Resortopia - Charming Resort Builder

The narrative commences at a somewhat old, dilapidated resort where Udon is fretting about its operation. As the resort manager, what steps will you take to assist Udon in refurbishing it? Embrace your creativity and let your imagination soar! Engage in do-it-yourself projects to revamp various rooms. Experiment by blending different furniture styles. Transform the resort into a Japanese-style hot spring retreat or an opulent European-style baroque chamber. Host pink dessert extravaganzas whenever and wherever you please! Unleash your ingenuity to shape the resort into your patrons' ultimate home away from home.

Nonetheless, complications are bound to arise. Guests often present an array of peculiar requests. How will you manage individuals with distinct personalities? Will you offer aid when guests are in need? When conversing with them, anticipate either pleasant surprises or unforeseen crises. Join forces with Udon to accumulate Cookies, craft your distinctive tale, and construct your very own 5-star resort!

Resortopia Guide: Tips, Tricks and Strategies

Getting Started

The lounge will be the first room to be unlocked in this game. Your first guest will be the Red Riding Hood. Because this is a resort simulation game, comfort should be your priority for guests, which is why you should be setting up beds in the lounge. Visitors will arrive at the lounge, sleep on the bed and pay cookies after a nice day’s/night’s rest. The more visitors you have, the higher your income. Cookies are in-game currency and the total number of cookies is displayed on the upper-left corner of the screen.

To set up beds, go inside the lounge and tap on the yellow helmet icon on the bottom right corner of the screen to access “Facilities”. This is where you can purchase new furnishings apart from beds. Furnishings are categorized under Beds, Cabinets, Massage Chairs, Welcome Area, Entertainment Area, Sofa, Vending Machines etc. You can purchase them using the cookies earned from guests.

The first bed is free to set up. Once you start earning cookies from your first bed (guests will leave cookies after sleeping on bed), start building other beds. Under facilities, scroll down to find all “Bed” categories. Build all “Basic Beds” in each category since they are cheaper than other beds in the same category. For example, under Facilities > Bed No. 2, the first set of Basic Beds costs only 5 cookies whereas the next set of beds (“Soft Beds”) in the same category costs 3600 cookies. There are four bed categories.

You might be thinking why beds when there are other facilities that can also generate income? Of course, you should also build those. In fact, the next facility you will be placing in the lounge is the entryway cabinet in the tutorial game mode. Beds should be your priority because guests will always pay cookies immediately after resting on them and the more beds you have, the more cookies you will earn. Having more beds will also avoid unwanted queues. You really don’t want visitors waiting for their turn to sleep after attracting a lot of them to your resort.

Now that you have at least 2 sets of beds, the next step would be to attract more visitors. The more guests you have, the higher will be your income. Outside the building, tap on those cute cookie people strolling the street. When you tap on a cookie man, the green bar above him should fill up to reveal the mystery guest. Keep tapping on a cookie man to reveal the guest and only then you can attract him/her to your resort.

Tapping on cookie men consumes energy (displayed as neon blue lightning icon). The max energy is 50. The energy count is shown in the reception/front desk where Udon sits outside the resort. Every time you tap on a cookie man, you consume some energy. Energy refills over time as shown by the yellow bar underneath the front desk.  

Total energy displayed below Udon, in the front desk

Don’t forget to tap on cookies in the lounge to collect them. Once you have enough cookies earned from visitors, you can start placing new facilities. Tap on the yellow helmet icon inside the lounge to place facilities. Always read the description before purchasing a new facility. Certain furniture enables passive cookie earnings, which we will explain in detail in the next few sections of this guide. Expand Table of Contents in this article to get a complete list of sections.

As you attract more and more guests, you will unlock new visitors that will tip for your services. Tapping on cookie men will unlock them. The first special guest will be “Uncle Hammer”. He will pay maximum 13 cookie as tip after he finishes his stay in your resort. When you unlock him, Uncle Hammer’s portrait will appear on the screen. Tap on the details button to know more about him.

Every time a new guest unlocks, a large portrait will pop up on the screen. Tap on the details to know more about the new guest, including the tip he/she will provide under “Guest Characteristics”.

Guests are unique in their appearance and the bonuses they grant. Continue tapping on cookie men to unlock them. Guests are also categorized under Basic, Bonze, Silver and Gold rarity. Basic guests are the most common guest and Gold category are rare guests. In the beginning you will unlock basic guests and as you progress through the game, you will see higher rarity guests appearing in the later stages as you keep renovating the resort and clicking on cookie men to attract visitors. To get a list of unlocked guests, tap on the postage stamp icon below settings (cog) on the upper-right corner of the screen. Here all guests that you have unlocked so far will be displayed based on their rarity.

When you unlock a new guest for the first time you will receive a “greeting gift” from him/her. To claim the gift, tap on the postage stamp icon, below the cog icon (settings) on the upper-right corner of the screen and tap on the gift box icon on the new guest’s portrait to claim your rewards. When a new guest unlocks, a small red dot appears on the postage stamp icon, suggesting rewards are available.

You can forge a strong bond with unique guests, such as Uncle Hammer, by providing certain items as and when they need. Earn hearts from them and increase their friendship level to boost tips from these unique guests and get bonus rewards. More on special guests and friendships later.

After the short tutorial ends, make sure you complete all Pineapple (the picture frame ghost cat) quests. Tap on Pineapple’s icon on the lower-right corner of the screen to access “Pineapple’s Wish”. Complete all quests under his wishes one by one to earn cookie rewards.

