A FREE HOTEL MANAGEMENT GAME ABOUT THE TRAVEL BUSINESS
Run the world’s most beloved hotel-booking empire.*
OVERBOOKED is a free hotel management game with one twist: you don’t run the hotels. You are the new CEO of Lucifare, the booking site every hotel has to be on. Hotels have the rooms. Guests have the money. You have the screen where they find each other, and the screen takes a cut. The Board wants a bigger cut every quarter. The hotels want mercy. The guests want the price on the first screen to be the price. You can pick one. Quarterly.
A career to lose.
How a quarter goes
The whole game, in the time it takes the Board to clear its throat.
Take a cut
Hotels pay you a share of every booking. The slider goes to 30%. Randall’s blood pressure goes further.
Add a fee
Show it on the first screen, or reveal it at checkout. Guests notice one of these. Commissioner Brandt notices the other.
Face the Board
Every quarter, Chadwick names a number. Miss it twice and the next meeting is about you. Hit it, and next quarter’s number is bigger.
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.
Looks adorable. Isn’t.
Hand-drawn dioramas, forty little employees, and a share price that watches you sleep.
The people you’ll disappoint
A hand-drawn cast with feelings, lawyers, and in one case a wheel.
Randall Stilton IV
Owns the Grand Stilton, a windbreaker, and one long fuse. The windbreaker has never been a bluff.
Rosa Fiorelli
Runs six rooms with her own two hands. Does not own a rat. Ask her about it. Go on.
Commissioner Brandt
Chooses font sizes the way others choose weapons. Currently reviewing your everything.
The Board
Seven advisors, one sentence: “The number, please.”
Trevor
41 cozy artisanal lofts. One building. Zero former tenants reachable for comment.
Aldo
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.
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.
Reviews, from inside the game
Our cast was asked for comment. Legal approved these.
A hotel management game, from the other side of the desk
Most hotel tycoon games hand you a lobby and a paint bucket. This one hands you the website the lobby depends on.
Hotel tycoon, minus the hotel
In OVERBOOKED you don’t build rooms, hire bellhops or choose the carpet. You run Lucifare, the online travel agency every hotel on earth has to be listed on, and you manage those hotels the way the industry actually does: with a commission slider, a parity clause and a fee that appears at the last click. It is a hotel management game in the way a landlord manages a neighbourhood.
A business simulation that argues back
Under the jokes is a real simulation. Commission, drip pricing, payout delays, review gardening and lobbying all feed four meters: partner patience, guest trust, regulatory heat and Board confidence. Push one and the other three answer. Thirty-one crises arrive on a timer, each with three defensible options, and eight endings wait at the bottom, seven of them redacted.
A browser game: no download, no signup
It is one page. It runs on a phone, a tablet or a desktop, loads in seconds and asks for nothing: no install, no account, no email address. A first career takes ten to fifteen minutes and ends, usually, with a card from the Board.
Seven languages, one Board
The game and this page are in English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, German and Russian. Chadwick wants a number in all of them.
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.
Is OVERBOOKED a hotel management game?
Yes, from the other side of the desk. You don’t run a hotel; you run the booking site every hotel has to be on, and you manage them the way the industry does: with a commission slider and a fee they see at the last click.
Can I play this hotel tycoon game without downloading anything?
Yes. It is a browser game: one page, no install, no account. It runs on a phone, a tablet or a desktop.
How long does a game take?
A first career usually lasts ten to fifteen minutes and ends around Q17 with a card from the Board. The early quarters are slow on purpose, and you can pause whenever you need to think.
Is it a simulation or a satire?
Both. The economics are a real simulation: commission, fees, trust and regulatory heat all interact, and every ethical toggle works exactly as labeled. The tone is satire, because the real numbers were already ridiculous.
Which languages is the game in?
English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, German and Russian. The game and this page switch with the picker at the top; your choice is remembered.
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.