Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 10:42 am
Idle Ghost Hotel – Casual Game Review
Idle Ghost Hotel is a Casual/Simulation/Entertainment game from 4th May Games Inc., first launched in 23rd October 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,779+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Ghost Hotel Stand Out
Ready to open your own ghost hotel?
These ghostly guests are anything but ordinary! With their unique tastes and demands, they’ll be having a blast at your hotel—relaxing in the hot springs, working up a sweat in the fitness center, or dancing the night away in the ballroom. Meet their needs, and watch the tips roll in! As word spreads, your hotel will become the place to be, and the more guests you attract, the faster your profits soar!
Expand & Upgrade Your Hotel
Build upwards and unlock more luxurious rooms and exclusive amenities as you go! Each new floor adds style and sophistication that your ghostly guests will love. Open up all the floors and pack your hotel full! Keep building until your hotel is bustling with activity!
Hire Managers & Automate
Say goodbye to stress once you hire managers! They'll handle the guests' needs, so you can focus on expanding and strategizing. Experience the joy of a self-running hotel!
Cook Up New Dishes
Become a master chef for your ghostly guests! Combine dishes to discover new recipes, and whip up a variety of meals to boost satisfaction. More happy guests mean bigger rewards! Get cooking, and watch those profits explode!
Craft & Customize
Create unique items to make your hotel stand out! Design special experiences for each room and facility, so your ghost guests will never want to leave. Boost your hotel's quality to keep your guests' satisfaction sky-high!
Special Events & Rewards
Join the action on Zombie Island, where special events offer precious gems and awesome rewards. The higher your score, the better the rewards! Ghost guests are lining up, so dive in!
Open New Hotel Chains
Open new hotel chains on the Witch’s Island and beyond! Each hotel has its own unique theme and facilities, waiting for you to explore. Build your empire and become the ultimate hotel tycoon!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Ghost Hotel is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Hello! A small update is here.
We’ve made improvements to keep things running smoothly.
- Minor issues resolved.
- UI/UX adjustments for a better feel.
Download & Availability
Idle Ghost Hotel is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Ghost Hotel on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great art, but the app seems extremely stretched out and squished when played on ipad to fit the screen. Id rather the game not fully fit the ipad screen than be squished like this, it bothers us quite a bit and makes it difficult to play.
Im AuDHD and found this cute game, we use the tapping to stim heh. Very cute and fun game, barely any ads and they ask politely before showing any.
We love this game! Its a cozy halloween game that has no adds and works offline. We wont give out any spoilers. But, if you would like to know what will happen play for yourself. And, you will be immediately addicted.(In a good way obviously).
Cute game and not too many ads. Our kids like it too.
We love the cute ghosts and it makes us want to watch all the ghostbuster movies and tv series.
Definitely recommend this game if you like ghosts, so what you do is work in a hotel and ghosts come to visit and you get ghost workers to help out with the work but still good game.
Not money motivated at all. Lets you watch ads for extra boosts, and youre able to progress without any purchases, and theres a lot of aspects of the game that keep you entertained. Im not someone who writes reviews normally, but this is some of the most fun Ive had playing an idle game. There are no actual ads within the game, and the art style is super cute. Honestly, one of our favorite mobile games in general.
We love games like these, where you have to keep upgrading and merge and tap to actually upgrade, not to mention the adorable little ghosts! Another thing we like is that it doesnt have that many ads, the only ads we have gotten from this game have been for getting rewards – thats it. The only thing we will say is that the game is a little confusing on how to play, we get that just of it, but some of the things we feel like you couldve explained better. But overall, this game is great.
Costs a lot for a little phone game. Fun for a little bit until it becomes unplayable. Ive paid less for a full game. We wish more games were about earning instead of greed.
Cant get to level 7 on Ghost Vacation (Weekend Hotel). It wont let us open a room unless a we upgrade and we cant upgrade unless we open a room and hire two more managers. So whats the solution here.
