Project Hospital news & patch notes

Hi everybody, It's hard to believe the end of the year is upon us once again! So, let us take the opportunity to wish you all Happy Holidays and relaxing times with your loved ones! Looking back at 2025 - what has the Oxymoron team been up to? Well, there was no time to take the foot off the gas yet as we've been pushing hard to complete the promised Early Access updates of Heroes of Science and Fiction and get us close to its full release (which is now not too far away). We've added two new playable factions, two campaigns, the map editor, a lot of content and features and even managed to successfully go through the terrifying process of renaming a game. Thanks to everybody who helped with testing and also to everybody who purchased either of our games during the year or has written a review! On the outside it looks like the whole game development industry is in a state of turmoil, but we are still in a pretty good spot thanks to all of you! 🙂 Now, it's time for us to take some deserved time off after a very demanding season, so most of the team will be out of town until January 4th. If you encounter any issues, don’t hesitate to ask our amazing community here on the Steam forum, otherwise we should be able to get back to you at the beginning of January. Also, there's a new Project Hospital patch ready for testing on a beta branch (more info), so please leave us a note on the Steam forum if you try it out and encounter anything out of the ordinary - we'll give it a proper look before the patch goes live. Thanks! So, enjoy the Winter Sale and then Happy Holidays and see you in the New Year! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/c40465873da33d6549af8ff0e43ed2ef083a68e6.png

Hi everybody, We have a small update of Project Hospital ready for a quick round of beta testing before it gets released to the whole player base. While the team has been busy working on Heroes of Science and Fiction as we're now very close to the full release of our second game, we keep fixing game-breaking bugs in Project Hospital that get still reported every now and then (and there was also the Unity security vulnerability that needed patching too - luckily, there have been no reports of it being exploited so far). As usually, we have put the new patch on a beta branch first, so, if you'd like to help us with the last round of testing especially to check different kinds of hardware and setups, you can switch to beta-patch-43-test under Betas in the game's Properties in your Steam library. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/a77a58dfcb976e0035fd7cfba9a6167271e53a1c.png The release notes are listed below as always:

Project Hospital 1.2.23726 - Patch 43

Fixes and changes

• Applied Unity's patch for the recently discovered security vulnerability to the Windows build
• Fixed game load on Mac could get broken by the presence of hidden system "AppleDouble" files
• Fixed a case of taken over patients going to a specialist examination stuck in a loop in the waiting room
• Allowed patients that need a Boston brace to be sent for their treatment from ICU to Orthopaedy
• Minor text fixes

And if you'd like to have a quick look at HoSaF too, here's a link - it's now almost complete and available in Early Access. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147380/Heroes_of_Science_and_Fiction/

Hi everybody, we're happy to announce that patch 42 is now officially out! Here are the full release notes:

• Allowed saved games to be loaded even after removing insurance mods, patients from removed insurance companies will get switched to uninsured
• Fixed objects originally from a closed department but now in a removed room not allowed to be deleted and stuck highlighted in green
• Fixed paramedics from black ambulance stealing hospital stretchers if there is no room to spawn one next to the ambulance, typically if the hospital wall goes all the way to the side of the road
• Fixed patients with symptoms that require life support not automatically transferred from neurology to the ICU
• Fixed parts of the X-Ray machine refunded twice when deleting it
• Fixed possible entity ID conflicts sometimes causing random errors after a few hundreds of ingame days
• Fixed the game starting up with no textures if it was installed to a folder with certain special characters in the path
• Fixed prefab rooms randomly connecting to similar rooms when playing with rotated camera
• Fixed a few typos in English texts (reported by George Chrishams, thanks!)
• Fixed switching employees to radiology was resetting the supervisor of all employees at the department
• Fixed broken description ID of 'closed angle' in most languages causing wrong text to appear
• Fixed a couple of typos in En and Cz texts
• Hotfixed a rare error related to employees stuck with a deleted room as their workspace
• Hotfixed a rare case of nurses stuck moving a removed stretcher
• Hotfixed a couple of cases of patients stuck in wrong hospitalization state
• Hotfixed a patient stuck waiting for a deleted stretcher
• Hotfixed moving stretchers at a random position still assigned to an idle paramedic who left ages ago
• Hotfixed one case of doctors rounds script stuck because of deleted equipment
• Hotfixed an old hotfix of abandoned stretchers could in some cases reset the black ambulance on save/load
• Added more info to log in case of procedures throwing exceptions to help with future bug investigations

Hi everybody, we know some of you have been wondering what the state of Patch 42 is. As more bug reports have been arriving and as we made a few more fixes, we'd like to do one last round of public testing. If you are on the beta-patch-42-test branhc, the game should update for you to version 1.2.23584. Hopefully everything goes smoothly and we'll be able to release the update during the week. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/db197e17cc788f5b10cd7b80b54a4f302f575bdb.png Any issues, please let us know in the discussions or at [email protected], here are release notes with the recent fixes, plus the original list below. Project Hospital 1.2.23584 - Patch 42 - Release Candidate 2

