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A FREE BROWSER GAME ABOUT THE TRAVEL BUSINESS

Run the world’s most beloved travel empire.*

*Source: our homepage.

OVERBOOKED is a free tycoon game about the travel business. Grow a tiny startup called Lucifare into the platform every hotel on earth is thrilled† to work with. The Board wants the number to go up. The hotels want mercy. The guests want the price on the first screen to be the price. You can pick one. Quarterly.

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A career to lose.
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OVERBOOKED gameplay: the Lucifare boardroom on Floor 6.66

It’s just good business.

A management game where every decision is reasonable, defensible, and stamped INTERNAL / URGENT.

A slider that goes to 30%

Set your Partnership Contribution™ and watch the partners contribute. Mostly opinions.

Meet The Board

Seven identical advisors who love you exactly as much as last quarter. Miss the target twice and learn what your chair is bolted to.

Fees, beautifully arranged

Drip pricing. Facilitation surcharges. A checkout flow with the pacing of a thriller.

31 crises

Pandemics, bailouts, layoffs, hearings, one hamster. Every option explains its own reasoning, which is worse.

Chadwick wants a number

The board chair now names one target every quarter, out loud, in writing. Hitting it helps. He remembers the ones you didn’t.

Five ways to start

A clean desk, or inherit a collapse at Q17, or reopen after the pandemic, or run the regulated market where commission is capped at 10% — and discover it still works.

Play nice (optional)

Every screen has an ethical toggle, and every one works exactly as labeled. Try them. Watch the Board’s little faces.

8 endings

Fired, sued, immortalized — every run ends, and some end with confetti made of receipts. Seven of the eight start out redacted.

A new board meeting daily

Everyone on earth gets the same crisis calendar each day. Miss one and your streak resets; Chadwick notices either way.

Paperwork worth sharing

Every career ends in a severance memo with your numbers on it, and a verdict naming exactly which decision did it.

Every career ends in a memo.

Your exit paperwork is generated from the run you actually played — the fees you collected, the people you rightsized, the quarters nobody answered the phone — and it names the decision that ended you. One tap to share it.

An OVERBOOKED exit paperwork share card
Not a mockup. This is the file the game hands you on your way out.

Looks adorable. Isn’t.

Hand-drawn dioramas, forty little employees, and a share price that watches you sleep.

HQ boardroom screen
Board meetings on Floor 6.66. No one remembers renumbering it.
Guest checkout screen
Guests love surprises. Especially at checkout.
An INTERNAL / URGENT decision
Decisions arrive pre-stamped. Choose fast; the quarter won’t.

The people you’ll disappoint

A hand-drawn cast with feelings, lawyers, and in one case a wheel.

Randall Stilton IV

Hotelier

Owns the Grand Stilton, a windbreaker, and one long fuse. The windbreaker has never been a bluff.

Rosa Fiorelli

B&B owner

Runs six rooms with her own two hands. Does not own a rat. Ask her about it. Go on.

Commissioner Brandt

Regulator

Chooses font sizes the way others choose weapons. Currently reviewing your everything.

The Board

The Board

Seven advisors, one sentence: “The number, please.”

Trevor

Superhost

41 cozy artisanal lofts. One building. Zero former tenants reachable for comment.

Aldo

Hamster

Innocent in all of this. Five stars.

Eight ways for it to end

Most first careers end around Q17, with a card from the Board. It is a lovely card.

FIRED
REVOLT
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Reviews, from inside the game

Our cast was asked for comment. Legal approved these.

I have been angry for eleven consecutive quarters.— Randall Stilton IV, hotelier
That is a hamster.— Rosa Fiorelli, B&B owner
Strong engagement.— The Board
★★★★★— Aldo, hamster

Frequently asked questions

Asked frequently, answered eventually.

Is it really free?

Yes. The price on the first screen is the price. We are told this is disruptive.

Is this about a real company?

No. Lucifare, Skimr, Xplendia, the cities, the commissioners and the hamster are fictional. Any resemblance to your last booking is, per Legal, “a striking coincidence.”

I keep getting fired.

You cannot exactly lose — you can only be fired at different speeds. Promise the Board less, or the hotels worse. One of these is easier to live with.

Can I win by being good?

Every ethical toggle works exactly as labeled. Flip them all and you will run the most honest travel platform the world has briefly ever seen.

Will it run on my phone?

It was built for your phone: no download, no account, seven languages. Your battery is the only fee.

Who made this?

Tratok — a hospitality ecosystem that connects travellers directly with hotels, restaurants, tours and experiences. “Common Sense Studios” is us in a hat, named after the thing this industry mislaid somewhere around 2011. So yes: this is an ad. It has a hamster in it. There is a longer answer at the bottom of this page, after you have finished laughing.

No, really

Why?

Why would anyone build a game about a company being terrible on purpose, give it away, and put no advertising in it at all? Fair question. Here is the honest answer.

OVERBOOKED was made by Tratok. We are not a games studio. We are a hospitality ecosystem that connects travellers directly with hotels, restaurants, tours and experiences — and the things this game rewards you for doing are the things we work on.

We could have just written the list. Fees that turn up at the last click. Fifteen to thirty percent off every room, every night, forever. Reviews nobody can check. Refunds that arrive whenever. A guest relationship that somehow never belongs to the people who made the bed. You have seen a version of that list before and you do not remember a word of it, which is fair, because a list has never once made anyone feel anything.

So we built the other thing. A game where you cause all of it on purpose, get promoted for it, and are told by a boardroom that you are doing wonderfully. It is free, there is no signup, and it does not mention us once while you are playing.

The same list, the other way up:

  • Hidden fees → every fee shown upfront, blockchain-auditable.
  • Commissions of 15–30% → eliminated.
  • Reviews you cannot verify → every review linked to a verified blockchain transaction.
  • Money held back → smart contracts automate the policies. No frozen funds.
  • No way to reach anyone → friends, messaging and social profiles, built in.

Lucifare is fictional. Skimr is fictional. Villamar, Luxenstein, Randall, Rosa, Commissioner Brandt and the hamster are fictional, and Legal would like that noted twice.

Play the game first — it is the better argument, and it is a much better time. Afterwards, what we actually built is at tratok.net.

We would much rather you laughed first.

The quarter starts now.

The Board is waiting, and the Board does not wait.

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