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Hotel Giant 2
Developer Enlight Software Limited, PerspectX
Following its international success, Hotel Giant is back and bigger than ever. In Hotel Giant 2 you will create the hotel of your dreams and manage prestigious locations around the world. Your goal is to attract as many guests as possible and make sure they are satisfied throughout their stay. From the Steam store page
134 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Jul 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
44
Mixed
59 positive · 74 negative
95% range 36–53%
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| Steam reviews | 59 | 74 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
143 of 311 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 134 · most liked firstTLDR; Crash at start up? -> Run as admin. Glowing Screen? -> Turn off dynamic lighting. Messing with the graphics settings and game just crashes and you're unable to change them because the game can't load? -> Edit /Documents/Games/Hotel Giant 2/config.dat Dev of this game? -> Fix ya broken ass code. How has this not been fixed yet? I'm really not an advocate for piracy but just pirate the game instead, you'll only realise how crap was was anyway and delete it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Agree with the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Robbed. I actually feel like I have been mugged by the developers of this game. The HD update has rendered the game completely unplayable as the main screen turns into a bizarre white glow so that nothing is visible. Such a shame as this game is so much fun. Seeing as this has been the case now for nearly 6 months (since the HD update) and the developers have done NOTHING to rectify the situation, I am not holding my breath for a fix anytime soon. Stay away.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Guys the game runs fine you just need to turn Glow Effect off in settings if you get the white glow problem. Pretty cool game. Bit limited in modes and construction options but enjoyable to play :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"HD" Update renders game unplayable for me with a whiteout effect on everything, bloom gone wild you could say. No amount of setting tweaks fixes my issue.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game does no longer run in Windows 10. Do not buy in case your device runs in Windows 10.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basic Information Title: Hotel Giant 2 HD Developer: Enlight Software Limited & PerspectX Publisher: United Independent Entertainment Genre: Economic Simulator General Impression Hotel Giant 2 was released in 2010, but received in 2015 an HD update which has met a lukewarm reception. And with good reasons too. While the game looks very good for an economic sim, it crashes quite a lot (so I definitely suggest saving your progress every 30 minutes or so) even without the visual and sound…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're having problems with a white glow preventing you from seeing anything, turn off the glow in settings! Options -> Video Settings -> Exterior Graphics Settings -> Glow Effect: Off The game isn't unplayable! Just old. I loved the Hotel Giant games so much as a kid, and fondly remember the many hours I spent playing my aunt's copies whenever I visited my Granny <3 The gameplay is engaging, with in-depth economic and business simulation that mirrors the experience and fantasy of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I honestly can't reccomend it anymore. Spent tons of time on HG1 as a child but now its lost it's glamour - too slow paced.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey guys, sorry for my bad English. I just want to tell you guys my experience. I have just downloaded this Hotel Giant 2 and played it. At first, when read all the comments, I had a little confuse and worry. Because a lots of people said they cannot play the game. My laptop gaming is MSI and run Win 10. I love this game so much when I was young, so I decided buy it and think about take a risk if the game cannot run too. But lucky for me, the game run very good, but at first, the game will out…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I probably have more hours on this game than anyone else who owns it. It either says I really like this game, or I have no life. The answer is yes to both. I love tycoon, management and building games. There is some bugs and glitchyness, but they are not gamebreaking in my opinion. I give this game a 6.5/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent game! The sandbox mode offers an extremely large area or the world to develope and build your hotel empire! if you're having problems with a bright screen, change the visual settings. 9/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So... broken. Graphical mess for me, making it near unplayable. Hopefully someone can rate it with having actually "played" it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great management game that lets you add your own design skills. Lots of hidden gems in the strategy aspect. Hours of fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really bad game! didn't play much, but there is a lot of things that is wrong! awful interface, bad tutorial, not understandable options, features. couldn't find how to even add new rooms or objects, creating buttons disabled, doesn't say how to enable, tutorial featured only camera movements, nothing with build/creating weren't there... Not Recommending this awful thing to anyone!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game crashes on launch, when it does not crash it only shows a black screen. Unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played the first Hotel Giant which I enjoyed very much, so I had to try this one, I can't say I'm disappointed in playing in the game, as I like these sort of games in regards to simulation and strategy. Highly recommended if you're into this sort of thing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice remake of the old game. Working fine on my computer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BE CAREFUL! I owned the original Hotel Giant on CD rom, but never had Hotel Giant 2. The recent sale reduced this game to little over £1, just under $2. Seemed like a good opportunity to try it out. Be careful about buying games like this one, you are playing a game that is by modern standards, very much outdated, the UI is bad, the controls are awkward,as such, this game bought me nowhere near as much joy as it did back in the day, when spectacular games like Skyrim didn’t exist. I’ve not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is very absorbing. It is a tycoon type game, where you make your Hotel or Hotels grow, but it is up to you. There are finances, income, costs, buildings etc, to consider. Plus, of course, your hotel interiors, you need some design skills, the customers notice all this. You need to have well priced restaurants, coffee shops and bars. Plus also, your customers want something to occupy them.Some like to buy jewelry in your shop, or maybe arts and crafts, or just relax and read in