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The humor is hit or miss, but as a management game, it graduates with honors.

Two Point Campus continues in the already impressive footsteps of Two Point Hospital before it, dressing up an engaging business management SIM in goofy irreverence. To be honest, its dorky, oddball sense of humor misses me more often than it hits. But that all fades into the background for the most part when I’m having a blast laying out my new library, planning out dorms, and throwing sweet parties in the student union.

Most of the time you’ll be juggling your budget, student happiness, and the space requirements of running a university. It’s similar to Two Point Hospital in that last regard – making the best of annoying geometry to cram in an extra lecture theater or much-needed bathroom put my mental Tetris skills to the test, and often forced me to abandon the idea of a perfect layout in the interest of a functional one. That can sometimes get tiresome, but it’s also not really an issue later on when you get some bigger plots and the ability to make buildings whatever shape you want. So by the time it had overstayed its welcome, I was given the much appreciated freedom not to deal with it anymore.

Two Point Campus. Launch Screens

The Sandbox mode is where Two Point Campus really shines, letting you loose to build the school of your dreams on any of the 12 different themed plots. Some are outright wacky, like a spy school that uses a burger joint as a cover. Others are a bit more vanilla, like an Oxford-inspired campus in the faux-English countryside. And the same goes for the courses available, with everything from General Knowledge to actual Knight School – yes, that’s Knight with a K. So you can kind of adjust your level of silliness to your preference, which is nice.

Each campus is introduced through a story-driven scenario that includes its own special rules. I definitely liked some of these more than others. Funding my university entirely on plundered artifacts from an archaeological dig has a bit of an, Are we the baddies? vibe, but I found it entertaining. On the other hand, running a parody of a SoCal party school where my entire budget was based on how much fun the students were having became mechanically tedious pretty quickly due to the extremely small profit margins and low return on investment for all the expensive amenities I provided.

You only have to clear five of these to unlock all 12 maps in sandbox mode, though. So if you’re just not feeling the scenario objectives, they’re easy enough to ignore. And once outside the bounds of the campaign, I enjoyed how progression works. Adding more facilities and staff, as well as leveling up your various rooms by adding decorations and more learning opportunities, will level up the whole university and provide more course points and Kudosh, a special currency that unlocks more cosmetic options and ploppable doodads. Course points can be spent to add new programs or expand existing ones, and that creates a rewarding feeling of going from a dingy backup school to a thriving university.

Not all courses are built the same, either. The aforementioned Archaeology program lets you dig up artifacts that can be put on display to raise your campus’ prestige, or sold to pad out your budget. Academic Exercise revolves around the sport of Cheeseball, where you can schedule games against rival schools and compete for glory. Not every course has its own minigame like this, but the ones that do effectively let you be more hands-on during a school year and create extra, thematic goals to strive for.

The more nitty-gritty campus management aspects can be a bit frustrating, though. While the UI is legible and organized, it’s sometimes hard to quickly find information I’d really like access to, like why a particular student has low grades. The Advice screen is very helpful in this regard, since it usually tells you what your biggest problems are in plain language. But it doesn’t really help you understand how the systems work to allow you to spot those problems intuitively in the future. There are also a number of things I wish had tooltips that don’t for some reason, like the Academic Overview. Overlays for all the various happiness and comfort factors are great, but again, they don’t necessarily help you figure out why a problem exists – only that there is one.

The visual style of Two Point Campus is almost identical to Two Point Hospital, and it’s one that makes everything very readable. It’s also not exactly my vibe, though. Just like the humor often doesn’t do it for me, rarely rising above what you’d find in a kids’ joke book, the stylized and whimsical models and animations seem a bit like a playset you’d find in the Early Childhood section of a toy store. I don’t need every game I play to look like a photorealistic, ray-traced military simulator, but I’m just not charmed by this particular aesthetic either.

