Hotel Magnate

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Hotel Magnate is a single player survival city builder game with economy and business themes. It was developed by Arcade Oven and was released on September 23, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, motel, resort, or tent? With a ridiculous amount of customisation tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

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Audience ScoreBased on 309 reviews

gameplay10 positive mentions

stability14 negative mentions

The game offers extensive customization with freeform building and a wide range of furniture and color options, allowing creative hotel design.
The developers are highly active and responsive to community feedback, frequently releasing updates and addressing bugs.
Management gameplay has a solid foundation with staff hiring, guest satisfaction, and utilities systems, providing a relaxing and engaging experience once understood.

The game is plagued by numerous bugs, crashes, and performance issues, often making it frustrating or impossible to progress or save.
Tutorials and user interface are confusing or inadequate, with poor guidance for new players and complicated or clunky controls.
Key features like multi-floor building, advanced management options, room duplication, and pricing control are missing or unfinished, limiting long-term gameplay and depth.

gameplay
41 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
24%
54%
22%
The gameplay offers a mix of fun and innovative features like tiered unlocks and diverse customization, but is currently hampered by clunky controls, bugs, and incomplete mechanics common to early access. Tutorials can be overcomplicated or lacking key information, and ongoing balancing issues affect engagement over extended play. While the core concepts show promise, the gameplay needs more refinement, additional content, and improved accessibility to fully realize its potential.
- “It feels a lot more complete now, I enjoyed the gameplay.”
- “Being able to use all the features so far has been a treat and I've had a lot of fun playing even with the limited mechanics available.”
- “Even at this stage it's worth the price: lots of customization, furnishings and textures full of retro charm, quirky characters, good tutorial and helpful clips explaining game mechanics, enough content to play with multiple styles/designs, in-game building tools indicate that there is no limit to show creativity, even at early access.”
- “Save games don't work, mechanics are buggy and overall the game needs more development time to fix its foundational issues.”
- “The gameplay has ongoing balancing problems and persistent bugs, making it progressively harder to enjoy the game the longer you play.”
- “The tutorial is overcomplicated, menus and general gameplay are clunky, and even in a short playtime, it feels tedious.”
graphics
22 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
23%
63%
14%
The graphics are generally simple, cartoony, and vibrant, which some players find charming and easy on the eyes, while others view them as unfinished or low quality with limited settings and occasional glitches. Although the art style offers aesthetic customization options and good performance, many feel the visuals lack depth and polish, detracting from the overall satisfaction.
- “This game has great graphics, easy to learn, is fun and I like it.”
- “I love that you can upgrade low quality furniture without changing its appearance, it gives you so many options for the aesthetic of your hotel.”
- “I love the vibrant colors and the happy humorous art style as well.”
- “There are very few graphics settings, so it seems like the dev team didn't have time or doesn't have experience in graphics programming.”
- “Graphic quality is horrid, feels very unfinished even for early access.”
- “Guests models are very poor, there is no single player campaign (only sandbox), no support for ultra wide displays, interface is ugly, graphics need major improvement, guests behavior is odd.”
story
15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
20%
60%
20%
The game currently lacks a fully developed story mode, functioning more as a sandbox experience with limited mission variety and progression. Players express frustration with repetitive, slow-paced tasks, bugs during missions, and limited content such as lack of multi-story building and customization options. Overall, there's a strong desire for a richer narrative, larger plots, and expanded gameplay features to enhance engagement.
- “I wish there was more of a story mode so I could spend less time building and more time managing.”
- “It has a long way to go content-wise, including a story mode or campaign, larger plots, multiple floors, and bug fixes, so if you're looking for a fully finished game, this is not it yet.”
- “No real story mode at the moment, so it's just a pure sandbox in its current state, feeling like there is not enough you can do, especially as you cannot expand.”
- “No real story mode at the moment, so it's just a pure sandbox in its current state, feeling like there isn't enough you can do, especially since you cannot expand.”
- “It has a long way to go content-wise: a story mode or campaign, larger plots, multiple floors, bug fixes, etc. If you're looking for a fully finished game, this is not it yet.”
- “You are constantly in debt; it's really slow-paced, and if you try to keep up with the quests, it will put you into debt unless you build extremely small rooms, but then guests are unhappy since you can't really upgrade them.”
stability
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game is plagued by numerous bugs, glitches, and stability issues including save game failures, freezing, lag, and problematic mechanics, which significantly hinder the overall experience despite some players enjoying the design and graphics. While it shows potential, especially with new additions like sandbox mode, it requires extensive development and bug fixing to improve foundational stability.
