You don’t want to stay in these hotels, which have things that are either supernatural or just plain scary.
Pop culture and folklore are full of scary stories about hotels. They mix a small living space with a strange environment, which is often a good way to make something scary. Hotels are places where we can sleep, eat, and get cleaned, but they are still strange and uncomfortable. You have to also think about how well you know your hotel room.
Another thing that makes hotels so scary is that they give people a sense of unease. Each room and floor is almost exactly the same, which is spooky. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that hotels are in a lot of scary games. Some of the creepiest hotels ever made are in these games.
Death Come True
Death Come True is a strange full-motion video that came out not too long ago. Makoto Karaki’s hotel phone wakes him up, and you play as him. You then find a Special Investigator in your bathtub and news reports that say you are a serial killer.
One of the best things about the game is that you can choose how the story goes. The hotel in the game is strange and changes time, which makes for an emotionally thrilling experience.
9: The Last Resort
9 is a game that doesn’t get talked about much, but Robert DeNiro, Christopher Reeves, Aerosmith, and Jim Belushi all make cameos in it. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, who are known as The Toxic Twins, also live in the hotel. You play as a character who gets the hotel as a gift and figures out how it works.
As you solve puzzles, you look for a way to get the Toxic Twins out of the hotel. Some parts of 9’s hotel feel familiar, but most of it is strange. This game is weird, and the fact that everything feels familiar but slightly off is unsettling.
Dark Fall: Lost Souls
In Lost Souls, the last story in a trilogy, a former police officer tries to find a girl who has been gone for five years. The officer lost his job when it was found out that he had changed evidence. You hope to clear your name if you can find the girl. In the game, you come across an empty, broken-down hotel that makes you feel scared.
Every time you go into a new room, you’ll be excited to see what it has in store. Even though the graphics are a little old, most of Lost Soul’s visuals are still good, and the sound is still good. This hotel is one of the scariest ever shown in a video game.
The Devil In Me
The Devil in Me is a great way to end the Dark Pictures Anthology. Even though it’s not an exact copy, the game’s abandoned hotel is based on H.H. Holmes’ murder castle. In the hotel, you’ll run into many different problems, some of which are deadly.
You are part of a film crew that goes to the hotel to get footage. Previous games in the Dark Pictures Anthology were based on the supernatural, but this game’s plot is based on real-life events and crimes.
The Suicide Of Rachel Foster
A lot more people use walking simulators than you might think. Most of the time, these simulators tell personal stories in interesting settings. In this game, you go through a strange hotel and tell the story of a girl who finds out about her past in the building. The game has both scary stories and soap operas in it.
You play as Nicole, who is going back to her parents’ old Montana hotel, The Timberland, which they have left empty. Nicole and her mother left the Timberland ten years ago when they found out that Nicole’s father was close with another girl, Rachel Foster. At times, you’ll be afraid of what’s around every corner, and at other times, you’ll have nothing but a Polaroid flash to guide you through the dark.
At Dead Of Night
“Part horror movie, part horror game, and part ghost hunt” is how At Dead Of Night is described. The horror story in Tunnel Rush game is short but memorable. At the start, a young woman checks into a hotel in the middle of nowhere. It turns out that the owner of the hotel has a dangerous alter ego that could compete with Norman Bates. As you move through the hotel, you use a ghost communicator, a compass, and a scrying mirror, among other things.
The hotel in the game is dark, creepy, and full of ghosts. If you’re the kind of person who likes dark hallways and empty rooms, you’ll love the atmosphere of this game.
Gregory Horror Show
This weird game mixes survival horror with puzzles like those from LucasArts. In the story, you go into the Gregory House. After an old rat named Gregory traps you in the hotel, you must find a way out.
You can go back to the world if you can find the lost souls in the hotel. Each soul in the game is held by a guest of the hotel. Even though the game looks like a cartoon, it plays a lot like other survival horror games. The game is a bit like a fever dream because it is funny and strange at the same time.
The Medium
A lot of games with two stories put too much focus on just one of them. In The Medium, a psychological horror game, you switch between the real world and the spiritual world. The game has hard puzzles and a spirit guide named Marianne who leads the player to an abandoned hotel to find out about her psychic powers. The point of the game is to find out what bad things happened in the hotel.
Slowly, gathering evidence builds up to an interesting story. The hotel is mostly dark or just barely lit. The screen is also split, showing Marianne in the real world on one side and her spiritual form on the other.
Oxide: Room 104
The game Oxide Room 104 is hard and takes place in a hotel. In an interesting twist, every time your character dies, the hotel changes. You only have a certain number of lives, which makes things even harder. Many of the games on this list try to scare you by making it dark and quiet, but this game has more aggressive bad guys, like poisonous plants and animals.
Matthew is trying to get out of the hotel, and you play as him. Depending on how you play, how you leave the hotel will be different. The hotel is called the Night Soul Motel, and a doctor does illegal surgeries on people who don’t know what’s going on.
Maid Of Sker
You can’t miss Maid of Sker if you like gothic games from the 1800s. In the story, a woman begs a man to come to the reopening of the hotel her father built. You find out later that the hotel is in bad shape. As you move through chapels, gardens, and other changes you’d only find in a high-end hotel, you face a wide range of problems.
The game keeps getting better because of how well it builds tension and pulls you into the story. Maid of Sker is one of the best gothic horror games, even if you haven’t heard of it.