The theming of the various maps, on the other hand, does get me excited. Being able to have a knight school inside of an actual castle is pretty rad. There’s enough diversity that whatever kind of university you can imagine, there’s probably a plot that fits it well. I wish there were some more carpet and wallpaper options for some rooms, and the lack of the ability to make slanted or curved buildings is a little bit limiting. But the grid helps keep things simple and modular as well, so it’s a trade-off. And I do enjoy personalizing everything with posters, landscaping, and statues.

Verdict

When it comes right down to it, Two Point Campus is a deep and rewarding management game. And that’s what matters most here. Growing my college, hiring and training faculty, adding new courses, spiffing up my dorms, and watching my grades and profits soar in the Sandbox mode is addicting enough that I could keep at it for dozens of hours more, even after having put in almost 40 hours for this review. The art style and quirky humor don’t really do it for me most of the time, but they’re usually not actively obnoxious, and eventually I sort of just tuned them out. At the end of the semester, I’d pass Two Point Campus with a solid B.

Is Two Point Campus on Xbox Game Pass or PS Plus? Day 1 deals explained

After years of development (and one memorable delay), Two Point Campus is launching into the world today, but is the new game from Two Point Studios coming to Xbox Game Pass?

We praised the game in our five-star Two Point Campus review, saying, It’s not too often that a game comes along that can make you laugh as well as properly challenging you, keeping you entertained as you gradually master ever-trickier tasks, but Two Point Campus has that cunning combination down to a tee. We’d recommend it to anyone that’s ever been hooked on a management game, and it definitely gets an A from us.

But what’s the situation with Two Point Campus and Xbox Game Pass? And what about other subscription services like PS Plus? Keep on reading for the key details. Or for some further reading, check out our page on Two Point Campus Kudosh!

Is Two Point Campus on Xbox Game Pass?

Yes, Two Point Campus will be available on Xbox Game Pass from day one of its launch.

This means that subscribers to Game Pass will be able to access the game at no extra cost on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S or PC via the Xbox Game Pass app.

When will Two Point Campus be available on Xbox Game Pass?

For fans in the UK, Two Point Campus will unlock at 3pm BST on 9th August.

From that time, you should be able to access the game on all of its launch platforms, including Xbox Game Pass for PC and console. So there isn’t long left to wait!

Is Two Point Campus on PS Plus?

No, Two Point Campus will not be available on PS Plus, at least not at launch.

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass seems to be the only subscription service currently offering Two Point Campus as a perk for its members. Sony’s PS Plus, Google’s Stadia Pro and Nintendo’s Switch Online service are all missing out this time.

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Two Point Campus deals

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Education gives you a bright future, then clouds it with debt

The Two Point County Cinematic Universe (TPCCU) excites me. Two Point Studios launched Two Point Hospital with the intent of building a landscape where all their future games would happen. Two Point Campus is the next step. It’s not a sequel, but the aesthetics, the characters, and even the UI call back to their first title. It reminds me of Maxis in the ‘90s before and directly after EA got their evil all over them. A lot of the games sprung up around SimCity, and while not all of them were as directly related as the ones from Two Point Studios, some were tied together, even if it was just in a reference.

I’ve been eagerly waiting for the next step in the Two Point experience. Actually, I’ve been waiting for the next few steps. Forget that, I want to just tumble down the Two Point stairs. I want to be hit in the face with one every second until I’m completely exhausted, a shattered image of the enthusiastic fan I once was. What are we doing here?

Two Point Campus (PC [Reviewed], PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) Developer: Two Point Studios Publisher: Sega Released: August 9, 2022 MSRP: 39.99

As the name implies, Two Point Campus has you building your own post-secondary education dispensary. And building it again. Then again. Twelve times in all. Your job is to meet a series of goals that may or may not relate to the well-being of your students and their futures. Once you accomplish all the goals on a given map, you’re off to the next one.

Even if the goals are different and the games play in considerably unique ways, the framework of Two Point Campus mirrors Two Point Hospital. Each of its levels gives you a new challenge to overcome. Sometimes you’re simply trying to win the national sportsball championship. Other times you’re digging in the earth for the priceless and irreplaceable artifacts of humanity’s past and selling them. Each stage has a similar flow, but things are shaken up enough to keep things from growing moss.

