I think one of the nicest feelings in gaming is coming back to a game you used to play and realizing how much love has been poured into it while you were away 🥹
Because returning to
@_HotelArchitect after watching it grow through Early Access genuinely gave me that feeling. There is something really special about feeling nostalgic over your old experience while also getting excited over how much bigger and more polished everything has become now.
I mean, I had already spent over 100 hours in the game before this and successfully opened hotel branches across five different countries already (which I know makes me sound like a real hotel manager for a moment there, but friendly reminder that this is still just a virtual hotel), so naturally I came back feeling like a very experienced hotel manager 🏨
But somehow the moment I came back, I was immediately back to feeling like a first-day hotel manager again, because half of my time has just been spent discovering new features and reacting with a mix of confusion, shock, and excitement at everything.
Like, what do you mean I can now choose how difficult my hotel management experience is going to be???
And apparently there are more locations now too???
Meanwhile I was still trying to process the fact that couples can now visit my hotel together 😭
As if dealing with one disastrous guest was not already enough, now they can arrive in pairs and potentially ruin my life (and my hotel) together.
But jokes aside, I genuinely do love all these new improvements and features, not to mention the new title screen that managed to make me sit there staring at it for over 10 minutes feeling emotional over how far the game has come 🥹
And of course, seeing everything that has been added and improved since the last time I played immediately made me want to spend another 100 hours in the game, while the new difficulty options awakened something deeply concerning in me that made me happily choose the hardest settings possible.
So yeah, safe to say I am once again emotionally attached to my completely virtual hotel business.
And if you want to watch me slowly descend back into hotel management chaos, my first video back with the game is already up in the replies, kindly sponsored by
@WiredP , with me rediscovering everything, walking down memory lane, and immediately embarrassing myself by mistaking the staff hiring section for a staff list 😆
Which honestly might just be even more proof that I still need to dedicate another unhealthy amount of hours to this game, and after seeing how much love has been poured into it over all these years, I think that is the least I can do 🏨
#HotelArchitect