• Fixed objects originally from a closed department but now in a removed room were not allowed to be deleted and got stuck highlighted in green
• Fixed paramedics from black ambulance stealing hospital stretchers if there is no room to spawn one next to the ambulance, typically if the hospital wall goes all the way to the side of the road
• Hotfixed a couple of cases of patients stuck in wrong hospitalization state
• Added more info to the log file in case of procedures throwing exceptions
• Hotfixed one case of a patient stuck waiting for a deleted stretcher
• Hotfixed moving stretchers at a random position still assigned to an idle paramedic who left ages ago
• Hotfixed one case of doctors rounds script stuck because of deleted equipment
• Hotfixed an older hotfix of abandoned stretchers could in some cases reset the black ambulance during save/load :)

Project Hospital 1.2.23446 - Patch 42 - Fixes and changes from Release Candidate 1

• Fixed patients with symptoms that require life support not automatically transferred from neurology to the ICU
• Fixed parts of the X-Ray machine refunded twice when deleting it
• Fixed possible entity ID conflicts sometimes causing random errors after a few hundreds of ingame days, added checks for wrong entities in entity pointers
• Fixed the game starting up with no textures if it was installed to a folder with certain special characters in the path
• Fixed prefab rooms connecting to random similar rooms when playing with rotated camera
• Fixed a few typos in English texts reported by George Chrishams
• Fixed switching employees to radiology was resetting supervisor of all employees at the department
• Hotfixed a rare error related to employees stuck with a deleted room as their workspace
• Hotfixed a rare case of nurses stuck moving a removed stretcher
• Allowed saved games to be loaded even after removing insurance mods, patients from removed insurance companies will get switched to uninsured

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/c40465873da33d6549af8ff0e43ed2ef083a68e6.png Hi everybody, As every year, we would like to wish all of you Happy Holidays and also give you a bit of an update about how things have been going at Oxymoron Games. The big news is - of course - the release of Silence of the Siren in Early Access and four updates that went live since. The game's soundtrack by Matúš Široký is now available too! Silence of the Siren has released with amazing reviews, so big thanks to everybody who gave us thumbs up or helped with feedback and testing before release! We also keep supporting Project Hospital and quite a few bugfixes should release with patch #42 in January. The patch is already available on a beta branch if you'd like to try it now. Next, we have a more recent bit of news: Vojtěch Nepraš has joined the team to fill the role of social media manager/content creator, so you can look forward to more posts, updates and behind the scenes. We also made an account on Bluesky and can already see a lot of activity there. Now, it's time for us to take some time off after a very demanding season, so most of the team will be out of town until January 2nd. If you encounter any issues, don’t hesitate to ask our amazing community here on the Steam forum, otherwise we should be able to get back to you at the beginning of January. So, enjoy the Winter Sale and then Merry Holiday and see you in the New Year!

Hi everybody, Good news, we are ready to start the public round of testing of the next patch of Project Hospital! We had a busy summer preparing the Early Access launch of Silence of the Siren at the end of September - and if you like turn-based games or more specifically the HoMM series, this is something you might enjoy too! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147380/Silence_of_the_Siren/ But, back to Hospital! :) We keep fixing bugs that still get reported from time to time and as usually, we have put the new patch on a beta branch first. So, if you'd like to try this version early and help us with the last round of testing (especially to check different kinds of hardware and setups like the Steam Deck), you can switch to beta-patch-42-test in Properties in your Steam library. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/db197e17cc788f5b10cd7b80b54a4f302f575bdb.png The release notes are listed below as always: Project Hospital 1.2.23446 - Patch 42 - Fixes and changes

• Fixed patients with symptoms that require life support not automatically transferred from neurology to the ICU
• Fixed parts of the X-Ray machine refunded twice when deleting it
• Fixed possible entity ID conflicts sometimes causing random errors after a few hundreds of ingame days, added checks for wrong entities in entity pointers
• Fixed the game starting up with no textures if it was installed to a folder with certain special characters in the path
• Fixed prefab rooms connecting to random similar rooms when playing with rotated camera
• Fixed a few typos in English texts reported by George Chrishams
• Fixed switching employees to radiology was resetting supervisor of all employees at the department
• Hotfixed a rare error related to employees stuck with a deleted room as their workspace
• Hotfixed a rare case of nurses stuck moving a removed stretcher
• Allowed saved games to be loaded even after removing insurance mods, patients from removed insurance companies will get switched to uninsured

Hi everybody, after fixing a few more issues that got reported on the Steam forums since we put the new version on a beta branch, we're happy to announce that patch 41 is now officially out! Thanks a lot for helping us with testing, here are the full release notes: Fixes and changes