The most toilet-y city in the county

Generally, you start your school with a small handful of cash to get it off the ground. You need to FOCUS on simply getting a course started; amenities like somewhere to pee can come once you’re established and making money.

The first year doesn’t require much: a lecture theatre, a practical testing spot, and a teacher. A library if you don’t want everyone to fail. Each additional year ramps up what you need, so keep money put away or prepare to take a loan. You’re walked through the process a few times before you need to figure it out on your own, but it’s still easy to be a little over-ambitious with your spending.

After you start making money, you need to decide whether to add additional courses or simply expand the ones you have. You don’t necessarily need to offer a multitude of courses, but you can. Some of them use the same facilities, so if you pick them right, you don’t need to bloat up your campus. You can also play with individual aspects of courses. Don’t want a lot of students but still want to charge them an arm and a leg. That’s the dream, friend, and you can do it in Two Point Campus.

Not playing Two Point Architect

Most stages offer new courses to try out. There’s a Hogwarts-inspired magic school, a chivalrous castle campus, and even a clandestine spy factory. Once you’ve unlocked a course on another campus, you can use them on any campus. My favorite was archeology since students dig huge pits and uncover treasure. I liked putting pits where they don’t belong, like beside a pool or in a park. Two Point Campus gave no judgment. At least someone appreciates my chaos.

Some of the same problems that were in Two Point Hospital are carried over here. One of the biggest issues I had was rebuilding each time is somewhat repetitive. The trickle of additional courses adds a bit more variety to the experience than the new diseases did in Two Point Hospital, but eventually, it becomes abrasive. To their credit, additions made to Two Point Hospital after release to alleviate the issue — such as being able to copy rooms or save them as templates — have made their way over to Two Point Campus. However, for some people, this will be the breaking point. For others, it won’t be an issue at all.

One big change in Two Point Campus’ features is the ability to construct the outer shells of buildings. In Two Point Hospital, you bought a lot, and it would plop down a pre-constructed building for you to organize your rooms in. For Two Point Campus, you can build them however you like. For me, it’s rectangles. All of them; rectangles. It’s the most efficient shape, and you don’t have to think much about how you organize your rooms. I’m not playing Two Point Architect here, so bite me.

Foldable pizza

It helps that I love the humor featured in the Two Point series. It depicts a world where absolutely everyone is as daft as sponge cake. It’s likely that you’ll most commonly view the game from up high in the seat of God, but when you zoom in, there’s usually someone making themselves look ridiculous. Considering the number of interactions in the game, the amount of animation has to be dizzying, and it makes everything feel full of life.

The radio DJs are back. I hope I’m not the only one who found them hilarious. They’re small breaks between music tracks where a fictional radio personality goes through a short skit or anecdote. All the ones present in Two Point Hospital return, as well as a couple of college radio hosts. Harrison Wolff is still my favorite, though I didn’t hear a skit with him that equals the one from the previous game where he gets locked in the recording studio. Still, there were quite a few instances where I laughed to myself, alone, in my “office.” Honestly, I could probably just have fun listening to the hosts.

Moving to the county, gonna eat a lotta pizzas

Here’s the deal: if you didn’t like Two Point Hospital, chances are low that Two Point Campus will click with you. While the subject matter is completely different, the flow of the game has changed, and some improvements have been made, it’s similar enough that it carries all the same possible points of friction.

On the other hand, if you did dig Two Point Hospital, then you’ll find everything you loved about it here on campus. I’d say I even prefer it to the previous title, if only because I enjoy the subject matter a bit more.

If you haven’t visited Two Point County before, then Two Point Campus is a perfect starting point. There’s absolutely no requirement that you played the previous game in the series to enjoy this one. However, if you’re already accustomed to the interface and overall mechanics, this will be a comfortable temperature to slide into.

For me, I couldn’t be happier. Well, I could. A university may be a different ballgame than a hospital, but it’s not a very shocking twist. I’d love to see Two Point County zoomed into something small like a restaurant or sports team, or zoomed out to a city or, well, county. But Two Point Campus is a wonderful return to the universe, and I’ll happily — perhaps impatiently — be waiting for the next chance to visit.