We have stuff addicted in fridge and on the plates and it keeps saying they are coming but they never do! We cant even level up to level 9 due to this bug.
The game was good at first but lost interest a day later. We were not sure what the objective was.
We thought this game would be good but cats seriously cats we hate this game.
So Ive only started playing about an hour ago and Im unable to get to lvl 5. Seems simple enough, all we needed to do was have the rooms cleaned 3 times. However, there are no ghosts checking in to the rooms? We think it might be a bug, Im not entirely sure. Ive tried to just redownload the game but nothing different has happened. Then we thought, Oh, maybe we just need to unlock the next ghost. We cant do that unless Ive Maintained hotel lvl 5 or higher. Is there something Im doing wrong? Ive deleted the game but would like to come back to it, we just cant figure out this bug.
This game is so cute and relaxing it really is our favorite game.
We really like this game is very different almost 1,000,000 other games that Ive tried. This game actually keeps us entertained and we like the uniqueness of it.
We have played the game for a little bit but we now cant progress of the cooking. We sold all of our cooking before we opened the fridge and now we cant put anything in the fridge. Therefore we cant progress because the only button that works on the bottom bar is the cook button. We hope this gets fixed soon because the game is very good.
Has some bugs but support is quick to help you work through it. This is a great game.
Current price is slightly too high for us, but that could be bc im put off by the number of ads in the free-play version. We enjoy the game a lot! We also havent played for very long.
Started playing this today and we must say we find all the characters and ghosts adorable. Im enjoying the game so far. :].
This game is super cute, extremely playable once you buy to get rid of ads. Our only complaint is that it feels more like a merge game than a tap game, which really isnt what we signed up for. In the later levels, Im spending more time cooking than enjoying the fruits of our labor (watching the hotel play out). Upgrading the cooking can do so much to make it less monotonous. Sadly, you have to invest in cooking to add more floors so youre forced to spend way too much time making cookies into cupcakes into ice cream etc. Edit: Im docking more stars based on how tedious the merging is and its clear they want you to use all your gems and buy gems to make the cooking less tedious. The upgrades are insanely expensive and it only make it progress a little bit. We want to use our gems on our hotels, not the forced, boring, merging mini game. At least lower the amount of recipes. Set us free from the sluggish, unenjoyable merging that takes away our time from our cute hotels. PLEASE.
We have stopped playing this game but not because its bad, we just wasnt interested anymore. Overall the gameplay is nice, its fun and easy going. We like how you can cook and do everything with the hotel yourself. We also like that you can play a mini game for coins and expand to different hotels with different people. Its very rewarding, you dont have to worry about paying real money to win/finish this game. Also absolutely in love with the art style and the characters, although we did not like how the overall setup was (like where the managers, Hotel, cook buttons are) it just seemed a little messy and we were often confused even after we played the game for a while so condensing some of those areas would help make the game more clean and organized. Other than that great idle game.
There are a lot of cute tycoon games out there and a lot of them would have good art style but not gaming experience. This one runs smoothly, the game design is efficient and user friendly. We expect to be obsessed with it for a while.
Great game really cute but we wish there was more interaction with the ghosts like mabye be able to dress them or or decorate the room how we like.
The game is fun at first but a little money hungry its almost like your regular idle game. It has a few extra things in there which makes the game fun like the cooking craft mode but its crazy that in order to increase the speed or revenue at the front desk. You have to pay actual money for it. Everything ranges from 599 to 1099 for regular upgrades that you would have in an idle game.
We really like the idea of this game, we think its cute. The problem is that we cant even collect the gold that Im supposed to for the tutorial so we can continue on with the game. Ive exited the game and restarted it about three times now, and we are still stuck on trying to collect the gold in the tutorial.
We just downloaded and we cant get past the tutorial it wont allow us to collect gold out if the jar so we cant continue the tutorial.
Cant even get past the forced tutorial.