your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're wondering how an error screen looks like displaying "Game can't be run", at the middle of game loading screen, landing you back to desktop; this game is for you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You start the game as a small two star chain hotel manager. For you, life is cheap and your hourly rates are cheaper. Little by little you slowly devour customers and their possessions until you reach critical mass, allowing you to bribe hotel officials and pushing you up a star rating. Upon reaching a grand total of fire stars, the hotel drops the pretence of accommodation and uproots itself from its earthly bounds and begins rampaging through a downtown of your choosing. This is where the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Totally unplayable. The opening screen is clear and bright and the sound remains crisp and clear throughout. Once the menu starts up, it goes into a white blurry mess. No matter what screen resolution I've set the game on, It's still a blurry mess. I got this game through a package bundle cheap enough. The other games are fine. So I hate to return this game and risk losing the other games in the package bundle. Until the Dev's fix the problem with some sort of patch or something, you're just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is unplayable. Loading Finished hotel or trying to do campaign all you get is "bright white screen" with some colored objects. No way to actually see what is going on
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Folks, if your screen goes white at main menu, just go to options and take off 'glow effect'. I tried this on the recommendation of other posters here, regardless of the negative commentary and my game is fine, and totally playable. For it's time, Hotel Giant is a pretty seamless experience. I've played worse games, and I did enjoy this one. Sadly, it seems it is the only one of its type out there, so we have little choice in the matter, if you want to be a Hotel tycoon. Pro's: Great…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game and it is broken! I get a black screen and music, then the cursor appears but nothing happens. The game is unplayable as it does not display. Ironically I had to leave it on the black screen for 5 minutes to be able to write the review. Do not buy this game, it just does not work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you guys purchase this game and/or updated the game, then got a "glow" or bright white screen, turning the game's game quality to "low" actually got rid of the bright screen. I didn't really have to change anything else.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotel Giant 2 could have been an interesting game, if it actually worked. While I commend the developers for issuing an "HD Update" that supposedly brought the game into the 1080p era, the result is still an unplayable mess. Upon starting the game, NOTHING is visible, and the mouse is stuck in the middle of the screen. It moved a few pixels, but jumped back to the middle. I eventually found that ctlr-alt-del and task manager, then shift back to the game, somehow freed up the mouse. It seems…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game will not run on windows 10. Tried multiple fixes e.g. running as admin, running via compatability troubleshooter, validating files, plus windows software recommended downloads from forums. No chance. Don't buy this. Its sad as I enjoyed playing this many years ago.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like it. I didn't experience the black screen like others did and I'm not playing on a fancy gaming system. I'm playing on an older laptop. I love the game its super fun and played until 4 am one night. I would definitely do it again. And for anyone saying I'm lying or getting paid I'm doing neither the game just works for me, I don't know why it works for me and no one else (I play on an older laptop, windows 7).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Piece of garbage game - i can’t even click anything in order to change the settings to remove the horrid glow effect. Considering the number of negative reviews on this title the developers are really careless to not address the issue. Good thing steam has our backs with returns. Pros Nothing Cons Game doesn’t work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it on sale for $1.59 and still feel ripped off. Steam said I somehow played more than 2 hours when this game was almost unplayable. I didn’t have known issues with the white lighting but then again couldn’t get far since all the pieces I kept trying to move that the game said I could place would never let me place in certain areas or without closing the option to move it and reopen the option multiple times. After moving 1-3 other items I could no longer move a different object without…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a tycoon type game, where you make your Hotel lots of people said they cannot play the game if you go to the community page for this game theirs some info on there how to run game if you having problems
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game when I was young. I couldn't wait to play again when I found it on steam. Fun and easy game to waist time on. I love it! Good Job Steam.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you recommend this game, absolutely not, if there was an even lower score I'd give it without a doubt. I've been very patient with this game. On my first 2 (!) computers I couldn't get it to work at all. Now, on my 3rd computer I decided to just give it a try again and to my complete surprise, it actually started. I was very excited to finally, after 3 years, start to play this game. Boy, was I wrong... First the game was just bathing in bright light. Oké fine, can happen to anyone, Google…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the best game of all time. I was very satisfied with the experience I recieved and highly reccomend it. You can listen to customers complaints, make changes to wallpaper on the fly, and even rotate the camera! Almost everything you would get from a real hotel manager position. I came in my pants when I played this game. (c) FordR
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heya folks, here's today's 10s Main Menu, this time featuring the 2008 simulation game Hotel Giant 2 by Enlight Software Limited, PerpectX and Toplitz Productions. #hotelgiant2 #videogames #retrogames #simulationgames #shorts #mainmenu
