locations in the area… including some areas the public really don’t need to know about. The Two Point Squabbler, the County’s finest journalistic institution, wants to know what’s going on… and you’re their ticket in.
What’s included?
3 mysterious new locations
3 new, fully animated cure machines
11 new visual illnesses
34 new illnesses in total
New gameplay
New music, DJ and tannoy lines
Blaze a sterilised trail through a tropical island for an eccentric millionaire in search of a fabled source of death-defying water. Part-time explorer and notorious germaphobe, Wiggy Silverbottom, is on a quest to discover the secrets of eternal life. As a hospital administrator with a flair for the unconventional, Wiggy needs your help to unlock this most majestic of bounties. Expand your medical frontiers. Experience new sights. Yearn to discover the greatest secret of all.
What’s included?
3 adventurous new locations
34 new illnesses (10 of which are visual)
New wonderful cure machines
New items
New gameplay
New music, DJ and tannoy lines
Explore a new wintery region, featuring three brand new hospitals, 34 new region-specific illnesses (including 9 new visual illnesses), and a whole host of new in-game items.
Local celebri-yeti Bartholomew F. Yeti, the otherwise reclusive furball, has been petitioning for better healthcare in the Pointy Mountains, home to the most frequently forgotten people in all of Two Point County. Mr Yeti will need your help, curing new illnesses such as Cold Shoulder, Bard Flu, and Aurora Snorealis!
3 wintery new locations
34 new illnesses (9 of which are visual)
New cure machines
New items
New gameplay
New music, DJ and tannoy lines
RETRO ITEMS PACK
Turn back the clock with this delightful collection of 26 new retro and vintage items to place in your hospitals.
Here’s just a selection of some of the items in the Pack:
EXHIBITION ITEMS PACK:
What is Art? Sure, it’s paintings and sculptures and things like that. But really… what is Art? Well, rather than dip into that profound can of worms, we’ve summarised our answer with a lovely collection of items.
Here’s just a few of the items in the Exhibition Pack:
FREE UPDATE
The free update is coming to all console platforms regardless of whether you have the JUMBO Edition or not! So don’t worry if you can’t afford it right now, or you’re not sure if it’s quite right for you, everyone gets something in Two Point County!
ROOM TEMPLATES
Room Templates is arguably the most popular feature the Two Point Hospital community have requested, and we’re super excited for console players to experience them too. Build yourself a stunning room, save it as a template and place it in any of your other hospitals! Room Templates make building your dream hospital so much easier, and have really enhanced the way you play the game. In the main game, we recommend having a template for each of the rooms you used to have to build at the start of every hospital (looking at you, GP Office!), that way you can quickly put your rooms down and focus on more important things like… are there enough Cheesy Gubbins to go around?
Don’t forget to share you template with us on our social channels too, we can’t wait to see the awesome rooms the console community creates!
REMIX 1 & 2
R.E.M.I.X is a digital recreation of some of your favourite levels:
Hogsport
Lower Bullocks
Flottering
Mitton University
Tumble
Flemington
What do we mean by digital recreation? Excellent question! The good people at Bungle came up with the idea to create a hospital simulator simulation… or something like that… where you’ll complete goals to receive stars. Of course, being digital, these stars don’t actually reflect anything tangible, they aren’t a standardised rating by a recognised board like the Two Point Health Ministry, they’re purely symbolic of progress and an understood practice in video games. Let’s face it, now you know about them, you want them, right?
That’s a whole six levels with interesting, new mechanics to get your teeth into!
BUG FIXES
Along with these hugely popular features we will of course have a huge range of bug fixes included as well, including (but not limited to) lots of stability fixes for those pesky crashes some of you have been reporting. Upon launch, we’ll put out the full release notes so you can see exactly what’s been fixed.
Phew, quite the plethora of content right? Which is why there’s never been a better time to try your hand at being a top-notch healthcare administrator! Of course if you’ve already got the game, don’t panic, you don’t have to buy the whole thing again (that would be silly!). You can choose whether to straight up upgrade your current copy to the JUMBO Edition and get all the extras, or pick and choose which DLCs you’d prefer to have; the choice is yours!
The Two Point Hospital: JUMBO Edition and Free Update are coming to Playstation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on the 5th of March 2020 for $39.99 /€39.99 /£34.99 (prices may vary depending on your platform and/or region). If the have the game already, you can upgrade your version or buy the DLCs individually, we’ll confirm the prices of these options before launch!