• Fixed cloud saves sometimes not available during the first start of the game on a new machine
• Fixed an error in doctor mode patient UI if the player is looking at the last page of the list of doctor's patients and the number of patients (and therefore pages) gets reduced
• Fixed mixed up ureter and urethra terms in shockwave therapy description to match changes we did to the matching symptom description
• Fixed rooms increasing entity ID counts on load, possibly causing some random issues after days of playtime
• Fixed rooms sometimes 'randomly' merging when placing prefab rooms with a rotated camera
• Implemented graying out the new floor confirmation button if limit has been reached, added floor counter to the top of the dialog
• Improved rules for building on the roof, especially related to elevators and added more info to status bar texts when different objects can't be placed on the roof
• Improved a few UI texts (including wrong name of the observation decal in Simplified Chinese localization)
• Added Japanese to the list of 'hospital' translations in loading screens
• Hotfixed one case of a doctor found stuck at mobile workstation
• Hotfixed one case of a radiology examination stuck because of a removed radiologist
• Hotfixed paramedics stuck moving a stretcher to a deleted patient

DLC Traumatology

• Fixed "warning" outdoor floor tiles rotated by 90 degrees with two camera orientations

Hi everybody, While the team has been busy as we aim to release Early Access of Silence of the Siren this year, we still keep fixing any issues in Project Hospital that you report (and that don't turn out to be caused by incompatible mods or local issues with the game install. :) We've been seeing these quite regularly, especially in the last few months). As with previous updates, we have put the new version on a beta branch first. If you'd like to help us with the last round of testing, especially to check different kinds of hardware and setups, you can switch to beta-patch-41-test in Properties in your Steam library, try the patch early and let us know if you run into any issues! The release notes are listed below as always:

Project Hospital 1.2.23270 - Patch 41

• Fixed cloud saves sometimes not available during the first start of the game on a new machine
• Fixed an error in doctor mode patient UI if the player is looking at the last page of the list of doctor's patients and the number of patients (and therefore pages) gets reduced
• Fixed mixed up ureter and urethra terms in shockwave therapy description to match changes we did to the matching symptom description
• Fixed rooms increasing entity ID counts on load, possibly causing some random issues after days of playtime
• Improved a few UI texts
• Added Japanese to the list of 'hospital' translations on loading screens
• Hotfixed one case of a doctor found stuck at a mobile workstation
• Hotfixed paramedics stuck moving a stretcher to a deleted patient

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Hello everybody, It looks like it's time to slowly wrap up 2023 and like every year, let us take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Holiday and a Happy New Year! Also, we would like to thank everybody who bought Project Hospital during the last 12 months or participated in the currently running beta test of Silence of the Siren, our upcoming turn based strategy game. Welcome to the community! For us, the year was mostly consumed by Silence of the Siren, as we're getting closer and closer to its planned release in Early Access. We visited several conferences across Europe including Gamescom and EGX and had a great time showing the game to a lot of you. With Project Hospital, we were mostly helping players with the occasional technical issue and some compatibility problems on the Steam Deck. Also thanks for a few very nice messages with feedback and ideas we received during the year! The team will now be mostly off until January 2nd, which means we might not be available on our social channels. If you encounter any issues, don’t hesitate to ask our amazing community here on the Steam forum, otherwise we should be able to get back to you at the beginning of January. For now enjoy the holidays and the upcoming Winter Sale! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/13d4fd62ade51f092ed1ac0949c81b95d98de87c.gif https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147380/Silence_of_the_Siren/

Just like last year, Project Hospital is taking part in SimFest 2023 which will run until 24th of July. It is a huge event which is celebrating many games from the simulation genre. You can buy Project Hospital for just 50% of its price and any DLC with a 20% discount. Also make sure to check all the other great simulation games which are participating in the Steam event with us! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/14f88a0fc4f402f514d354e639c8b144ae5c2053.png

Hello everyone! With the year 2022 almost at the end, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Holiday and a Happy New Year. We know it was a difficult year for many of you and new challenges didn’t miss our studio as well. But in the end we are excited about what awaits us in 2023. Even though active development of Project Hospital has ended and no more DLC is planned, we continue to support the game. We added Steam Deck support so you can play the game everywhere. With new patches we tried to improve the game with recent patch 40 being the last one of this year. Our biggest event though was the announcement of Silence of the Siren, a sci-fi turn-based strategy game. For us it is an opportunity to try something new and we hope many of you will join Early Access which we plan to release next year. The team will now need to recharge a little bit and will be taking a holiday until January 2nd, which means we might not be available on our social channels. If you encounter any issues, don’t hesitate to ask our amazing community on the Steam forum, if they can’t help, we should be able to get back to you at the beginning of January. We hope the start of your Holiday will be more enjoyable with the Steam Winter Sale where Project Hospital will be available with a 50% discount and 20% discount for all DLCs. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/df9553955801d6314f6e61abe9fb80ee9b47649a.jpg

Hi everybody, after a few weeks on a Steam beta branch, the next minor patch for Project Hospital with the usual set of bugfixes and UI improvements is now officially out. Enjoy!

