Review: TWO POINT CAMPUS is a Spectacular Management Game

This week, SEGA and Two Point Studios Limited launched Two Point Campus. This is the second title from Two Point and is available now on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S (affiliate link). You can purchase digital copies through the appropriate storefront or physical copies are available through your favorite gaming retailers including GameStop (affiliate link). It’s also available day one on Xbox Game Pass. The team was kind enough to provide me with a PC code to review the game, but all the thoughts below are my own.

You can throw your own parties in Two Point Campus™, complete with laser lights, over-flowing red cups, and some killer tunes, it’s sure to keep your students happy – or at least distracted. And if a typical student shindig isn’t enough, as administrator of your very own campus, you have the power to schedule live gigs from definitely 100% real bands like Helium Baboon, Alchemical Friendship, or Boogie Knights. So, build yourself a Student Union and get the party started, and yes, the floor is supposed to be sticky.

Maybe you want to take things a little slower? Hopefully not too slow since the local Speed-Walking Club is looking for new recruits. Clubs are the perfect way to avoid thinking about your studies, whether it’s powerwalking around campus, scoring some mid-lecture Zs with the Power-Napping Club, or taking up gardening in the Nature Club. Feel the earth beneath your feet, the sun on your face and the wind… wherever it is you feel that.

Two Point Campus is a charming university management simulator that lets you live out your dreams of running your very own campus environment – complete with wild and wacky courses like spell-casting wizardry, dragon-slaying knight school, or top-secret spy school.

In Two Point Campus, you are tasked with creating themed colleges and making sure that the students enjoy their time at your school and succeed in the academics. You get to pick which courses are taught, hire the staff, create the layouts of the different rooms, and more. If you enjoy games like The Sims and RollerCoaster Tycoon, it’s the same principle. I personally enjoy that quite a bit and a nice aspect of Two Point Campus is that it has a star system to help give you goals to work towards. A lot of similar games are much more self-motivated which is a struggle for me personally. I like the various goals that the game gives you because it helps me return so that I can tackle that star or fun objective.

The sound design for Two Point Campus is really good. The background music is very calming and easily lets you get lost in the game. It’s also not really integral which means you’re not really missing out if you want to mute the game’s music and play your favorite tracks via Spotify, YouTube, etc. The voices that you hear throughout the game are also well done and the character who speaks over the loudspeaker has some great lines such as, “Remember, plagiarism is not a belief system.”

In terms of visuals, the game doesn’t require a lot of power. I ran Two Point Campus on a laptop that has an integrated Intel Iris GPU just fine on the lowest settings. In fact, one of the great things about the stylized looks utilized in the game is that when you turn the game to Very Low, it doesn’t look bad at all. There are a few things that don’t look as round like some of the trees, but I never felt like it detracted from the game. I also ran it on max settings on my desktop which has an RTX 2060 Super and like I said, the game is stylized in such a way where I knew that it was running smoother and better on my desktop, but it wasn’t distracting to play on my laptop.

One of the fun aspects of Two Point Campus is how fun the colleges themselves are. You start off building basically a small technical school and then eventually make it through a culinary school, a knight school, a magic school, an arts school, a spy school, and much more. I didn’t get to all of them, but they’re all a lot of fun. I also appreciate how some of them bring in new gameplay elements like invading knights in Noblestead (the knight school). You have to make sure that you have security guards to take care of the troublemakers.

While I absolutely love Two Point Campus, there are a few things that I wish it did a little better. For starters, the tutorial does a good job of giving you a general idea of how to play the game, but I felt like I could’ve used more help with some of what I consider the more technical aspects of the game. This includes items like the Attractiveness of your campus. There are items that say they improve the Attractiveness of your campus, but nothing about how they improve it. Does the flower bed give more points than that tree? Are all items equal? Do I want to diversify? There’s no real guide in the tutorials for that.

All in all though I really like Two Point Campus. It’s a lot of fun and doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s a light game that’s great for everyone and thanks to its design you don’t need a gaming beast to run it. It’s fun, has some good humor, and is easily accessible. If you’ve ever enjoyed these management games, definitely give it a go. I may even have to go back and pick up Two Point Hospital now.