- “Save games don't work, mechanics are buggy and just overall need more time in development sorting out the very foundation of the game.”
- “A lot of glitches, very bad, and does not recognize placement of items or rooms. Every time I gain a star, when I save and exit and then reload the game again, I lose a star. Also, where are the quests? No one shows up except for a few quests. Then I build a restaurant and hardly anyone shows up. I build a casino and no one shows up. Where is the action in this game? I keep trying to give this game a chance but get discouraged with all the glitches and errors. Also, the workers stay in the staff room and do not come out no matter how much I pay them. Also, when I copy a room to the adjoining room, it works poorly.”
- “I think the game is okay; once the bugs get fixed and new things are added, it will be a great management game. But ever since the last update, which happened like 2 or 3 days after I got it, the game freezes on me after just a few minutes of gameplay.”
grinding
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
10%
90%
Grinding in this game is generally described as tedious, monotonous, and slow, with gameplay often feeling clunky and overly complicated. While some players find it manageable for completionists, many feel the repetitive tasks and slow progression significantly detract from the overall enjoyment.
- “I had hope for this game since I really enjoy builders, but it's just tedious, monotonous, and boring.”
- “I wouldn't recommend it though unless you really like tedious gameplay with little enjoyment.”
- “Getting to a 5 star rating isn't hard, but it isn't fun and it's way slower than it should be, given how tedious the gameplay mechanics are.”
music
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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24%
38%
The music in the game receives mixed feedback, with some players praising it as charming and enjoyable, while others find it irritating, mismatched, or reminiscent of 80s elevator music. Several users suggest the soundtrack could be improved or replaced to better fit the game’s atmosphere. Additionally, implementing features like jukeboxes to play selected tracks and enhancing sound effects might enhance the overall audio experience.
- “Also charming art, and a rad soundtrack.”
- “It's simple to understand and the songs are really good too.”
- “Great music”
- “Otherwise this game is really promising although I hope the soundtrack gets replaced with something more fitting when the time comes; the current one kind of feels off, in my opinion.”
- “Game music is really bad (80s lift music) and the sounds of the 'sims' when zoomed in are just strange foot patters.”
- “There's one irritating thing on loop for background music; the gameplay is empty, the controls are clunky at best... it just isn't ready.”
optimization
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
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Optimization remains a notable issue, with users reporting performance problems such as stuttering, though improvements have been made over time. Despite some cumbersome moments, the game’s ongoing development and player feedback aim to enhance performance and add features for a smoother experience.
- “Of course it still needs a decent amount of optimization and improved features, but what's there can already be enjoyed albeit cumbersome at times.”
- “The game started somewhat basic with basic mechanics but they have since optimized the system with more options and shortcut key controls.”
- “I get the sense that this all comes down to performance, but performance shouldn't be this much of an issue.”
- “There is still some performance issues and it is a bit annoying.”
- “Though there are plenty of things that need to be fixed, addressed, or implemented (I, for one, have stuttering issues which I believe will be fixed with further optimizations), this game is in early access, but the development team needs constant player feedback to continue making this game better.”
monetization
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Monetization is criticized for misleading advertising that promises more features like multi-story hotels, which are absent in the current early access version, giving the impression of a potential cash grab rather than a fully polished product. Users feel the game prioritizes ad revenue over actual gameplay depth and development.
- “If the game had a chance it would show ads for unlocking features.”
- “Give it time, check to see if they have made it better, or if this was just a quick cash grab as so many other games appear to be anymore.”
- “The video advert of the game must be on full release and not early access, as currently you cannot have multiple floors and multiple maps, it's just one map (in the woods) and its a ground floor hotel only, a major advertisement con if you ask me.”
humor
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor is widely appreciated for being genuinely hilarious and engaging, with guest reviews adding a fun and varied comedic element. Additionally, the vibrant colors and cheerful, humorous art style enhance the overall lighthearted and enjoyable experience.
- “This is hilarious.”
- “Guest reviews are very interesting and funny; I hope they have a huge variety of reviews that help keep it interesting.”
- “I love the vibrant colors and the happy, humorous art style as well.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game offers solid replayability in its current form, but implementing a few changes could significantly enhance its longevity and make it infinitely replayable.
character development
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users appreciate the character design and look forward to enhanced character development once existing bugs are resolved, indicating potential for a more polished and engaging experience.