Changes

- Closed departments in management mode are rendered with desaturated colors, not completely grayed out - Switched icon in the patients table for patients waiting for an ambulance from 'a waiting patient' to 'an ambulance' - Updated Italian localization with fixes from Mario Raffa

Fixes

- Fixed janitors without matching specialization allowed to be assigned to a gift shop or a management office - Hotfixed a rare case of a patient stuck in the pharmacy because of a deleted pharmacist - Set patients to be only aware of their 'visible' collapse symptoms, so an interview doesn't uncover any new collapse symptom that should be found using special examinations - Fixed patients with iron deficiency anemia stuck when sent to ICU because of its treatment only available at emergency - Fixed zooming in using a keyboard shortcut instead of the mouse or a button on the main panel not progressing the "zoom in step" in tutorial 1 - Fixed a couple of symptoms showing wrong description text - Fixed a rare case of blocked patients when diagnosing them outside of trauma center in tutorial 3 - Fixed a wrong description shown for the 'stiffness of the joints' symptom {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/d32e9caa7178316463d7f7aeb5ee39c9408045a6.png

We're happy to announce that patch 40 for Project Hospital is almost ready to be released - if you'd like to help us with the last round of testing, you can switch to beta-patch-40-test in Properties in your Steam library. The release notes are listed below and as you'd expect at this stage, we're mostly looking at smaller bug fixes and improvements as we haven't been receiving too many reports especially in the second half of the year. Here's the beta branch that you can switch to in properties on Steam: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/37275a8aa2f9cf70f6e634c2e35f7b37e24ec790.png

Project Hospital 1.2.22846 - Patch 40

Changes

- Closed departments in management mode are rendered with desaturated colors, not completely grayed out - Switched icon in the patients table for patients waiting for an ambulance from 'a waiting patient' to 'an ambulance' - Updated Italian localization with fixes from Mario Raffa

Fixes

- Fixed janitors without matching specialization allowed to be assigned to gift shop or management office - Hotfixed a case of a patient stuck in the pharmacy because of a deleted pharmacist - Set patients to be only aware of their 'visible' collapse symptoms, so an interview doesn't uncover any new collapse symptom that should be found using special examinations - Fixed patients with iron deficiency anemia stuck when sent to ICU because of its treatment only available at emergency - Fixed a couple of symptoms showing wrong description text - Fixed a rare case of blocked patients when diagnosing them outside of trauma center in tutorial 3 - Fixed a wrong description shown for the 'stiffness of the joints' symptom

Hi everybody, after a few weeks both internal and open beta branch testing patch 39 is officially released. Thanks to everybody who tried it early! Amongst the usual batch of fixes and improvements, patch 39 brings official support for the Steam Deck. It is also worth mentioning some welcome fixes of community translations, and a couple of new shortcuts.

Steam Deck

- Added support and control scheme for running on the Steam Deck - Implemented automatic opening of virtual keyboard for all text inputs - Updated save dialog layout so that virtual keyboard doesn't overlap save name - Tweaked automatic UI scale and a few panel positions {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/d5c66490201b757cc8d902411c839e990b83eac8.png

Changes

- Enabled cloud save for individual saves by default (the checkbox in save dialog) - Bigger icons and texts in for example examination and treatment sections of patient card, small version of icons and texts isn't used when playing in 768p or 800p, tweakable TWEAKABLE_UI_PANEL_SEGMENT_SIZE_BEHAVIOR can be used to override the behavior) - Building mode: implemented semi-transparent highlighting of original positions of stretchers and wheelchairs currently in use - Added money spent for creating employees in character editor to the 'other' category in budget - Set janitor level in character editor to be always 2 and provide a specialization - Updated FR localization, fixed the same name used for both HDU and ICU. Fixes by Dim., dim-2022 on Steam - Updated NL localization with fixes from Pieter van Dieren - New keyboard shortcuts: implemented switching game modes with tab, opening menu with F10, M for management card, O and P cycle through departments - Implemented closing of text dialogs like naming characters by pressing ESC {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/2045e8fc5ab5fd63a7d9e4188f6e911cb62463bc.png

