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Press release:
Lesquin, 13 February 2024.
The Lesquin-based (France) video games company NACON and Warsaw-based (Poland) indie games developer Brave Lamb, are today super excited and happy to announce that they have just released the “X-Ray” DLC for their W1-themed strategy game “War Hospital” (the said DLC is available right now for PC, PS5/PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One).

Thanks to this new content the game now provides an opportunity to help the famous Marie Curie repair her medical equipment, while remaining in charge of a WW1 field hospital.

Placing the emphasis on narration, War Hospital’s X-Ray DLC offers players an additional chapter equivalent to 5 hours’ gameplay, featuring another aspect of running the field hospital. In the story dreamt up by the Polish studio Brave Lamb, they must help Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie) procure the resources she needs to repair her “Petite Curie”, one of the mobile surgical units that she invented. She instigated widespread use of X-raying techniques, by taking her equipment right out to the battlefields.

“We decided to include Maria Skłodowska in the game’s plot, since it reflects the essence of War Hospital, which is all about saving human lives. We are also proud to be able to include a Polish accent in our game. During World War One, our country was not even on the map, so at the time it unfortunately could not enjoy the prestige associated with this phenomenon,” noted Michał Dziwniel, Director of Brave Lamb studio.

War Hospital can boast the following features:

A documented game, particularly thanks to its partnership with London’s Imperial War Museum.
A perfect balance between real-time strategy and survival game
Simultaneous management of a host of resources of varied usefulness
Choices with short and long-term consequences
A morale system affecting the behaviour of the medical teams
Individual stories with complex implications
Humanised units, varied in their workings and impacts
Multiple distinct end scenarios
A system of trenches desperate for recovered soldiers to face the enemy
Playable both with keyboard/mouse and controller
An X-Ray DLC featuring Marie Curie

About War Hospital:
Halfway between the real-time strategy and survival genres, War Hospital is a management game unique in its kind, where the player must make tough moral choices as they progress. The gameplay involves managing a WW1 field hospital, but also the treatment and recovery of soldiers injured in battle. Playing as Major Henry Wells, they will be responsible for running a British field hospital in a fictitious town in Northern France. Playable in solo mode only, War Hospital and its Marie Curie DLC have been out since 11 January 2024 on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.

About NACON:
NACON is a company of the BIGBEN Group founded in 2019 to optimize its know-how through strong synergies in the video game market. By bringing together its 16 development studios, the publishing of AA video games, the design and distribution of premium gaming devices, NACON focuses 30 years of expertise at the service of players. This new unified business unit strengthens NACON’s position in the market and enables it to innovate by creating new unique competitive advantages. https://corporate.nacongaming.com/

About Brave Lamb:
Brave Lamb is a Polish development studio specializing in premium independent video games based on thought-provoking stories that ask players to make difficult ethical choices. The team currently comprises 30 experienced professionals who have come from a variety of companies such as Techland, Flying Wild Hog and CI Games.