Game info

• Title My Perfect Hotel
• Developer SayGames
• Publisher SayGames
• Year 2022
• Platforms iPhone, iPad
• Genre Simulation

Ever dreamed of running your own hotel? Start from the ground up in this fun and fast-paced time-management game where the aim is to build an accommodation empire and demonstrate your dedication to hospitality. Show your skills as a hotel manager, invest wisely in staff and property improvements, and work your socks off to become a hospitality tycoon in this addictive and entertaining casual simulator.

Player Select

I don’t remember specifically why I downloaded this game but it’s one of those that often appears in the top lists of free games, and it’s also one of those tycoon style hotel games, which do appeal to me. It’s ad supported which would usually be a turn off but for some reason the forced ads never showed for me, only those ones that you can opt into to get helpful rewards, which made playing it more pleasant than it otherwise would have been.

It’s in the Game

There’s something weird about this game, in that it’s not at all how the description makes it sound. It’s not a fast-paced game at all, and it really isn’t about making sensible decisions. You do start basically from scratch and as you earn money you buy upgrades - more rooms, better facilities, other money-making opportunities - and you grow up the hotel chain. But you only have so many options to upgrade to at a time and it doesn’t really matter which order you do them in, you still have to do them all before progressing to the next stage.

It’s sort of straddling the line between an idle game and a time-management one because you do have to be an active participant, but you also have all the time in the world. Your hotel also makes money when you’re not playing it that you can claim once you open the app back up again.

There’s definitely something satisfying about wandering around, collecting money, ugprading rooms and collecting even more money. But in the end, it gets boring pretty quickly, because that’s pretty much all you do.

Thoughts

Ultimately not a game that sustains attention and whilst it’s fun to have a look round, I only got as far as the second hotel before being bored. And I was lucky not to have ads, I think if they were interrupting all the time it would make for a much less agreeable playing experience and would quite quickly have been deleted.

Rating: 2 / 5