Fixes

- Improved a few English texts - Fixed numbing ointment not available at ICU where it can cause patients to be stuck if sent to ICU by hand - Fixed patients not always correctly selecting pharmacy after being released from hospitalization and when they were still remembering previous waiting room - Updated flu season event's English text, fixed one world event text in Russian translation (fix from zodiac a on the forum) - Fixed outdoor prefabs incorrectly reporting they will cost extra for foundations - Fixed status bar text stating not enough funds even in free building mode, fixed room size requirement not shown when placing rooms - Fixed foundations tool allowed on the roof where the results would get overwritten by any updates on the floor below, updated highlighting to red - Fixed roof graphics not updated when switching floors and after making changes to foundations on the floor below - Fixed bookmarked character portrait scale on main panel when playing in different resolution than 1920x1080 - Fixed activating menu via menu icon while moving objects in building mode causing the objects to be lost - Fixed pressing Ctrl+Z showing text on the main panel even outside of building mode

Hi everybody, As we announced a couple of days ago, we're mostly ready to release the next update of Project Hospital which brings official support for the Steam Deck and the usual delivery of fixes and improvements including some welcome fixes of community translations. As this has really helped with the last few releases, we're once again making the version available early on a beta branch so the community and especially modders can try it out and check that everything works on their side. The release notes are listed below, the beta branch you can switch to in Properties in your library is beta-patch-39-test. Let us know if you find any issues and we're very interested to hear any feedback about the controls on the Deck when any of you receive yours - we'll create a pinned thread in the discussions on the community page for that.

Project Hospital 1.2.22641 - Patch 39

Steam Deck

- Added support and control scheme for running on the Steam Deck - Implemented automatic opening of virtual keyboard for all text inputs - Updated save dialog layout so that virtual keyboard doesn't overlap save name - Tweaked automatic UI scale and a few panel positions {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/d5c66490201b757cc8d902411c839e990b83eac8.png

Changes

- Enabled cloud save for individual saves by default (the checkbox in save dialog) - Bigger icons and texts in for example examination and treatment sections of patient card, small version of icons and texts isn't used when playing in 768p or 800p, tweakable TWEAKABLE_UI_PANEL_SEGMENT_SIZE_BEHAVIOR can be used to override the behavior) - Building mode: implemented semi-transparent highlighting of original positions of stretchers and wheelchairs currently in use - Added money spent for creating employees in character editor to the 'other' category in budget - Set janitor level in character editor to be always 2 and provide a specialization - Updated FR localization, fixed the same name used for both HDU and ICU. Fixes by Dim., dim-2022 on Steam - Updated NL localization with fixes from Pieter van Dieren - New keyboard shortcuts: implemented switching game modes with tab, opening menu with F10, M for management card, O and P cycle through departments - Implemented closing of text dialogs like naming characters by pressing ESC {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/2045e8fc5ab5fd63a7d9e4188f6e911cb62463bc.png

Fixes

- Improved a few English texts - Fixed numbing ointment not available at ICU where it can cause patients to be stuck if sent to ICU by hand - Fixed patients not always correctly selecting pharmacy after being released from hospitalization and when they were still remembering previous waiting room - Updated flu season event's English text, fixed one world event text in Russian translation (fix from zodiac a on the forum) - Fixed outdoor prefabs incorrectly reporting they will cost extra for foundations - Fixed status bar text stating not enough funds even in free building mode, fixed room size requirement not shown when placing rooms - Fixed foundations tool allowed on the roof where the results would get overwritten by any updates on the floor below, updated highlighting to red - Fixed roof graphics not updated when switching floors and after making changes to foundations on the floor below - Fixed bookmarked character portrait scale on main panel when playing in different resolution than 1920x1080 - Fixed activating menu via menu icon while moving objects in building mode causing the objects to be lost - Fixed pressing Ctrl+Z showing text on the main panel even outside of building mode

Hi everybody, we have some quite exciting news: after a bit of testing we're pleasantly surprised by how well Project Hospital works on the Steam Deck! As you may know, we never planned a console version because of both controls and performance, but the touchpad on the Deck really makes this possible. We're finishing a version with controls mapped to the Deck's input, properly using the virtual keyboard and including some small tweaks, we plan to make it available for you with the next patch later this week and hopefully we'll get the game verified by Valve soon. In the meantime we'd love to hear your opinions: Do any of you plan to get the Steam Deck or have already preordered it? What are your experiences playing games with a controller using a virtual cursor? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/98d4807035a8d650e5689cbd8c2640b337ec3be4.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/d5c66490201b757cc8d902411c839e990b83eac8.png

Hi everybody, Once again, the holidays are approaching and we're finding ourselves looking back at the months that have just flown by. 2021 has been another challenging year for everybody, including us at Oxymoron Games, but at the same time a great year for Project Hospital, with so many players joining the community, while the game received a few more patches and more content arrived to the Steam Workshop. The team will now be taking a couple of weeks off, trying to find a bit of peace and quiet and spending time with our loved ones, so if you reach out on the different channels, we'll be mostly able to get back to you on January 3rd. And as usually this time of the year, when this message goes live, the Winter Sale should be on the way and Project Hospital will be joining with a 50% discount. So, everybody who is reading this, have a great holiday and a safe and successful start to the New Year 2022! We're looking forward to seeing you on the forums and hopefully some time next year we'll be able to start sharing more about what's next to come from Oxymoron Games! Cheers, The Oxymoron Games team

Hi everybody, we're happy to make this little announcement before the Holidays: the next patch for Project Hospital is now live! Thanks to everybody who tried it on the beta branch early, we're glad we managed to fix “that one little hiccup” before releasing the update officially! We've also updated the Thai build (on thai-language-support branch) to patch 38 and added a Mac OSX version as requested! We hope you'll enjoy the little improvements, fixes and the new mix of the main music theme!

