Phantasma Hotel

Phantasma Hotel is a pixel-art horror roguelike RPG about being trapped in a cursed hotel that kills you and brings you back to try again. You explore its gloomy corridors from a top-down view, search rooms, solve puzzles and face random tabletop-style events where your stats affect the outcome. As you learn more about the hotel’s history and your own trauma, the concierge tightens its grip.

The hotel and its history

The game is set in the 1980s ghost-town atmosphere of Pilgrim City, Virginia. Death returns you to the hotel, often in a filthy bathroom, while its layout and events change. You carry knowledge from earlier attempts, but time, enemies and a mysterious parasite inside your body keep pushing you toward breaking point.

You can play as several flawed protagonists, each with a distinct background, perks and perspective on fear, violence and childhood wounds. Decisions across multiple runs shape whether you remain a victim, become a monster or find something between the two.

Explore and investigate

You search rooms and hidden spots, solve puzzles and navigate the hotel in a top-down view inspired by classic JRPGs. Find-the-key puzzles and meta-puzzles can open new routes and floors, as well as possible ways to escape.

Random narrative events draw on tabletop RPGs, with outcomes based on your attributes, perks and inventory. A successful check can reveal a hidden path or save your life; failure can cost you blood, limbs or pieces of your mind.

Fight and survive

When nightmares take shape, the game switches to turn-based, first-person battles against maniacs and grotesque creatures inspired by Lovecraftian horror. You must weigh each move, deciding when to take a risk and when to protect your dwindling health and sanity.

Death is not an escape: you resurrect with memories of previous attempts, while the world reshuffles around you. Different characters, stats, random events, rewards and enemies make each run different.

Horror and soundtrack

Pixel art and a dark narrative about trauma and violence shape the hotel’s atmosphere. An original horror soundtrack accompanies the exploration and tells part of the story through its sounds.