Bad Hotel

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Summary

IGF FINALIST 2013
BAFTA WINNER 2012
TIGA AWARD FINALIST 2012

1. Build Hotel.
2. Make Music.
3. Stop Tadstock.

An insane hybrid of a tower defense game and a procedural music toy with tons of bullets (and healthy number of Wu-Tang references and credit crunch satire).

The hit game for iOS now available on Windows and Mac! You are a budding entrepreneur, whose hotel is rather unfortunately located within the territory of Tarnation Tadstock, the Texas Tyrant. Your only defense against Tadstock’s army of seagulls, rats, yetis, and more is to build your hotel as quickly and intelligently as possible, using an array of increasingly sophisticated weapons.

The beautiful artwork, quirky storyline, and frantic gameplay all work seamlessly together with a generative music system, which creates original music depending on the player’s actions and decisions. The player becomes a composer, creating complex musical structures to defend their hotel. A vast variety of music can be generated, from delicate beach chillout to country banjo techno.

Get the BAFTA-winning game that Kotaku said was "wonderful" and The Guardian called "an unlikely work of minimalist art".


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Bad Hotel Reviews & Ratings

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Review by Overvulture [user]
November 9, 2015

This is a grotesque, pulsating mass of blaring, audiovisual hatred pumped directly into the pain centre of your brain. Spiteful controlsThis is a grotesque, pulsating mass of blaring, audiovisual hatred pumped directly into the pain centre of your brain. Spiteful controls delight in your torment, and the slothful criminal negligence that is the porting job serves to remind you that sometimes the bad guys do win. Either it is one grumpy old man's masterwork in hating all that is fun, or a cynical meta-game trying to prove that all indie games are secretly terrible. It burrows into your senses like a rusty drill and the trauma of the experience has overwritten some of my fondest gaming memories forever. It lurks in darkness, a bloated spider just waiting to suck the soul from your withered husk. It is a blight upon this world and must be purged until none know it ever existed.

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Review by JimCorbett [user]
June 19, 2014

Cheap game where you stack blocks to make a tower and defend your hotel from oncoming enemies. It's buggy, boring, and annoying. Every levelCheap game where you stack blocks to make a tower and defend your hotel from oncoming enemies. It's buggy, boring, and annoying. Every level basically ends up being the same thing: Spam out towers as fast as you can at the beginning and hope they shoot where you want them to shoot. The worst part of the game is the "music" which blares out every time a tower shoots. There is nothing fun about Bad Hotel and the only thing it's good for are the trading cards that come with it. There are free flash games that do this genre far better than Bad Hotel. Do yourself a huge favor and stay away from this travesty.

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Review by Deadraque [user]
December 26, 2013

Most titles that has bad in their title is an indice to what you could get... And they are right it is bad. Very bad, the sounds musicMost titles that has bad in their title is an indice to what you could get... And they are right it is bad. Very bad, the sounds music gameplay is all 1 by one a disaster, you place cubes on another cube with no sense at all, it is even extremely ugly how you build your hotel, rooms will give you money so you can buy powerup rooms like healing rooms, rocket rooms and so on, but it isn't really fun, some levels can be challenging like when you need to fight a boss, that would be the only positive thing i can see, but for the rest oh my what a bad experience....

100
Review by dave69 [user]
October 17, 2013

Game works, lots of fun if you like tower defense games and cool, changing music. Very cozy game to play on the side, as you can play it in aGame works, lots of fun if you like tower defense games and cool, changing music. Very cozy game to play on the side, as you can play it in a window. As typical of the TD Genre the difficulty amps up gradually as do the defenses you use to fight them off. The boss fights are very enjoyable (so far) and the loose story is a good yarn.

Game Information
Release Date August 14, 2012
Publisher Lucky Frame
Content Rated E10+ (Everyone 10+)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Side view
Genres Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Indie, Arcade
Themes Comedy
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Android, iOS