Beginner's Guide: Basics and Features

Two Point Campus is a charming, accessible, and deep management sim that allows you to build and create the college of your dreams. Two Point Campus is developed by Two Point Studios and was released on August 9, 2022, on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

This Beginner's Guide covers the basic mechanics and features of Two Point Campus, including the different game modes available, managing campus staff and students, unlocking new courses, obtaining the hard-to-get Kudosh currency, and so much.

Two Point Campus Game Modes

Two Point Campus features two different games: Campaign and Sandbox. Each game mode is presented with its own unique set of challenges and objectives. Here’s what you need to know about the two.

Campaign Mode

During the main campaign, you will encounter 12 different campuses with each bringing its own set of challenges and objectives that you’ll need to complete. Here you’ll need to think smart and build a strategic plan to ensure that your academic institution stands the test of time, as you craft new buildings, select new courses, and hire the best-qualified staff for the job.

Sandbox Mode

Sandbox offers four different game modes that each offer different levels of challenge and game settings. To unlock Sandbox mode, you must first progress through the main campaign until you reach at least one star on the fourth campus, Noblestead. This will allow you to unlock and play all 12 campuses that are available in Two Point Campus.

Here's what you need to know about all four game settings that are available in Sandbox mode:

Standard provides a balanced experience where you can be challenged without sweating.

• Standard Mode Settings:
  • Start with $300,000 and 75 Course Points
  • Standard level of challenge in growing your university.
  • Unlock Items and Upgrades with Kudosh and Research.

Creative provides creative freedom over your campus, without having to worry about boring finances.

• Creative Mode Settings:
  • Start with more Money and Course Points than you can ever hope to spend.
  • Money is easy to make, so you can focus away from your finances.
  • Everything is unlocked.

Challenge is set up to offer players a challenging experience.

• Challenge Mode Settings:
  • Start with just $150,000 and 30 Course Points.
  • Reaching a balanced monthly income can be difficult.
  • Unlock Items and Upgrades with Kudosh and Research.

Custom proves you with your own way to play and allows you to set the challenge you want to meet.

• Custom Mode Settings:
  • Design your own challenge down to every detail, which includes a variety of game-changing modifiers that affect challenges, objectives, building, and even income.

Understanding How Staff Work in Two Point Campus

It’s crucial to your student’s success that you employ the best possible staff to teach your courses and help run your campus. When running a course or constructing facilities such as a Library, Student Union, or food and drink stalls, you’ll need to ensure that you have an adequate number of staff members with relevant skills available.

In addition, you’ll want to ensure that you provide enough Janitors to help keep your campus clean, maintained, and secure. 

When hiring staff, you’ll notice that more often than not, they’ll offer a wide range of varying qualifications and skills, whether this is Library Management, Inspirational Speaking, Aerodynamics, Comic Timing, or something more. While it’s great to hire staff with high skills in a certain area, it’s also important to ensure that you’re putting these skills to use.

So, when opening up a staff member’s character inspector, look for the Job Assignment tab, and be sure to assign them to jobs they are most skilled in. This will ensure that staff members are focusing on tasks that best suit their skills and qualifications.

You can find a helpful list of staff member traits and skills that we recommend prioritizing, as well as traits we suggest avoiding, in our guide on How to Increase Student Grades. 

All Available Courses

To run a campus, you must first offer a selection of courses that students can attend and study. While some campuses will automatically have some courses on offer when first beginning a scenario, others will require you to unlock them through Course Points, which are earned each time you increase your Campus Level.

If you're not looking to offer a new course at your campus, you can use the Course Management menu to upgrade any course that is currently running. Upgrading a course will increase student intake and the course qualification level. Editing a course will also allow you to adjust the student intake, which can be further increased than what is suggested by an initial upgrade, by lowering tuition fees.

While lowering course fees isn't always recommended, it's a great method for increasing student happiness by 10% when lowering the normal tuition fees by -20%.

It's worth noting that any changes that you make to your courses will not take effect until the start of the new academic year.

Here's a list of all available courses that can be unlocked over the course of the campaign in Two Point Campus.

• Scientography
• Virtual Normality
• Gastronomy
• Funny Business
• Robotics
• Internet History
• General Knowledge
• Knight School
• Money Wangling
• Dark Art
• Wizardry
• Academic Exercise
• Musicality
• Countercultural Studies
• Archaeology
• Spy School
• School of Thought

See our complete Course Guide to find everything you need to know about all 17 courses that are available to unlock and teach in Two Point Campus. 

Loans

Loans can be helpful in the short term, especially if you're struggling to build the requirements needed to run your courses. However, before jumping into a loan, you first need to ensure you're able to make the monthly repayment while still having a small profit -- this will allow you some spare cash to purchase any items needed over the term of the loan. You risk entering inescapable debt if you're not earning enough to pay the bills.

Note that while it would be nice to have the extra cash from the "Swindles" and "Smell My Cash" loans, their interest rates are significantly hiked in price, which will drive higher repayments.

If you've taken a loan and are still managing to pull negative return figures each month, you will need to look at the root of the problem and potentially pull back the campus scale. You may want to lower your staff count, lower staff wages, and increase student tuition fees. However, these changes all have effects as both your staff and students will decrease happiness. If you cannot pay your staff, they will eventually decide to quit.

If you can repay the loan early, we highly recommend doing so. The quicker you're able to become debt free, the faster you'll be able to receive pure profit from all your hard work.

Student Clubs Offer Significant Advantages

Unlocked during Piazza Lanatra, you'll be able to set up student clubs when purchasing new club-related items that are available under the Club Items menu.

These clubs offer significant advantages and boosts that can positively affect your students and overall campus performance.

Here's a list of all student clubs available, as well as their benefits.

• Power-Nap Club
  • Club Members Regain Energy Anywhere
• Speed Walking Club
  • Club Members Walk Speedily
• Book Club
  • Club Members Learn Faster
• Nature Club
  • Club Members Maintain Campus Attractiveness
• Orb Club
  • Receive Money for Club Members
  • Reduces Club Member Happiness

How to Get the Kudosh Currency

One of the most valuable currencies in Two Point Campus is Kudosh, which is a rare currency that is obtained through the completion of random objectives, events, career goals, Bookworms, research tasks, and end-of-year awards.

This rare currency is used to purchase highly desired items that can increase your student's happiness, learning capability, and overall campus attractiveness.

Learn more about obtaining and farming Kudosh in our handy guide on How to Get and Farm Kudosh.

Frequently Asked Questions

Looking for answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about Two Point Campus? We’ve got you covered with the answers below.

Is Two Point Campus on Gamepass?

Yes, Two Point Campus is available on Gamepass at launch.

Are There Cheats in Two Point Campus

Unfortunately, there are no official cheats available in Two Point Campus, However, there are trainers available through third-party modding websites such as WeMod. While not available at launch, WeMod expects to provide the following Two Point Campus cheats:

• Player Cheats:
  • Unlimited Energy
  • Unlimited Happiness
  • Staff Max Rank
  • Unlimited Durability
• Inventory Cheats:
  • Unlimited Money
• Game Cheats:
  • Instant Upgrade
  • Instant Training