unlabelledView post →This is the worst sim building game I have ever seen, why is it so weird about where I can place things? I can't place a bed near a wall, or even in the middle of the guest room, I have to place it NEXT TO THE DOOR?! This was AFTER I had to spam click the door and then spam click the wall, it wouldn't add the door to the room... Very clunky.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Potential to be a really good fun game. Too many bugs that are clearly not gonna be fixed. Rooms never being used.. Pool empty.. Outside buildings not used.. Restaurants empty.. Advertisement campaigns having ZERO affect.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotel Giant 2 is an ancient game from 2010. It's a whopping 14 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for the typical features of modern gaming PCs, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on contemporary machines. The game looks and feels dated. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an old game. This seems to have be lingering on Steam with an inflated price to try profit from abandonware. It's a hotel tycoon game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoy this game because I want to own and run a hotel, and this is really the only game you simulate that... however, this game could use a lot of improvements and updates to the selection of furniture and people... It's very early 2000's and I get so tired of every single person complaining that the 'room' is to small... Like has the developer ever been in a hotel before because the rooms are small... they aren't 'big' unless you build a presidential, which I have, and even that room they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After the first time of playing, this game never loaded again. Such a shame as i enjoy the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Now I know for 100% that this game will not work good on the windows 10, just a big shame so I hope the new hotel game that is getting made will be a lot better
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my game does not work and i want my money back
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The HD update has made the game quite enjoyable so far. I haven't encountered any game-breaking bugs. Some people in the negative reviews say they get a white screen, but you can fix that by turning the "Glow Effect" off in the settings. If you like tycoon games, then you have to have this in your library.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After I play for awhile, it turns into white blank...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The old Hotel Giant now comes with a new, fresh face: Hotel Giant 2. Works perfectly on Win10, although sometimes the music is stuck on one title only. Definitely brings back the ol' good memory. If you're searching for a good, simulation game, then buy this immediately
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For game dev'ers and supporters, HD is perfect, but mouse work not correctly, if you trying to hold/remove/set/move any object/place OUT of defailt (1024*768) radius, this means if your mouse went to 1025*769, it won't place any objects there...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the original Hotel Giant for hours on end as a child and I adored the game. This game has improved on every single feature. Good Stuff - 1. By the looks of things the black screen and the glowing screen problems have been fixed 2. Lots of different strategies to choose from 3. Choose what sort of hotel you want to build - You can build a crappy ♥♥♥♥ hole like London or a stylish, luxurious, beautiful place like Oslo. Bad Stuff - 1. Guests always have complaints. You can do…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →horrible concept --- stay away
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotel Giant 2 is an ambitious and detail-heavy management simulator developed by Enlight Software Limited and PerspectX, and published by Toplitz Productions, that attempts to place players in full control of every aspect of running a high-end hotel business. Rather than simplifying hospitality management into abstract systems, the game leans hard into granular realism, asking players to think like architects, interior designers, human resource managers, marketers, and financial planners all at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't even bother with this game. I followed Red's instructions to make it run, it wont work (not blaming them, I blame the bozo's who made this game). If I can run older games, then this should be a walk in the park. There should be an achievement for getting this game to run.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BROKEN GAME - DO NOT BUY - I'm glad I paid $1.50 on GamersGate rather than the extra $.49 that Steam was charging. My bro is IT cert and even tho Idk diddly about making stuff work, it's his job to know. He worked on this far beyond any advice given on forums. This game is straight up broken. WHY U SELLING THIS STEAM? IT'S BROKEN.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ignore older reviews. Enlight took over this game and fixed it. It is a good game now. Also check out Enlights home page for capitaliztion lab. they have a good thing going with sim games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, I tried it. 10 minutes later, I asked for a refund, and here is why: To begin, the white screen reported by other people can be removed through the option screen. Apparently there is an Exterior Glow setting (or something to that effect) and it is either on or off (It has a Low, Medium, and High setting, but there is no difference between them). Why that option exists is unknown because the exterior view just shows you the outside of the hotel, so looking at the outside is sorta pointless.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game worked once for me and then decided that every time it loads it freezes before even getting to the main menu. The game doesn't let you uninstall and then reinstall. It makes you waste your data and download it again. Not happy and sick of games like this on steam that don't work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the original Hotel Giant ten years ago for dozens of hours. It was very fun to decorate and have 100% satisfaction in all rooms and make thousands of dollars to make more hotels. This game is pretty much the same with a few new additions, and it delivers the same experience but with full compatibility with Windows 10 and full HD. I recommend this game because I loved then and I still love it. This a budget game thought, so it's pretty basic and doesnt provide much of a challenge. Is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible game! I was expecting Sandbox to have unlimited cash but nope. I was hoping it to be like Rollercoaster Tycoon. You run out of cash very quick and there's no cheats for this game. Don't buy it it's a waste of $$$
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've looked everywhere for a good hotel management game and this is not that. I bought this game because of the low price and immediatly regretted it. This game is just too old, the controls make no sense (and there is no way to change them in settings). There are limited assets (at least limited good ones) and it crashes frequently. Unfortunately It has been more than 2 weeks so I can't refund it but it doesn't really matter since it was only a couple bucks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not a drill. There are no giants in this game. I seriously cannot express my disappointment to you all. What a waste of my f***ing time and money. I bet there aren't even giants in Hotel Giant 1 either. Never forgive you for this Enlight Software Limited.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →love this game!
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