[This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher.]

8.5

Impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding them back. Won’t astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash.

Staff Writer. Zoey is a gaming gadabout. She got her start blogging with the community in 2018 and hit the front page soon after. Normally found exploring indie experiments and retro libraries, she does her best to remain chronically uncool.

Two Point Campus (Xbox Series X) Review

I thought I finished school back in 08’ but Two Point Campus sucked me back in just in time for back-to-school, and it was a lot more fun on the Xbox Series X than it was in real life. Two Point Studios and SEGA brought us Two Point Hospital in 2018 and are back four years later with Two Point Campus, a college/university focused version of the Two Point title.

I am a fan of SIM games all around. Once upon a time The Sims 4 was a regular part of my gaming rotation, and right now Stardew Valley and Little Witch in the Woods are my go-tos. Two Point Campus fit right in with the rest, and perhaps even hooked me a little better than some others. In the game, you FOCUS on building the perfect campus, whether it be for wizards, artists, tech enthusiasts, or even spies. Your job is to FOCUS on the buildings, classes, decorations, budget, staff and so much more.

Jumping into Two Point Campus, I thought it was a breeze during the first few levels, Freshleigh Meadows, Piazza Lanatra and Mitton University. Granted, these are tutorials and early gameplay, meant to teach you the ropes. Something that I loved while learning how to play Two Point Campus was that each level teaches you something new. It wasn’t until Spiffinmoore (Wizardry level) that you learned about loans, and each level taught you a different aspect of the game.

“Two Point Campus really does let your imagination run wild.”

Though that is great when starting out, I really just wanted to bang every level out to the minimum requirements, so I could unlock the other levels, and then FOCUS on where I was the happiest. This is where some personal organizational issues came into play though. Though you’re able to put any classes you want in any map…it felt so, so wrong to have jousting next to my VR building.

My own neuroses aside, Two Point Campus really does let your imagination run wild. You can eventually unlock different outfits, wall coverings and decorations. Items that affect different attributes in the game like entertainment, hunger, thirst, attractiveness and more can also be unlocked, and you’ll need to be sure to keep a balance throughout your campus, or you will find yourself with whiny staff and students.

Controlling the map was made very simple with the controller’s joysticks. Being able to pan, zoom and tilt really allowed me to check out what my campus was up to from every angle. It also helped with placing objects in just the right spot. My only complaint about visibility would be when trying to assess the campus’ needs.

Entertainment, hunger, heat etc are all found in a submenu and when turned on it will highlight where they are on the map. The issue is that this isn’t a simple toggle, it is a few menus deep and takes time to turn on and off, and you need to exit the menu in order to move the map around. I found it more frustrating than anything.

I did run into a few glitches during gameplay. Once I clearly completed a mission, but the game wouldn’t accept that I placed the correct building. After trying a few things, I ultimately had to close out and load back up and that fixed things. I also had a recurring issue when scrolling through the different things I could build. When looking through the buildings, it would often bump me to the top of the screen, and get stuck on a loop between the top five or so. Again, closing and opening it helped, but it was still frustrating.

The menu system is a bit more complicated than it needs to be. When you think of games like The Sims, for instance, it was always much easier to handle on PC. Point and click is a much simpler solution when there are just so many menu levels to get through. There were often times when I would get stuck trying to find information about a room, student or teacher. Every pop up menu has sub categories, and it can take some time before you catch on to where it all is, especially when they all have their own bindings on the Xbox Series X controller.

“Two Point Campus has a lot to keep track of, and depending on your gameplay, you may take advantage of a lot of it, or neglect it.”

In all actuality, there are probably many options that could have been removed from the game, avoiding the menu overkill altogether. That really depends on how you like to play, and just how much you want to micromanage your staff, students and classes. You have the option to place everyone at a job, send students to Private Tuition, respond to individual wants and needs, plan parties, schedule each individual class yourself and so much more.