Changes

- ♫ Switched main menu music to a recently remastered version ♫ - Implemented automatic switching from bold to normal texts if running on a Mac to work around issues with fonts present since Catalina - Allowed janitors to come to work to clean very dirty tiles outside of departments even if their department is spotless - Set cash value texts on main panel and in budget panel to use thousand separators ($1 000 instead of $1000), enabled automatic text scale for balance text on main panel - Allowed decals to be placed on outdoor walls on above-the-ground-floors - Added a tweakable that can be used to override the default strict save file name checks (TWEAKABLE_SKIP_STRICT_FILENAME_CHECK in TweakablesPatch38.xml) - Added a button for cancelling level and event scripts to debug tools, this allows to for example continue playing a campaign level after finishing it

Fixes

- Fixed examinations that require patient to talk to be sometimes incorrectly planned after selecting a diagnosis - Fixed broken attachments unnecessarily preventing composite objects from being deleted - Fixed patients stuck at the reception if all receptionists have been sent to training - Fixed 'check save' mechanism for modded games only working in main menu, not when loading from the pause menu - Fixed ambulance ignoring its own stretchers if the area underneath is marked staff only - Fixed patients stuck as bookmarked when released from autopsy table - Fixed wall mounted lamp blocking access to objects on the tile opposite to the wall where it's mounted - Fixed shortest path distance (instead of shortest geometric distance) not used in object queries used for employees needs so they wouldn't always use objects in their own room - Fixed outdated screenshot in loading tip showing how to access staff and patient tables - Hotfixed janitors at home sometimes still reserving operating rooms - Hotfixed second running lab procedure causing controlled patients getting stuck at the doctor's, now it gets automatically completed one hour after the test itself finished - Hotfixed an error in X-Ray script caused by a missing X-Ray machine in procedure scene - Improved a few English texts - Fixed a rare progression blocker in tutorial 3 triggered by sending the patient to CT and selecting a diagnosis while the patient was out of the Trauma Center

We are mostly done with testing the next patch for Project Hospital, so we're on a good track to release it before the holidays. Just like with the last patch, we've put it on a beta branch for those of you who would like to try it out early and help us catch any possible rare issues or problems with mod compatibility. The release notes are included below, as you'd expect at this later development stage, it's mostly smaller or very specific bug fixes, improvements and tools. Here's the beta branch that you can switch to in properties on Steam: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/5e3af2ee51adb7275e7ff3dab55bb2c7c7895185.png

Project Hospital 1.2.22496 - Patch 38

Changes

- Implemented automatic switching from bold to normal texts if running on a Mac to work around issues with fonts present since Catalina - Allowed janitors to come to work to clean very dirty tiles outside of departments even if their department is spotless - Set cash value texts on main panel and in budget panel to use thousand separators ($1 000 instead of $1000), enabled automatic text scale for balance text on main panel - Added a tweakable that can be used to override the default strict save file name checks (TWEAKABLE_SKIP_STRICT_FILENAME_CHECK in TweakablesPatch38.xml) - Added a button for cancelling level and event scripts to debug tools, this allows to for example continue playing a campaign level after finishing it

Fixes

- Fixed examinations that require patient to talk to be sometimes incorrectly planned after selecting a diagnosis - Fixed broken attachments unnecessarily preventing composite objects from being deleted - Fixed patients stuck at the reception if all receptionists have been sent to training - Fixed 'check save' mechanism for modded games only working in main menu, not when loading from the pause menu - Fixed ambulance ignoring its own stretchers if the area underneath is marked staff only - Fixed patients stuck as bookmarked when released from autopsy table - Fixed wall mounted lamp blocking access to objects on the tile opposite to the wall where it's mounted - Fixed shortest path distance (instead of shortest geometric distance) not used in object queries used for employees needs so they wouldn't always use objects in their own room - Hotfixed janitors at home sometimes still reserving operating rooms - Hotfixed second running lab procedure causing controlled patients getting stuck at the doctor's, now it gets automatically completed one hour after the test itself finished - Hotfixed an error in X-Ray script caused by a missing X-Ray machine in procedure scene - Improved a couple of English texts - Fixed a rare progression blocker in tutorial 3 triggered by sending the patient to CT and selecting a diagnosis while the patient was out of the Trauma Center

Hi everybody, we're happy to announce another addition to the list of community translations: Thai language is now available in Project Hospital! We're very happy to see all the Thai players that joined the community recently and while it wasn't straightforward to get the translation working in game as the systems weren't built in a way that supports switching fonts, we now have a special Windows version of the game available for you to try. To switch to it: If you go to Properties -> BETAS, select "thai-laguage-support". The Thai language should then be available in options in game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/54ec75647e8d77a305ef329c34f82d212030f8b4.png Once again big thanks to the translators for their effort and especially for figuring out a way to get the fonts working.

