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:

• 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

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!



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!

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!

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!

- 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

- 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

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:




- 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

- 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.

- 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



- 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



- 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.


- 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



- 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



- 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?