At the top-left side corner of the home screen, you will find:

A. Cookies: The primary currency of this game. You will earn cookies from guests who visit your resort. You can purchase furniture and other items using cookies and place them in the lounge and other rooms to increase your services for visitors and in turn earn more cookies from these items. The total number of cookies is displayed on the upper-left corner of the screen.

B. Red Candles: They denote the total popularity of your resort. Popularity is useful to unlock new rooms, cleaning/repairing the resort and unlocking new in-game features. Placing new furniture in the lounge and other rooms increases popularity. Before placing new furniture, pay attention to the popularity points (PP) it grants once placing it in the lounge. Please note that the PP you gain from placing a furniture is one-time and not recurring or passive. This applies to most facilities.

C. Candies: These bluish purple wrapped candies are used to upgrade certain features under “Resort Attributes” in the build menu. So if you want to increase the storage space of the tip jar, you can use 5 candies to increase the tips cap from 50 to 450.  You can obtain candies by completing tasks or from the 7-day login rewards. Play the game every day to get your login rewards at the beginning of a new day for seven days. You will get candies on day 1 and day 3. You can also earn candies from curry’s adventure.

Get candies as seven day sign in bonus

D. Pinwheel: The rainbow pinwheel is used to purchase skipping scissors. Can be obtained from the shop. Once unlocked, tap the yellow shopping bag icon on the bottom of the screen to open the Shop page. You can obtain 10 pinwheels for free every day (check the screenshot below):

Get 10 pinwheels daily and use them to purchase skipping scissors. You can then use scissors to refill chef's energy at the restaurant.

Once you have collected 60 pinwheels, use them to obtain 5 skipping scissors. You can then use scissors at the restaurant to refill the chef’s energy.

Facilities and Bonuses

The lounge is the first room where you will be placing new facilities for guests to earn a lot of cookies. As you collect more cookies and progress through the game, you will unlock new rooms in this game.

The lounge is located on the lower-left corner of the resort. Enter this room and tap on the yellow helmet icon on the bottom-right corner of the screen. You will see a list of items under “Facilities”.

Each facility/furniture item provides certain bonuses that will help you earn cookies and popularity. You can view those bonuses by tapping on a facility. You will obtain these bonuses once you purchase/place them in a room.

For example: When you purchase the basic bed under “Bed No. 1”, you will receive a one-time bonus of +2 cookies and +2 popularity after placing it in the lounge.

However, certain facilities ensure recurrent cookie earnings every minute. They provide passive in-game income. Invest your hard-earned cookies in such facilities.

Examples of such facilities are:

Entryway Cabinets: You will obtain a certain number of cookies every minute. If you place the Wood Entryway Cabinet in the lounge room, you will earn 2 cookies per minute. Cookies earned per minute will be added to your total cookies displayed on the top-left corner of the screen.

As you progress, build better quality and more stylish entryway cabinet which will replace your current cabinet. Not only are they aesthetically pleasing, but also grant more cookies every minute. Once you purchase the beautiful Japanese Entryway Cabinet for 3800 cookies, you will start earning +4 cookies per minute. Advanced furniture items of the same type, whether bed or entryway cabinet, will always cost more but provide great bonuses to increase income and popularity.

Note: The Sofa section under Facilities also provide regular income in the form of cookies per minute. You should also consider adding sofas in the lounge to increase the number cookies earned per minute.

“Welcome Area” Furniture: These are umbrella stands, slipper racks ottoman etc. They look so beautiful when placed at the entryway in the lounge. Each welcome area furniture looks more gorgeous than the other, but also costs more cookies. The first item will be Daruma Doll. When you place it in the lounge, you will obtain +3 cookies per minute.

Tip: Just like welcome area facilities, entertainment area facilities also let you earn a certain number of cookies per month. All you have to do is purchase/unlock them using cookies and see your earnings increase. Facilities under “Tea Break Area” also provide similar bonuses once you unlock them.  

Massage Chairs: It’s all about providing the best services to guests and so you will be needing massage chairs. A massage chair not only lets you earn a certain amount of cookies every minute, but also lets you earn cookies every time a guest uses it. Yes, there will be facilities like massage chairs that can be used by guests and they will pay you cookies every time they use these items. The first items – Clearance Massage Chair, provides a passive income of +1 cookie per minute and also provides +4 cookies each time a guest uses it. As you progress and earn more cookies, unlock advanced massage chairs to increase passive as well as usage income.

Washers: They will allow you to earn cookies purely on usage basis. You will obtain cookies only when a guest uses a washer for laundry.

Vending Machines: The best way to rake in cookies every 30 seconds is to build a vending machine. Its bonus offering is different from the rest of the facilities. Once you build one, it will drop cookies at regular intervals. The basic vending machine will drop 6 cookies every 30 seconds. Make sure you tap on cookies around a vending machine to collect it. Build better quality vending machines to increase the drop rate of cookies every thirty seconds.

Beds: While beds don’t provide recurrent cooking earnings, they do increase guest’s comfort. Except the first basic bed, all bed types increase the resting efficiency of guests by a certain percentage, thereby increasing your income as guests will pay more cookies if they sleep on ultra-comfy beds, such as the soft bed, marshmallow bed, spring bed etc. 

Note: Most of the lounge facilities grant one-time popularity points. This means that you will obtain popularity only once when you unlock a facility.