Hi everybody, the next patch for Project Hospital is now officially live! We hope you'll enjoy the quality of life improvements, bugfixes and a couple of improved translations from wonderful community members. :) Thanks to everybody who tried the new version on a beta branch, we're glad no issues popped up there! There's also one more fix that's worth mentioning but isn't part of the patch itself: an issue with cloud saves not updating correctly on certain machines should be now resolved. It turns out the problem wasn't in game code but in our configuration of cloud saves on Steam side.

Changes

- Optimized texture usage of system RAM, this should help improve performance on machines with minimum specs - Added missing localized texts for the 'no assistant surgeon' notification - Improved a couple of texts in tutorials or tooltips - Updated Italian community translations with a new version by neoxes - Updated Traditional Chinese translations with a new version by Alex Chen - Set input text of save game name in the save dialog to be active when the dialog opens - Added more info to log about the steam integration startup (to help troubleshoot issues with cloud saves) - Updated UI scale sliders in options to show default scale value when automatic UI scale is enabled

Fixes

- Hotfixed broken room data blocking the save process, this could eliminate a rare error where half of a save file would be missing - Fixed corrupted save zip files (especially if it was the latest save) causing missing files in the load dialog - Fixed insurance condition 'finish events of type' resetting counters for all types when there are multiple conditions checking multiple events active - Fixed 'black floor' set up with same pathfinding cost as road so people were avoiding it and taking longer paths - Fixed bacteremia (a symptom that requires hospitalization) present in campylobacteriosis which is marked for clinic - Fixed double fever in hemolytic uremic syndrome - Fixed Bartonella Henselae showing wrong description in its tooltip - Fixed player-assigned doctors reset when the player changes a patient's doctor while the patient is already walking to a doctor's office and then returns to a waiting room - Fixed diagnosis tooltip showing wrong insurance payment value without prestige and world event modifiers counted in - Fixed patients allowed to use outdoors/planned only waiting rooms - Fixed a rare case of employees with invalid room at their workspace stuck at home - Fixed broken ambulance parking in one of the campaign levels - Fixed a hotfix detecting abandoned stretchers causing also stretchers waiting with a patient next to an ambulance to disappear after load - Fixed patients waiting for ambulance for a very long time popping up the 'clinic patient is about to leave' message - Fixed one specific case of a paramedic stuck next to their ambulance because of a deleted stretcher - Fixed queue machines reporting 0 patients in management mode for waiting rooms at radiology - Fixed a white line sometimes blinking around the bottom side of popup panel in low resolutions

Hi everybody, The next major patch with the usual round of fixes and improvements is now ready and while we're doing an extra round of testing, we thought why not make it available to those of you that would like to try it straight away. After the issues we encountered with the last patch launch we're trying to be extra careful so any help with testing would be welcome, especially from members of the modding community so we catch any possible compatibility issues (although we're not expecting any problems with mods). Here's the beta branch that you can switch to in properties on Steam: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/07536f0e8a9e7b3b3fbb24c4ba0f4c753af8790b.png Thanks in advance and have fun! :)

Project Hospital 1.2.22340 - Patch 37

Changes

- Optimized texture usage of system RAM, this should help improve performance on machines with minimum specs - Added missing localized texts for the 'no assistant surgeon' notification - Improved a couple of texts in tutorials or tooltips - Updated Italian community translations - Set input text of save game name in the save dialog to be active when the dialog opens - Added more info to log about the steam integration startup (to help troubleshoot issues with cloud saves) - Updated UI scale sliders in options to show default scale value when automatic UI scale is enabled

Fixes

- Hotfixed broken room data blocking the save process, this could eliminate a rare error where half of a save file would be missing - Fixed corrupted save zip files (especially if it was the latest save) causing missing files in the load dialog - Fixed insurance condition 'finish events of type' resetting counters for all types when there are multiple conditions checking multiple events active - Fixed 'black floor' set up with same pathfinding cost as road so people were avoiding it and taking longer paths - Fixed bacteremia (a symptom that requires hospitalization) present in campylobacteriosis which is marked for clinic - Fixed double fever in hemolytic uremic syndrome - Fixed Bartonella Henselae showing wrong description in its tooltip - Fixed player-assigned doctors reset when the player changes a patient's doctor while the patient is already walking to a doctor's office and then returns to a waiting room - Fixed diagnosis tooltip showing wrong insurance payment value without prestige and world event modifiers counted in - Fixed patients allowed to use outdoors/planned only waiting rooms - Fixed a rare case of employees with invalid room at their workspace stuck at home - Fixed broken ambulance parking in one of the campaign levels - Fixed a hotfix detecting abandoned stretchers causing also stretchers waiting with a patient next to an ambulance to disappear after load - Fixed patients waiting for ambulance for a very long time popping up the 'clinic patient is about to leave' message - Fixed one specific case of a paramedic stuck next to their ambulance because of a deleted stretcher - Fixed queue machines reporting 0 patients in management mode for waiting rooms at radiology

