Hotel Renovator

Neat idea poorly executed. Over 30 GB suggests to me that the game is not particularly well optimized and it doesn't run great, I ran into lighting, gameplay, and physics bugs. The hotel management aspect is barely implemented, no real process for guests checking in and out, but hey, you can catch ghosts and roll dice with a chicken, if that's the reason you wanted to play a hotel renovation game. The actual renovation part of the game is okay, the UI is clunky, and the color options are a pain to go through. There are too many options for things that don't need them, such as dozens of different candle shapes and drinking glasses. Some variety is important of course, but having an extra level of menu for those categories would have gone a long way, and I can't help but remember this game is 38 GIGABYTES as I'm flipping through the 18th bronze statue option. To be clear, the game could have justified that download size if it was particularly attractive or detailed, but the NPCs look horrible, animations are stiff, lighting maps are a mess, and it simply doesn't look like a game that is THREE TIMES the file size of say... House Flipper, a game that it clearly took inspiration from, while not having noticeably unique content of its own where it matters. Every time you open the game you are basically rolling the dice (aptly) on what tasks the game will remember you've completed. Entering a room will occasionally trigger dialogue for something you already did hours ago. Eventually I just started refusing all special guest requests because they were too annoying to deal with especially the "place 10 blue furniture" one, where apparently the game's definition of "blue" differs heavily from reality. All this frustration aside, I did enjoy the actual process of decorating the hotel, more even the common rooms, where the game gives you more freedom to play around than the guest rooms. A few hours of genuine decorating fun interspersed with grinding through many more hours of the bizarre guest requests (sure wish the hotels I stay at would have a complimentary electric guitar and concert amp stack) and repetitive gameplay