Two Point Museum
Publisher: SegaDeveloper: Two Point StudiosAvailability: TBCPlatforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
What impressed me most about Two Point Studios’ previous games was how far they flourished from a single concept. The simple seed of a hospital setting, and then a campus, were able to offer such a depth of systems, such a variety of gameplay – and of course a whole load of gags.
That’s just as true with the newly-announced Two Point Museum, where, as the title implies, players are tasked with creating and managing a museum of historical exhibits. But, this being a Two Point game, things aren’t as simple as they may first seem. Think Night At The Museum, but with zany and sarcastic British humour.
Designing a museum, decorating exhibits, adding gifts shops full of tat, providing restaurants, and seeking donations. All the obvious boxes have been ticked, but these alone would be mundane. Because of course, here in the world of Two Point County, exhibits aren’t just a handful of bones but opportunities for discovery, as well as potential disaster.
Yet with all the possibilities of sim management games set in the wacky fictional world of Two Point County, why settle on a museum?
“We’ve got a list of lots of different ideas we consider for future games,” design director Ben Huskins tells me as I sat down to play a brief demo of Two Point Museum. “The thing that really got us excited about Museum when we first started talking about it was this idea of building up these collections of these amazing artefacts… How do I get these amazing things to find and display in my museum? That immediately sparked lots of ideas with us.”