Hotel Galactic PREVIEW
Hotel Galactic is a cozy construction and management simulator in which players will have to revive and manage a unique hotel on the edge of the galaxy. Hotel Galactic and other works of Studio Ghibli are united not only by visual style and concept, but much more – the presence of warmth and atmosphere. That is why their games are so homely, kind and attractive.
The first thing that immediately catches your attention in Hotel Galactic is, of course, the visual style. It is magnificent here! Everything is hand-drawn with attention to the smallest details.
In this game, you are a wandering spirit who is given charge of an old, dilapidated hotel built on an island floating in space. You will have to meet the staff of the establishment, clear the territory with their help, collect some resources and start turning this place into something suitable for living and relaxing.
In Hotel Galactic, you don’t just manage a hotel — you literally restore it. At the very beginning, you get a dilapidated building, forgotten and abandoned. And then it’s up to you: build floors, design rooms to your taste, decorate the rooms with whatever your heart desires. The mechanics of placing furniture, by the way, turned out to be quite well thought out: thanks to the lack of a rigid grid and the ability to place objects at an angle, the room looks alive, and not constrained by the framework of conventions.
When the hotel begins to look a little like a place to receive guests, and after the harbor has been renovated, the first ship arrives. This is how visitors appear at Hotel Galactic – on small aircraft. Everyone has preferences in food, music, comfort.
When the hotel starts to look a little like a place to receive guests, and after the harbor has been renovated, the first ship arrives. This is how visitors appear at Hotel Galactic – on small aircraft. Everyone has preferences in food, music, comfort. Some don’t touch certain dishes, some can’t fall asleep without a radio in the room. Receiving such clients is like solving mini-puzzles. Sometimes you just don’t have time to prepare all the rooms, and they leave without waiting.
At first glance, it seems like this is just a hotel business simulator — but it’s not. Relationships with employees also play an important role here. You can influence their dialogues, make decisions that slightly change the course of events. Even if the main plot is not particularly memorable, such little things give the game character.
The culinary mechanics are interestingly arranged. Here you can not only cook dishes from pre-set recipes, but also independently combine ingredients, choose a processing method, and then save the result as a new dish. And if you unblock the road to the pasture on the site behind the hotel, another layer of the game will open – growing plants and caring for animals. Raw ingredients from here can be used in cooking.
Unfortunately, it is not without technical problems yet. Starting from small bugs, when it is impossible to select a small object even when there are no obstacles nearby, to banal optimization – the game freezes on high settings, although it should not.
The final assessment of the game can be given only after the release in 2026, but it is already clear: despite some rough edges (which will most likely be eliminated as updates progress), Hotel Galactic gives the impression of a project with great potential. If you want something warm, pleasant and relaxing after a busy day – take a closer look. This game knows how to charm and may well take a worthy place among the best representatives of the genre over time. The main thing is to remember that this is not the final version yet, but a project that will develop before your eyes.
Hotel Galactic is not just a simulator, but an opportunity to create your own cozy corner in the depths of space. Thanks to expressive visual style, a good control system, a wide space for creativity and elements of exploration, it offers a calm and exciting gameplay.
If you like construction simulators, magical space themes and atmospheric games with visual aesthetics reminiscent of the best works of Studio Ghibli, this project may well become your new favorite.
