- Game: Hotel Architect
- Developer: Pathos Interactive
- Publisher: Wired Productions
- Review Platform: Steam
- Release Date: To Be Announced
Author’s Note: A Game Key for Hotel Architect (demo) was kindly provided by Wired Productions
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Hotel Architect is the upcoming Hotel Management Simulator where you can try your hand at being a hotel owner. However, that’s not all! While traversing the world and embracing the chaos that follows you, you’ll soon be learning the tricks of the trade. From constructing your hotel to the day to day management of your hotel, as well as dealing with tricky logistical situations and the odd disorderly guest. Hotel Architect has something for everyone.
Add your own personal flair to your hotel through a variety of different decorations and furnishings, while meeting your guests needs. With limitless potential, spanning multiple floors and countless combinations, you’ll be able to create a hotel that easily puts even the classiest of hotels to shame.
While creating the perfect functional hotel is one challenging, your guests will be your biggest challenge yet. You’ll need to put all of your skills to the test to ensure even the most difficult of guest leaves satisfied. Of course, you won’t be able to do this without the help of your personally tailored team behind you!
Have you got what it takes to become the ultimate Hotel Architect? Keep reading to find out more about the game and the exclusive Steam Next Fest Demo!
Hotel Architect: Key Features & Trailer
- Career & Sandbox Mode: Progress through the career mode, hit various objectives in order to play through each level in sandbox mode
- Dynamic Building: Create your own hotel from scratch into the fanciest of hotels. From building the foundations to each room and facility in the building across each floor. Just make sure to take care when planning, as you don’t want to upset or disturb your guests. The last thing you want is a bad review.
- Design & Decorate: Select from several unique zones that you can use throughout your hotel at ease. The Sandbox style gameplay will allow you to place decorations, add amenities as well as wallpapers and floors all to help you create the hotel you could only once dream of!
- Impress & Advance: Reviewers will be watching and judging every aspect of your hotel. The better your review, the more guests are likely to visit and pay for services, all of which will help you on the road to creating the ultimate hotel kingdom.
- Expand Over Multiple Locations: Open up hotels in a variety of unique locations around the world. Each location has its own style. You’ll find some locations already have some building and foundations in places, and others you’ll have to start from scratch.
- Manage Staff & Contractors: To truly accommodate your guests, you’re going to need a team behind you. From staff helping you run the hotel to contractors ensuring things run smoothly, this workforce will keep things running smoothly while making sure your guests are kept happy.
- Welcome Guests: Stay on top of everything and constantly adjust to new scenarios created by the many demands, both small and elaborate, from all kinds of different guests.
Your Hotel, Your Rules?
I’ve found my self wondering about dabbling in the world of hotels once or twice, but, who knew I would be taking on both building and the day to day running of my own!
For this Steam Next Fest, Hotel Architect has a brand new and exciting demo showcasing some of the many features players can expect to see what the game launches later this year. In fact, this demo is jam packed with so much to discover while not giving away everything you can expect to see in the full game.
So, let’s dive into the Hotel Architect Demo and explore Hotel Leeks!
Getting started with your first hotel is easy as the game guides you through the basics of moving around the screen, controlling the camera and learning how to build and manager your hotel.
For this starting scenario, the game took us to Gothenburg and presented us with a partially furnished hotel. Our task was finishing building different aspects of the hotel, learn how to build and furnish more rooms as well as zoning them (there are nine zones to explore in the demo) and finally learn how to hire staff and contractors.
Now that you have the basics covered, the game guides you through a variety of objectives before letting you go about completing some more on your own. There is no doing it wrong, more just remembering the correct order you need to do things in and remembering to hire the contractors!
As you progress through the scenario, you’ll slowly but surely see your hotel fill with guests, have critics visit for reviews, but you’ll also unlock several more features. These being Financial Overview, Upgrades and Opportunities.
Each of these allow you to get even closer to the day to day running of your hotel, see exactly where you are earning and loosing money, improve a wide variety of aspects of your hotel by researching upgrades and adding opportunities to your hotel to earn some extra income.
