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Space Hotel Ltd

A relaxed 3D tycoon game about building space hotels one module at a time. Check-in is in orbit.

Watch the trailer Play the 2D original free on itch.io Discord Read the sources behind it

The free version on itch.io is the original 2D game, for the browser and Windows. The 3D game on Steam is a full remake and plays differently.

About the game

Guests book a stay, ride your rocket to orbit, spend a few nights and pay. You handle everything in between: the launch, the life support, the room service and the ride home. You own the spaceport, the rockets and the rooms.

Start with one company, one launch pad and a home site in Florida or at Tanegashima. Grow from a single module in low orbit to hotels around the Moon, Mars and Saturn, at your own pace: pause, speed up, or just watch.

One continuous view from the launch pad to the whole solar system, at one-tenth scale, with real launch sites and day and night set by the real Sun.
Every booking flies on a rocket you can see stacked, fuelled and launched, from a small two-seater up to heavy lifters and a spaceplane.
Build out from one module into corridors, wings, a docking hub and a spinning gravity ring, and look inside any hull in X-ray.
Gyms, labs, observatories, lounges with a view of Earth, a spa, a galley and a greenhouse.
Guests of different kinds, with their own tastes and reviews; crew who need rest, food and company.
Oxygen, water, food and power to keep flowing. Run short and guests are evacuated and money is lost, but no one dies.

One flight, start to finish, in a single unbroken shot: from the launch pad to docking at the hotel.

One seamless zoom

The camera never cuts. Start on a rocket standing on the pad, pull back to the whole globe, keep going out to the entire solar system, then dive back in to rendezvous and dock with your hotel.

The solar system is built at one-tenth real size, with real launch sites, and day and night follow the real Sun. Low orbit really is up there, and Saturn really is far away.

The whole solar system seen from far above, with the orbits of the planets drawn as rings around the Sun.

Launch day

Every booking gets its own rocket. It is stacked in your assembly hall, rolls out to the pad and gets fuelled while your guests ride a van out to the tower and take the elevator up to the capsule. Then the countdown, and liftoff over the coast.

Watch the whole flight or let it run in the background. Research takes your fleet from a small two-seat craft to heavy lifters and a spaceplane.

A rocket climbing high above a green coastline and blue sea.

Hotels you can look inside

Hotels are built from modules that dock together: start with one, then add corridors, wings, a docking hub and a gravity ring. Zoom in and the hull turns to X-ray, so you can see the rooms and the people in them.

Fit them out with gyms, labs and observatories, lounges with a view of Earth, a spa, a galley and a greenhouse. In zero gravity your guests float; on a gravity ring they walk; on the Moon they bounce.

A station over Earth with its hull cut away to show furnished rooms inside the modules.

Guests walking along the curved floor inside a spinning gravity ring.

Guests and crew

Guests come in different types, with their own tastes, and they leave reviews. Crew need rest, food and company to keep working.

The people are deliberately simple: cute rubber-hose “noodle” figures, crew in role colors and guests in their own outfits, from sun hats and cameras to VIP top hats.

A row of round-headed cartoon figures: crew in uniforms and guests in a sun hat and a top hat.

Keep everyone breathing

Every hotel uses oxygen, water, food and power. Greenhouses and recyclers close part of the loop, and supply rockets fill the rest. If something runs out, guests are distressed, then evacuated, and you lose the income, but no one dies. Your other hotels keep running while you sort it out.

Space Hotel Ltd began as a 2D management game. The floating glass interface, bookings and reviews, life support, contracts and the R&D schematics tree all carry over into the remake, and every model you see is generated in code: planets, stations, rockets and people alike.

The game screen at the spaceport, with a launch tower on the pad and the game's panels around the edges.

The R&D schematics screen, showing a labeled drawing of a Mercury-Atlas rocket.

Grow the company

Contracts and satellite launches pay for expansion; research unlocks bigger rockets. The spaceport grows too, with a second pad, Mission Control and a rocket assembly hall. Then on to higher orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

A capsule docked at the end of a long station module, above the clouds.

Facts

Setting: Earth orbit and the solar system
Genre: Space tycoon and management sim
Platforms: Windows (Steam)
Developer: Hearth Interactive

From the library: Checking In

How strangers became paying guests and shoppers, in the words of the people who ran the inns, sailed on the first pleasure cruises, built the first grand hotels and stores, and lived in the first space station. A companion to Reaching Space, and the sources behind the hotel side of Space Hotel Ltd.

A bad night at the inn on the road to BrundisiumHorace, 37 BCE, in LatinEgressum magna me accepit Aricia Roma hospitio modico; rhetor comes Heliodorus, Graecorum longe doctissimus; inde forum Appi, differtum nautis, cauponibus atque malignis. hoc iter …
Receive every guest as ChristBenedict, 530–547, in LatinOmnes supervenientes hospites tamquam Christus suscipiantur, quia ipse dicturus est: ‘Hospis fui, et suscepistis me’; et omnibus congruus honor exhibeatur, maxime domesticis fidei …
The Great Khan's post housesMarco Polo, 1271–1295, in Franco-ItalianOr sachiés por vérité qe de ceste vile de Canbalu se partent montes voies lesquel vont por maintes provences, ce est à dire qe le une vait à tel provinces, et ceste à tel, et toute…
Taking the waters at BathFiennes, 1680–1702, in EnglishThe wayes to the bath are all difficult, the town lyes Low in a bottom and its steep ascents all wayes out of the town. The houses are indifferent, the streetes of a good size well…
On restaurants, Paris, 1825Brillat-Savarin, 1770–1825, in French137. — Un restaurateur est celui dont le commerce consiste à offrir au public un festin toujours prêt, et dont les mets se détaillent en portions à prix fixe, sur la demande des co…
The Rooms of the Tremont HouseEliot, 1829–1830, in EnglishA spacious and convenient Hotel, in a central and healthy situation, had been considered, for many years previous to the erection of Tremont House, a most desirable addition to the…
A free ticket on the first pleasure cruiseThackeray, 1844, in EnglishOn the 24th of July, 1844, the writer of this little book went to dine at the Club, quite unconscious of the wonderful events which Fate had in store for him. Mr. William was there…
The Program of the Grand Pleasure ExcursionTwain, 1867, in EnglishFor months the great Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers every where in America, and discussed at countless firesides. It was a novel…
Opening day of the great saleZola, 1864, in FrenchCe lundi-là, le dix octobre, un clair soleil de victoire perça les nuées grises, qui depuis une semaine assombrissaient Paris. Toute la nuit encore, il avait bruiné, une poussière …

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