Crimson Hotel

Crimson Hotel is a horror game in which you play as one of four teenagers stranded outside an abandoned hotel after their car breaks down on the way back from a party. You search the hotel for a car battery, a tyre and fuel so you can repair the car and escape. Inside, you discover why the hotel was abandoned.

The hotel’s past

The Crimson Hotel was built on the site of millionaire J. Blackwood’s mansion in the late 1880s. It began as a luxury lodging but did not find success until a renovation in the early 1920s. The hotel entered its golden years in the early 1930s and remained a luxury accommodation staple until a series of accidents involving the Barker family damaged its reputation. The final accident resulted in the deaths of the family’s two children. The hotel declined, closed and was abandoned in 1954.

The children’s deaths were later deemed accidental, but their mother, Jane Barker, had originally been named as the prime suspect and is said never to have reconciled with their loss. Despite the news coverage of the tragedy, what happened to her after her release from custody is unknown.

The figures in the hotel

Urban myths say Jane Barker and her children still haunt the hotel. The boy drowned and the girl died from a poisoning believed to have been airborne. The boy rarely left his mother’s sight and behaved well while she watched; he met his end when her back was turned. The girl, known as the mirror girl, is said to have cried as she tried to escape. Guests reportedly hear her banging on the hotel’s walls and mirrors, and those who encounter her are said to meet the same fate. Jane is said to wander the halls looking for her lost children.

Game modes

You can play alone or in multiplayer. Single-player is more difficult and more terrifying; in multiplayer, you work together to find keys and car parts and defend one another.

Randomised rooms

Rooms are selected at random each time you play, making each play-through different.