Two Point Museum review

Supernatural history

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• Developer: Two Point Studios
• Publisher: SEGA
• Release: February 25th, 2025
• On: Windows, macOS
• From: Steam
• Price: £25/€30/$30
• Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10

Two Point Museum is a game about how the crushing practicalities of life eventually force you to spend less and less time on the things you truly care about.

More specifically, it’s a game where I started every stage as an enthusiastic interior design sicko and gradually devolved into the sort of dispassionate bean counter who’d happily shove a snack machine next to a priceless prehistoric armadillo skeleton if it meant raking in a two percent bump to customer satisfaction. Feast on snacks, you swine. Feast so I may harvest your fulfilment to unlock a wall hanging that looks like melted cheese.

Like the studio’s previous management games , it’s about running a successful business by keeping customers and staff happy. Visitors want an educational, entertaining, clean and attractive museum with an adequate snack-to-piss pipeline. Staff want training, nice sofas, and good pay. It’s the biggest and most interesting Two Point game but also the most exhausting, and all for the same reason: it feels like two or three sequels in one.

It is stuffed to bursting. There is melted cheese coming out of its nose and it barely notices because it rarely breathes. A good writing trick Alice Bell (RPS in peace) taught me was to go back after you’d finished and cut 10% off your word count. I think Museum could have shaved off a similarly sized tuft of new ideas and ended up a bit more aerodynamic and honestly more fun. Still, it practically buzzes with the creativity of a team let loose to be weird, ambitious, and a little reckless. Like its Tommy Gun drum of dad jokes, it’s all very endearing despite eliciting some massive groans.

They’re the sort of groans you do after smashing overrich fondue. I’m forced to take occasional lie-downs but I keep getting back up because there’s always more to discover. Most exhibits are single-use plonkables you dig up by sending your staff on expeditions. If they get stolen or you deconstruct them, which you need to do for research, you have to dig up more. This changes something you’d previously barely think about into a finite resource you have to plan for, like toilet paper when you first move out of your parent’s house. A thief nabs my fossil and the interior design sicko in me channels Ed Norton in Fight Club mourning the loss of a sofa he figured he’d never have to buy again.

Staff can pick up traits through expedition events, dillemas, and maybe a secret, third method. |Image credit:SEGA/Rock Paper Shotgun

Sometimes the sofas are plants that look like deck chairs, and sometimes you have to pop them in a fancy science blender so the rest of your botany bits get a bump to ‘knowledge’. That’s a secondary resource that joins the tertiary ‘buzz’ (how excited your guests are about your exhibits) in determining how successful your Museum actually is. More so than money, which buys you neither love nor deck chair plants.

For that, I need to stuff my staff in a helicopter and send them to the jungle, preferably equipped with medical supplies or ghillie suits or the right training perks so they don’t get Audrey II’d or come back traipsing tar all over my immaculately screen-surface-reflecting marble floors. I spent minutes picking the right tiles for those floors! Minutes! Sometimes staff get into choose-your-own scrapes and sometimes they get possessed by ghosts which tends to make your visitors run off screaming. I love the space for emergent yarns here but the expeditions smear on the jammy micromanagement thick. I want toast but it’s telling me I can’t have the butter until I finish eating the plastic tub.

So: I’m back at my first museum trying to get a third star. The campaign is much more freeform this go around, giving you overarching objectives to increase your ‘curator class’ which you can - and sometimes must - do across multiple museum locations. But I’ve got a thing in these games about getting three stars because it’s those objectives that really stress test the systems, offering you the more interesting and complex challenges. Maxing out one location tends to teach you the nuances.

Different guest types have their own preferences and behaviour, and you can run marketing campaigns targeting specific groups. |Image credit:SEGA/Rock Paper Shotgun

To get that star, I need to first unlock 14 expedition spots on the bone belt map. Two are behind blockers, which means I need to make two drills in my workshop, which means sending janitors on an exhibition to source the metal I need to build the drills, then sending an expert to make them in the workshop. Even once I’ve got the drills, I need to train up more staff so they’ve got the traits to counter the events on the blocker expedition so they don’t go MIA and…at this exact moment I really just want to be putting up wallpaper.

