Update: 21/07/18 - The new build is now officialy out!

Need something to keep you going while you wait for Two Point Hospital? CorsixTH [GitHub, Official Site] allows you to play Theme Hospital on Linux with a modern game engine.

Their last proper update was in December last year which is quite a while ago, so when checking on it again last night I was pleased to see that they're going through the release candidate stages for their next update.

Currently on 0.62 RC 2, here's what's in it:

New Features

Player salary is now preserved between campaign levels

Mouse capture is now shown on in game options screen

Completely out of source builds are now supported on all platforms

FHS style file layout (separate bin and share/corsixth directories) support for Linux (and non-Apple Unixes)

On Linux (and other non-Apple Unixes) the CorsixTH executable is now called corsix-th

LuaJIT 2.x is now supported, if using LuaJIT 1.x JIT is no longer enabled

Meandering staff behaviour has been tweaked to look more natural

Bug Fixes

Hoppalong map in the included campaign was fixed to not crash

Correctly handle the death of emergency patients

VIP and other game event scheduling fixes

VIP now works correctly when the hospital has no functional rooms

Heat now spreads out from radiators in all directions again

Fix for game error that caused the same litter to be cleaned up twice, and resulted in a crash

Fix moving machines with no state

All known memory leaks caused by our code have been fixed

Many text and formatting improvements across languages

It does require the original data, which you can easily grab since the game itself is available on GOG. Once you have it, head to this page for instructions on setting it up.

They could likely use more developers, so do let them know if you can help.