Two Point Campus has a lot to keep track of, and depending on your gameplay, you may take advantage of a lot of it, or neglect it. Realistically, the game still runs pretty well even if you aren’t as hands-on with individual people. I loved that Two Point Studios created the game in a way that allows different kinds of playstyles while still giving players the chance to succeed. I can’t wait to do a deep dive into my next map and really FOCUS all my energy on one campus.

The replay value that Two Point Campus has is incredible. Not only are there multiple maps and themes, there are plenty of course options, aesthetic choices, and even long-term achievements (“Career Goals”) to complete. I was thrilled that the game will keep challenging me, and that there are options if I’m looking to create something new.

Two Point Campus is a funny, quirky, complex simulation game that gives players plenty to do in the long run. With a few quality of life issues that may just be personal complaints for me, this SIM really managed to impress. Two Point Campus will absolutely be a game I come back to time and time again; I’m just waiting for that motherlode cheat!

Final Thoughts

Two Point Campus brings laughs to the simulation genre while allowing adaptive playstyles without ruining the player’s chance at success.

Two Point Campus Xbox review: Does it pass or fail?

Two Point Studios has managed to take a management scenario that would otherwise seem incredibly boring and turn it into a simulator that is both fun and funny to play.

Pros

• Great wordplay
• New facial animations make characters feel lively
• Accessible to new and experienced SIM players

Cons

• – Sharp difficulty spike in later scenarios
• – Subtitles and alerts overlap and can be difficult to read

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In 2018, Two Point Studios released their first game, Two Point Hospital, and introduced a new generation of players to the wacky and unconventional world of Two Point County. Now they’re inviting players to return to their claymation-inspired world to take over managerial duties for a variety of college campuses in Two Point Campus. Much like its predecessor, Two Point Campus embraces puns and slapstick humor to make an otherwise stiff institution feel more endearing.

In my hands-on preview with Two Point Campus, I had the opportunity to check out just a few of the campuses that players were going to be responsible for in the game. Little did I know at the time just how much more expansive Two Point Campus was actually going to be in its finished state. While I was already impressed with the game’s humor and creative design choices, it turned out to be the challenge and attention to details that hooked me in the end.

Two Point Campus: What you’ll like

If you’re unfamiliar with how to play a management simulator, Two Point Campus has you covered. The first few school scenarios that the game throws new players into are relatively tame, serving as effective tutorials where players can get a grasp on basic gameplay concepts like providing for their students’ needs and setting a class curriculum. Players are taught the importance of placing vending machines and benches as well as constructing dormitories and classrooms during these tutorials. Each scenario rewards a star for completing a set of tasks. The tasks increase in difficulty and completing all challenges for a particular scenario will reward the player with a three-star ranking. Players must collect the stars to unlock additional college scenarios around the map of Two Point County.

Scenarios start during the summer break, with the player controlling when they’re ready to start the academic year. During the pre-school year downtime players can take on constructing new campus buildings, landscaping, and make adjustments to the classes that will be offered on their campus. There may also be some requirements for the upcoming year that the player will need to address before getting started, such as hiring additional teachers or building classrooms that meet the needs of the courses being offered. Once your campus is ready, you can start the year.

Housing students, providing them (questionably) nutritional snack options and a path toward a degree is only the beginning of managing a campus. Plenty of things can — and do — go sideways in classic Two Point slapstick fashion. Your campus may be inundated with frog rain, cursed by a jealous witch who sends in meteor showers just to make you miserable, or even the victim of rabid sports fans who harass your hard (or hardly) working students and staff just before the big game. Dealing with most of the issues you’ll run into on your campus, however, is as simple as having adequate, well-trained staff on hand.

Typically, management simulators on console struggle with porting key bindings and shortcuts for menus to controllers. Even Two Point Studio’s previous game struggled with being controller friendly for its Xbox release. Thankfully it seems the studio has learned from its past mistakes, as both the UI and the key bindings for Two Point Campus were developed with the intention to be controller friendly from the beginning. The game’s menus, while robust, are condensed and thought out so that every element can be accessed with no more than just a couple of button presses or mouse clicks.

