Theme Hospital open source game engine CorsixTH has a nice Beta release out with v0.69 now in testing for this classic.
If you love the classic, you need CorsixTH to make the best of it, as it comes with various enhancements to make playing it on modern machines a breeze. You can fully complete the original campaign with it and it includes support for custom levels and campaign, higher resolutions, zooming, unlimited saves, improved game logic, hotkeys and much more.
Pictured - CorsixTH on Linux
What's new and improved for this release:
New Features/Enhancements
- A new machine menu has been added. Now you can view the status of all your
hospital machines in one place!- Changing speed in game now happens immediately
- Patient happiness can now be a win/lose factor in custom games
- Transparent walls can now be toggled using Shift + X
- Soda price can now be configured in the level file
- Improvements and fixes for the ChirzmanTV custom campaign
Changes
- Improved how staff look for work if idle
- Machine strength reduction after repair now more closely aligned with the
original game- Machine strength now has a minimum value of 2 after repair
- Mouse is now only captured when in game, or using the map editor
- Improved measurement on the progress report chart columns
- Annual rewards and trophies now have more robust evaluation criteria
- A patient's treatment cost is now decided at the point they agree to pay
- VIPs now walk slower, as in the original game
- Gamelogs now include the date and time of the crash in their file name, and
the last 10 logs are now held in the Logs folder- Finding files for custom campaigns is now more reliable, and supports storing
your campaign inside its own folder- Custom Campaigns can no longer be played in Free Build mode, as they could
break campaign progression- For games compiled using fluidsynth (such as our Windows and Flatpak builds),
you can now set the soundfont in the configuration file- Video files can now be missing during TH installation corruption checks
You need the original game files for it, you can buy Theme Hospital on GOG.
Then just run the AppImage from the CorsixTH downloads on GitHub, and point it to where you've installed Theme Hospital.