Two Level Museum, the most recent enterprise sim from Two Level Studios, is an engrossing museum administration recreation that retains you hooked with fixed rewards. The very act of sending out an archeological crew to amass extra displays nets you a (completely free) loot field of historical antiquities. Exhibit-buffing gems and extra themed decorations will be unlocked by researching the duplicates you discover.
You’ll even be assigned quests in your path to rating up your museums, and every of those can have a number of targets. Early on, these assignments nudge you to be taught new recreation mechanics or concentrate on small enhancements to your visitor expertise. These requests and your museums will be fairly fantastical: one museum was positioned in a haunted mansion with precise ghosts I wanted to wrangle and my house museum required fastidiously arranging alien artifacts as a way to activate their secrets and techniques. However on my path to a five-star museum, the trickiest problem I confronted was determining find out how to pay my workers sufficient.
The precise goal was to achieve “75% pay satisfaction” for all my workers, a stat I admittedly hadn’t been listening to. I definitely had workers often complain about their pay and threaten to go away, and a fast elevate took care of that drawback. However attaining this for my complete workers? The place would I discover the cash!?
As colourful and foolish as Two Level Museum can seem, it’s nonetheless a enterprise sim at coronary heart, and this problem compelled me to suppose that means… in my workers’ greatest pursuits! My museum ran on a shoestring finances cobbled collectively from grants, donations, and present store gross sales, so I wanted to consider rising all of these money streams and add some extra.
First, I took some inspiration from actual museums and redesigned my present store so my company needed to cross by it to achieve the dinosaur wing, rising foot visitors and gross sales. Subsequent, I grabbed a sponsored poster and caught it subsequent to the lavatory — which is to say, I put it in a excessive visitors space the place it wouldn’t detract from my pristine displays. Investigating my museum score, which ties instantly into the grant you obtain month-to-month, I discovered that leveling up my worker expertise would truly enhance my score, and the grant. Coaching my workers did enhance how a lot pay they desired, however the advantages outweighed the added price. It’s nearly as if investing in your workers makes your corporation run higher!
Slowly however certainly, I used to be in a position to elevate my wages, which was straightforward to do within the worker administration window. One button lets me instantly take care of any particular wage complaints by agreeing to a brand new wage, elevating worker pay above the edge the place they’ll grumble about leaving. To go additional, I might proceed to handle every worker’s pay individually, however the recreation additionally has a helpful “1% elevate” button you may jam a pair occasions when your money circulation seems good. (One thing one thing they need to make that button in actual life one thing one thing.)
Whereas it was robust at first, meticulously managing my finances and slowly elevating my common pay, finally my workers’ greater happiness ranges began enhancing my museum instantly. This suggestions loop shortly helped pay for all these raises. Lastly, the mission was full and my museum was extra in style than ever. What a whimsical idea!
