Hotel Architect

Hotel Architect is a fun little sandbox game where you create a hotel, design & manage it. From creating the rooms to hiring employees and customizing the layout. I completed the campaign and all of the bonus objectives and overall I do recommend this game. It is fun to play, but it is not perfect. There are a few things that I really struggled with or found frustrating to deal with - so the rest of this review is really for the developers if they just happen to read this. - At first when you start, I feel like there is a good description of what each staff member does. When you click on them or when you hire them, there isn't anything that explicitly says what they do. It took me forever to realize that my maintenance crew was restocking things that went out of stock. - The waiters drive me absolutely insane. Why is it that I have 1 waiter PER TABLE and yet they still aren't greeting customers and people are leaving the restaurant before being sat. I played the entire game with this problem. I watch the waiters walk around and do absolutely nothing and they don't have the passive trait that makes them waste time day dreaming. I just don't know why my wait staff is so terrible. Even when micromanaging what they do, still not good enough. I also wished that "greeting & serving" did not share the same check box because at this point I wanted someone to only greet people. - I experienced a bug at least twice where everyone in my hotel was randomly kicked out of their rooms. 1 star reviews everywhere and of course the critic was always present. An immediate 1 star putting the whole hotel back was so irritating and time consuming to fix while waiting 3 days for a new critic, just hoping I would get the bubble that allows me to request one right away. and that leads into my next complaint about x3 speed... - x3 speed just doesn't feel fast enough to be honest. There are several times I set the game to x3 and just walked away and ate dinner or something because the only thing I felt I could do was wait for my hotel to make more money or wait for another critic. - Is it just me or do bartenders level up super slow compared to the rest of staff? Same with the Bellhops as well. - You get notifications in the bottom right all the time that "so and so is mad" or "an item broke" or something but when you click on the binoculars that are supposed to take to you the event, it just randomly takes you....to a random location. It does not work properly. - I really wish staff had different color options for the work uniforms. I know you can change the outfits entirely in custom characters but what if I want my receptionists to wear the same outfit but in a different color? - Speaking of colors....sometimes the items such as rugs just really either do not match other items or the small icons don't match what color they actually are. Small nitpick but would love the colors to be a little more matching with other things. - After I did the London mission I unlocked new curtains, which are cute, but they have a double window and then only I think the left side "single window" curtain, but the right side one doesn't exist? Like the base curtains have both? Very strange, this must be a bug or an oversight? - A mass "undo" button would be so nice. I cannot tell you how many times I went to delete a single item, accidentally clicked the floor which selected the "zone", and without realizing it I deleted the zone which then prompted every zone specific item to enter deletion mode where the builders would come remove it. If i replace the zone then I have to go back to every single item and hit the "undo" button or whatever it is to make the builders not take it away. - It also took me awhile to understand I could click on bedrooms and hover over each guest type and it would show check boxes. This then helped me understand that just because rooms are larger, they don't require everything that the "lower" level guest required. It took me several missions to realize I didn't need ironing boards in rooms made for Brats. But I had assumed they required it because business people who are a tier lower, did require it. - I feel like I could add more but that's all I can think of for now. I don't want to sound negative, I have enjoyed the game and do like it, but there lots of QOL updates that could be made.