The menus can provide players valuable data with which they can plan their strategy for how to overcome certain scenarios. Some campuses may be too cold, for example, and a temperature overlay can be used to check that radiator placement is sufficient to warm students up. Similarly, an overlay can also be toggled on or off to check things like student or staff happiness and campus cleanliness. When a student is at risk of failing or dropping out, an alert pops up that allows the player to hone in on that particular troublemaker and deal with them accordingly.

Improved menus and controller bindings are not the only upgrades that Two Point Campus boasts over Two Point Hospital, though. Two Point Campus’ development team has put together a whole new rigging system for facial animations, adding extra life to the already comically animated Two Point countians. These new animations add to the liveliness of the characters, making them feel more believable in this absurd world that they’re a part of.

Two Point Campus: What you won’t like

For all of the things that Two Point Campus gets right, there are still some design choices that feel like missteps that rear their head from time to time. The earliest levels of the game are incredibly simplified and can feel like they’re holding back more advanced players even when it comes to their three-star challenges. Alternatively, the difficulty spike outside of those tutorial scenarios is surprisingly sharp, and it could be off-putting for someone who is dipping into management simulators for the first time.

Two Point Campus makes use of both a cash currency and an in-game currency called Kudosh. Kudosh is also necessary for unlocking items related to student classes, such as class-specific bookcases or learning stations. These items can be required for a student to pass a class, but there are no lists of required items for students or indications that these may become necessary items before they actually do. In the case of some items, like class-specific bookcases, they are not even available to unlock prior to a student needing it. If you spend your limited amount of Kudosh before receiving an alert that these items are needed, you can quickly find yourself in a tight predicament where a large number of students are failing, considering dropping out, or refusing to pay their fees.

The more a player finds themselves struggling, the more pop-ups and alerts begin to inundate the player’s screen. One notification may alert that there are five students considering dropping out, but then immediately be followed up by additional alerts for each individual student who is having a problem. It can be nice to click an alert and immediately be focused on the problem student so that you can attempt to fix their issue, but when these alerts are rapidly taking over the notification area they can simply get overwhelmed and lose track of what issue you’re specifically trying to take care of.

To add to the chaos and clutter, turning on Two Point Campus’ subtitles places them squarely over the notification area. The subtitles have white text with a semi-transparent black background which, when layered over top of the text box for notifications can result in an absolute mess that makes both elements difficult to read.

Two Point Campus: Should you buy it?

The management simulator genre can be a difficult beast to tackle. Oftentimes games in this genre are bloated with menus and overlays along with a myriad of choices that can quickly overcome a beginning player. Two Point Campus does an excellent job of trimming the fat around the menus and options to keep things simplified enough that pretty much anybody can pick it up and give it a try while still leaving enough depth to keep hardcore SIM fans actively engaged.

The menu layout, however, means nothing if the game itself is not fun. This is where Two Point Campus shines the brightest. Courses that you can offer on campus feature humorous wordplay like Gastronomy and Funny Business, and you can’t help but smile as you watch your students whip up a giant pizza in the kitchen you have built to serve as their classroom. There’s something incredibly satisfying about challenging a rival school to a Cheeseball tournament and then seeing your students full of life after a victory. Realistically, the idea of managing a college campus is something that sounds dull and uninteresting, but through the sheer willpower of wit and whimsy, Two Point Studios has succeeded at making it not just a fun experience but a funny one, as well.

Two Point Campus is an Xbox Play Anywhere title and can be accessed seamlessly on both Xbox and PC. While I personally found the game better suited to playing with a mouse, the controller scheme is plenty suitable, and it is perfectly reasonable to switch between both platforms. Regardless of whether I was on PC or Xbox, the game played flawlessly and never experienced any crashes or instability. Two Point Campus launches on Xbox Game Pass, so regardless of whether you’re an experienced SIM manager or you’re looking to dip your toes into the genre for the first time, you can try out Two Point Campus.

Two Point Campus

Puns and slapstick humor come together to make managing a variety of college campuses a hilarious endeavor.