Ive tried 4 times. During the introduction, it wont let us collect money from the spa. Its too bad, it looks like a cute game.
This game is amazing, it cures our boredom very well.
This is a amazing game super cute! But on our iPad it keeps kicking us out.
We like this soooo much but the problem is that there is a bit much of ads and that little bit just ANNOYS us! But overall its really good.
Ngl really fun and cute game! We love the tiny ghosts.
Its such a great game! We love playing it everyday getting daily rewards, getting a whole jar of tips, and a lot of fun in general. We recommend this app for a new download to people who like games like Cat Game or Dog Game its very alike the three apps. We have no worries to really, anything.
Its rare to fine an idle game these days that isnt a sloppy cash grab. Ive come to put up with them. But for once, these developers care about this game. The art and humor is adorable and macabre at the same time. Gameplay is fun. We feel like we got our moneys worth when buying no ads (we want this dev to have our money!). We happily recommend this game as a cut above the rest.
We just got tired of all the bad granmar to even play.
Despite poor translation, it's a great game! Ads are mostly optional, art style is adorable.
We feel like this is a really well made super cute idle game and we are obsessed with it already.
Pretty decent game not riddled with ads.
This is a very cute and relaxing game.
We love the art of the game its so cute and its honestly such a good game compared to mosts. The only part that bugs the heck out of us is that their are no music or sound well technically there is but its so quiet even with the settings of the game the sounds is literally non existence at all. Please fix this otherwise such a good game.
We love this game, but the only reason Im unable to give it the full five stars is because of some issues with the cooking mechanic of the game. For one, Id suggest being able to take some of the extra food out of the fridge, something Ive seen used with other games that involve merging items together. It would make the process of discovering new levels go more quickly. For two, Ive realized that, at a certain point, you will be unable to continue merging as there are only 12 slots available but more than 12 levels.
First off, good job to the developer because a lot of the content is fun and makes us smile. Ive been playing for a few weeks and kept going to see cute new ghosts and items. But progress hit a wall all of a sudden and has barely moved for more than a week. Its an idle game, we get it, but maybe there needs to be a smoother feel to increasing levels on floors or food? Also the multiplier when leveling up a floor isnt clear to us. When it says 256x or 512x, what is the base value being multipled? At lower levels, going up 8x income adds up. At higher levels, Im seeing 256x income and go from 1e to 2e. That makes no sense to us. We had planned to buy the no ads and gems pack but then realized 1000 gems would last us 2 upgrades at best. It feels like bigger and bigger costs sunk in for minimal return.
We just got this game but we love it. It is one of the best idle games ive ever played. It is so cute and the music is a nice touch. We will definitely be playing this a lot.
This game is very fun and cute but there is one small problem. Once you unlock chain hotels there is no obvious way to exit back to the main hotel. Exiting the app also does not send you back so we are unsure how you are meant to get back to the main hotel.
We absolutely love this game! Cute to boot and you can tell a lot of time/love went into this game. The best part is you can tell the developers truly focus on the players experience. However we have ran into a few bugs which is why Im giving it a 4 out of 5. More often than not the game will glitch and freeze on the offline rewards banner and you will completely lose your reward. Ive also had problems with crashes. Nothing that cant be fixed in the future with a simple update though and at the end of the day its a wonderful ~spooky~ experience and Im excited to see what the developers have up their sleeves! :).
Its a cute game that Ive enjoyed so far but for some reason we cant listen to anything else while we play. Even when we have the game on mute it turns off our podcasts and music as soon as we open the app.
We just got the game because it looks very cute and fun. The sound though does not work with our apple ear pods. We have never run into this before. If you can fix please then we can hopefully play what looks like a spooktacular game. Thank you.
We cant listen to our podcast while playing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.8.0
- Size: 225.44 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, KO, TH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: 4th May Games Inc.
Last updated: 14th October 2025 | Genre: Casual, Simulation | Developer: 4th May Games Inc.