Hot Springs Story iOS
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Metascore
83 out of 100

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User Score
6.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 12 Ratings

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  • Summary: --Special release sale of 23% off!-- Build and manage the ultimate Japanese hot springs inn in this one-of-a-kind simulation from Kairosoft. Rooms, restaurants, arcades, and baths--position each facility to lull your guests into hot spring Nirvana and skyrocket your establishment to fame! Craft the perfect Japanese garden from lanterns, pine trees, azaleas, and more--you'll need it all if you want to attract VIPs like pop stars and novelists.

    There can only be one #1! Do you have what it takes?

    Turn your device to rotate the screen, touch to scroll, and pinch to zoom in and out.

    Supports iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

    Note: Screen rotation and zoom are only available on iPhone 3GS and later, iPod touch 2nd generation and later, and iPad.

    The game now lets you switch between English and Japanese.
    Try searching for "Kairosoft" to see all of our games.    … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. AppSafari
    Apr 9, 2011
    100
    The game is at once incredibly simple to learn and play, but at the same time, that beautiful Lego-esque state of constant building, destroying, and rebuilding, always searching for that optimal configuration, is so satisfying.
  2. Multiplayer.it
    Mar 24, 2011
    85
    Hot Springs Story brings an extremely deep experience through a simple and intuitive interface, ideal for novices. Obviously the game can soon become repetitive and predicatble, while the setting could not attract many western users, but there are a lot of improvements from Game Dev Story, like the ability to zoom in/out or play in landscape mode.
  3. Eurogamer
    Mar 14, 2011
    70
    What the game lacks, though, is the self-referential humour that made GDS so adorable.
  4. Gamezebo
    May 23, 2011
    40
    This lack of interactivity and interesting things to do really hurts Hot Springs Story.

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  1. LinkaRF
    4
    Disappointingly clunky and boring, especially so since it's from the developers of Game Dev Story, THE best game for iOS I have ever played. Hot Springs' interface is a bit too complicated for the small screens and the mechanics a little too Japanese to be instantly understood like GDS was.… Expand

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