Finally, as you progress through each task on the to-do list, you’ll find your self inching closer to completing and becoming a master hotelier!
The Critics Choice
The Steam Next Fest demo for Hotel Architect is the perfect introduction to the game. From showing you the basics to managing the chaos while ensuring you are keeping your guests satisfied.
The tutorial for the demo I found was perfect, it didn’t overwhelm you, but also guided you the right amount as you learn how to build each different room and zone. It did take me a few attempts to get things working in the right order, but soon it felt like second nature, and I was adding rooms for my guests quicker than I could make money.
With Hotel Leeks taking shape, I was slowly starting to curate my team. With a pool of various skilled staff to choose from, creating the perfect team was straight forward and soon found them keeping busy in their respective areas of the hotel with ease.
Before I knew it, I was unlocking rewards for hitting various milestones such as watering ten plants and more. Unlocking various decorative items and furnishings along with new meal options in the restaurant. Without realising, Hotel Leeks was loosing more money and I knew I had to figure out a way to starting pulling myself out of the red. I turned to Opportunities rather than a loan from the Local Mob. While this did have a negative impact on a handful of guests temporarily, I was soon turning my finances around.
However, with that I was needing to expand onto the second floor once again, putting those familiar building skills to the test and enticing more guests to the Gothenburg based hotel.
My guests for the demo consisted of Backpackers and Sporty guests, so they were relatively straight forward to cater for and luckily with not too many issues.
There were times that I found myself running out of clean towels or sheets for guests, but I slowly found a system that worked to prevent it from happening. Whether it was the correct way to do it, I’m not sure, but it worked!
However, my biggest challenge was yet to come, the Critic. Questions filling my head, hoping that I was good enough to prove that Hotel Leeks has what it takes to be the next big thing. Yet we had success! The Critic review was perfect! Room for improvement, but still now sitting at two lovely stars!
With that, I also completed the Gothenburg scenario. This opened up the option to play this location in Sandbox mode, but also to progress onto Santorini, which is the second scenario in the demo. I was also given the option to continue in my current hotel for the time being.
Sandy Times Ahead in the Sandbox
I spent a little bit of time exploring Sandbox mode, and it was exactly what I expected having just played through the scenario. In this instance, you start with a blank canvas and build your way up from the foundations. I chose to start with the maximum amount of money and enabled cheats, although this would disable unlock rewards in the process.
Sandbox mode is ultimately what you expect it to be and while my hotel wasn’t looking to good, it was functional and worked for my guests.
Santorini Bound
Next stop Greece!
A change of location and a change of weather, Santorini here we go!
Again, the game presented us with a partially built hotel with room for expansion over time. This time, there are a number of new challenges, including making sure our guests are kept cool under the Santorini sun!
I got to work on the objectives and followed the in-game guidance to start navigating this new hotel experience. I am currently playing through the Santorini scenario, and it is definitely a step up from the first hotel!
A Critic’s Final Words
For my first demo of Steam Next Fest, I have been blown away by Hotel Architect. I’ve had so much fun playing through what the demo has to offer. I can’t fault the demo at all, and it only has me even more excited about the game’s full release in the future.
There is always something to think about, not just your next move, or how you are going to expand the hotel, but more about the finer details too. Streamlining processes, having a dream team, remembering to send contractors home once you no longer need them and more. It can seem overwhelming to start with trying to balance everything, keep money flowing in at a good pace and ensuring guest satisfaction is high but somehow, you find a way to manage. All of this while completing objectives, seizing opportunities, acing critic reviews and more.
Have I run into any issues at all, none that I noticed. I’m certain my next hotel will be hitting a full five stars!
Now, if you are interested in checking out Hotel Architect, you can play the Steam Next Fest Demo from 24th February 2025 and don’t forget to wishlist the game on Steam too! There’s still plenty in store for this hotel management game, including new locations to visit and guests to get to know.
Let me know if Hotel Architect is a game on your radar for Steam Next Fest below in the comment as well as your thoughts of the game!
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