Happy Cafe vs Theme Hospital
Happy Cafe
Happy Cafe is a restaurant/cafe management sim that may bring to mind games like Restaurant City (R.I.P.). Unlike traditional cooking-themed sims, this game allows you to actually build your own restaurant from the starter restaurant that you get. Prepare and cook a wide variety of dishes from across countries and cultures, put them up on display counters, and serve them to your respective customers. Like most sims though, you can decorate your place to your liking, expand your cafe, upgrade your kitchen appliances and also, being a rather social game, invite your friends to help you out from time to time. Best yet, the game even has a nice eco garden where you can plant, grow and harvest your very own organic ingredients to be used at your cafe.So, if you're looking for a restaurant/cafe management sim that's more laidback and where its "cooking process" merely includes a waiting time, then Happy Cafe is the game for you. It may not be a time management game, which happens to be an area they are an expert in, but Nordcurrent manages to deliver a wonderful game nonetheless.
Theme Hospital
Theme Hospital is a timeless and fun simulation game where you - obviously - manage a virtual hospital of your own. Turn the failing hospital around and help the sick that came to your hospital for aid as much as you help line your own pockets. As you might expect, the game also has plenty of the hospital drama that you might have seen in TV shows - the rush of a last-minute save or that nasty gossip floating around about the doctor and his nurses; some of which are depicted in the game in a rather humorous way. There are even some really funny diseases and diagnosis in this game.So, do you think you'll be able to make use of what resources you start off with and make your way up the pyramid that is the health care industry? If so, you simply must check out Theme Hospital. It may be an old game - old enough to be classified as an "abandonware" but it's still as golden as ever - The very epitome of what it means to be a hospital simulation game!