The Hotel

The Hotel is a survival horror game in which you play as David Kartner. After receiving a letter from his long-lost brother, Alex, asking him to meet at the top of a hotel, David travels there to catch up. The hotel is surrounded by an outpost belonging to a scientific organisation called the T.S.S. After breaking into the compound and entering the hotel, he discovers that things are not as they seem.

Explore the hotel

The game is shown mainly from a top-down isometric view, with a first-person mode also available. Its floors are procedurally generated and can include hotel corridors, dining areas and outdoor balconies. Each floor has a dynamic sound and ambience track, ranging from the emptiness of the corridors to the disorienting feel of outdoor areas.

Avoid the entities

Different entities appear as you explore, and each has a specific ability you must learn to survive encounters with it. Useful items can help you get past the dangers, but the main items have limited battery life. You can recharge them, but doing so comes at the cost of upgrading them. Other items improve your chances of survival by upgrading main items or helping you progress toward the top.

Checkpoints and clues

Every 50th floor is a checkpoint where you can save your game and find main items. An Upgrade Terminal lets you upgrade or charge items, or find information about them. Notes and documents are placed on specific floors and evenly distributed across all 250 floors. They are not required to finish the game, but they contain essential story details and information about the creatures; you may miss important information if you do not find them.