Galacticare

Galacticare

Released May 2024

Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.

86% positive · 648 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

Where to buy

Prices in USD, as listed by each store.
Buying through an affiliate store helps support the site

Evaluation

Galacticare launched on May 23, 2024 and received two post-launch content updates: Challenge Mode (a free DLC, September 12, 2024) and The Voice Beyond (a paid narrative expansion, April 2, 2025). On September 28, 2025, Brightrock Games published a studio update announcing their next game, Kaiju Cleanup, and explicitly addressed Galacticare's future: "we don't currently have any paid DLC in the works but there are a few smaller updates and bits of content in the pipes." While the phrase "smaller updates and bits of content" leaves a small door open for minor additions, the developer drew a clear distinction between the paid DLC cycle — which they confirmed has ended — and routine maintenance. All three DLC items in the store listing are released, and no unreleased DLC has been announced. The studio's focus has demonstrably shifted to Kaiju Cleanup. The last meaningful content for Galacticare shipped on April 2, 2025 with The Voice Beyond expansion, and the developer has signaled the paid content chapter is closed.
Evidence
Brightrock Games explicitly states 'we don't currently have any paid DLC in the works' for Galacticare, while announcing their next game Kaiju Cleanup. They describe Galacticare's future as limited to 'smaller updates and bits of content in the pipes.'
news post · Sep 28, 2025 source development ending
high
The Voice Beyond — a major paid narrative DLC with three fully voiced campaign levels, new diseases, new consultant, and new mechanics — launched as the most substantial post-launch content addition for the game.
news post · Apr 2, 2025 source content shipped
high

Content

3 of 3 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Mythwright
Achievements
68
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

You are the Director of Galacticare; manage your own interstellar healthcare company and (try to) save the Galaxy - just make sure to get paid first!

  • Design, furnish, and upgrade your hospital.

  • Hire doctors with distinct traits and backgrounds.

  • Keep everyone relatively content by satisfying their various needs.

  • Build and improve experimental treatment facilities.

  • Meet and recruit a variety of unique Consultants (DJs, monks, you name it!)

  • Explore their mechanics, levelling choices, and personalities.

  • Consultants stay and grow throughout the campaign, unlocking new skills and playstyle options as you progress.

  • Discover, research, and cure alien conditions.

  • Treat patients of all shapes and sizes: from puppy-sized lemurs to entire planets.

  • Provide healthcare for musical festivals, deep-space prisons, communal space farms, and industrial disasters; or go wild in sandbox mode.

  • Develop your relationship with each species, earning rewards from their respective cultures.

  • Use holographic doctors, short-range teleporters and subspace portals to micromanage your hospital’s performance.

  • Upgrade rooms, read the thoughts of everyone aboard your station and purchase equipment from a colossal wandering trader.

  • Raise your Hospital Rating - the only goal that truly matters.

Galacticare takes you on a colourful and bizarre journey - from humble beginnings orbiting 23rd-century Earth, to the internal world of an extra-dimensional deity.

It’s time to save the galaxy - one patient at a time!

DISCLAIMER: Galacticare contains some mature references, innuendo and at times dark humour.

Galacticare is brought to you by Brightrock Games, the team behind War for the Overworld. We’re an independent and passionate team of developers making the games we’ve always wanted to play. Inspired by the classics of the golden age of management games, and hungry to push that genre’s character and complexity forward, we hope Galacticare will appeal to the players who care about these games as much as we do.

Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
Something about this evaluation looks wrong Report illegal or harmful content