Complete retagging of the Project Hospital Steam workshop is finished! Departments, decorations, equipment, gameplay tweaks, and scenarios now clearly organized. More than 300 items ready to refine your gaming experience. Explore Project Hospital workshop now!

Hi guys, today we would like to share something a bit different - a video mapping the whole development process of Project Hospital! Jan (one of the two team members who started developing Project Hospital in 2016) has been working on this for quite a while and it's finally ready. Let's have a look at the four-years-long journey from a humble concept to a finished game with 4 DLCs and a worldwide player community, all packed in five minutes on screen. It has been quite a ride and we are most grateful you rode with us!

Hi, you've probably noticed that we rolled the game back to the previous version soon after the release patch 36. After quite a busy week of investigating the issues and extra testing after fixing the root cause, our fingers are crossed for today's re-release. We'd also like to thank everybody who sent us their saves, it really helped us figure out what exactly went wrong and verify that everything works reliably in a much wider selection of hospitals than our usual test levels. We hope you'll enjoy the improvements that come in this version! Original release notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/868360/view/3014568991981558677

Hello, a new patch 36 was just released. Amongst a fair portion of fixes, it brings improved pathfinding related to limited access areas and tuned examination.

Changes

- Improved pathfinding in the case of areas with different access rights and paths partially blocked by objects - Allowed patients that need to go to a toilet to take urine sample to use biohazard toilets after waiting for a while for a standard toilet to become available

Fixes

- Fixed a few rare symptoms that weren't discoverable by any examination other than interview and which shy patients wouldn't mention - Fixed a few symptoms that could lead to a collapse not correctly marked as critical - Fixed cold compression wraps not available at cardiology and neurology, updated tooltips - Fixed rooms on the roof impossible to delete after adding a new floor - Fixed a couple of untranslated texts in Brazilian Portuguese in the third tutorial level - Fixed helicopter broken after landing on a helipad marked as staff only - Hotfixed one case of patients stuck on stretchers when being taken away - Hotfixed a case of overlapping stretchers spawned next to an ambulance, tanking performance - Hotfixed a case of black ambulance stuck on trying to take away an already deleted patient

Hi, we've just released a new patch with a few fixes, mostly trying to fix the mysterious issue with headless patients that has recently started to pop up quite frequently.

Changes

- Reduced spacing between ambulances in ambulance panel in management window so it fits on screen more easily

Fixes

- Hotfixed a couple of cases of headless patients (beds with wrong graphics after a patient has left them) - Fixed patients with a planned surgery and a clear but not yet selected diagnosis not showing up in surgery table - Fixed janitors sometimes stuck still referencing a deleted cart - Fixed ground textures not updated after undo - Fixed cbc not allowed in inpatient office at traumatology - Fixed missing temperature measurement in kidney stones diagnosis - Fixed tooltip for pancreas laceration showing wrong text

Hi everybody, With only a couple of days left until holidays, let us once again take the opportunity to have a quick look at the year behind us. It has definitely been a 'proper 2020' for us as well, but apart from the time spent in lockdown and sometimes struggling with work from home, there have been some highlights too, including two development babies :). We managed to keep working on the game and your continuous support allowed us to add a lot of new content and features in updates and the three DLCs released this year, so this is also a humble thank you to everybody who bought any of the expansions, contributed to mods or translations, supported other players or helped us catch remaining issues in the game. The team will be now taking a couple of weeks off after a very demanding season, so we'll be only able to reply on the different channels occasionally and we'll be mostly able to get back to you on January 4th. And last but not least, enjoy the Winter Sale, Project Hospital will be available with a 50% discount for the duration of the sale. :) Have a good one! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32869311/12603397c3cfd14c96c44098729817ce4f4f1111.png

For everyone who wants to jump straight to the hustle and bustle of a fully staffed hospital, we added an optimized version of one of the big hospitals, with all departments and employees already prepared for your guidance. And for those who want to carefully select every member of their team, there is another fully optimized hospital with all departments and equipment, ready to be staffed. Note: Both scenarios require all DLCs that introduce new departments (Hospital Services, Traumatology, Infectious Diseases). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2324955475 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2324957538