Which I can obviously do by just exiting the level and opening sandbox mode. Except sandbox mode doesn’t let me use all the lovely themed bins and melted cheese decorations I’ve unlocked in campaign by (and here’s a word I’ve been trying to avoid but it was going to come up eventually) grinding out knowledge points by deconstructing exhibits. Moments like this don’t feel you’re like curating a lovely museum as much as they feel like a tug of war between two angry Excel spreadsheets. You’re the rope.

Obviously spreadsheets are part of the fun to an extent, but not when I’ve got a stack of appetising sofa menus I’d really like to get back to. I push through the unlocks because I’m ultimately enjoying myself with how much novel detail is here and, crucially, how Museum merges tools for creativity and efficiency so well. It’s those partition walls again. They bear the load of my heavy heart and I love them dearly for how transformative they are. They’re joined by partition ropes, one-way gates and staff-only doors. Now, you can funnel guests and architect beautifully complex buildings at the same time. You can make damn well sure they exit through the gift shop.

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Those gift shops are just one added layer of thoughtful simulation. Build one selling sea-themed plushies filled with speakers blasting aquatic ambience ( not that one, unfortunately ) next to an actual aquarium, and visitors suddenly very into fish throw money at you. There are dozens of little details like this. I notice goths turning up in the museum. They’re too stoic to care about entertainment or other such frippery, but they’re very into knowledge. Visitors have personal ambitions for their dream day out and the goths frequently want to get turned into vampires. I have no idea what this means until I excavate blood-sucking bat plants that do just that. There are even several genres of criminal. One of them is the ‘Boggymen’ who sneak in through toilet bowls, which means you have to set up security cameras outside the bathroom like you’re suspicious the natural history professors are honking blow in the cubicles (make your own education funding gag).

I moaned in my preview that I’d have liked to see some of the private healthcare satire in Hospital brought in here to at least lightly rib the British Museum’s historical passion for nicking everyone’s shit. No such luck. Campus actually had a deft ludic pivot away from the amusingly sinister theme by making the quality of the education you were selling a factor in your success. Museum basically swerves it through sheer absurdity, although there is perhaps something to unpack in the way the Cheesemoonger aliens visit you from space to see their own culture’s artefacts which you nicked from space. I don’t think it’s necessarily Two Point’s responsibility, but it does seem like a missed opportunity to have some fun at the expense of an allegedly very dodgy institution .

Pre-built challenge maps have you fulfill set objectives to unlock bonus decorations and cash. |Image credit:SEGA/Rock Paper Shotgun

I’m left impressed by Two Point Museum more than I actually enjoyed playing it. It’s as thematically endearing as ever (sans the above), crammed with detail, and the new design customisation features are brilliant. But I also think it should have slammed the breaks on shoving in so many new, granular systems. It doesn’t take long before you’re pulled in too many directions and distracted from the stuff that’s actually enjoyable. It makes the game feel sludgier and more calculated and tiresome than its novel and bright coating deserves.

“Nice bit of cheese” you think, your environmental satisfaction rising as you pass. I smile, but do not fool yourself. The spirited joy of the interior design sicko I once was has long since been smothered by a morass of spreadsheets, my spark extinguished like a roman candle dropped in a swamp, eaten and digested and ejected by a crocodile, then recycled to make a clipboard. I am not smiling because you’re happy. I am smiling because the numbers went up.

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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them

These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints

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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.

This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.

We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.

In this guide:

• What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
• Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
• Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations

What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?

Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).

To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.

It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.

Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes

Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:

Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.

Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders

Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:

• Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
• Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
• Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
• High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
• Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
• Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
• Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.

Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.

Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .

In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.

Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.

Blueprints obtained from quests

One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.

Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:

• Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
• Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
• Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
• Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.

Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.

One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints obtained from Trials

One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.

Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.

Best Blueprint farming locations

The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.

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Dam Battlegrounds

The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.

There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.

Buried City

The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.

Spaceport

The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.

The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.

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Blue Gate

Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .

All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.

Stella Montis

On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.

In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.

That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.

While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.

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