Haunted Space Hotel: Manager

Haunted Space Hotel Studios

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About this game

Haunted Space Hotel Manager, rendered as if the board were on the 50-inch round table in front of you.

Not a menu of moves. The table IS the interface: tap the room to staff it, the orbit card to draw it, the action tile to take that action, the hex to rotate it. Every legal move you have sits on the piece of furniture it belongs to, lit up where you would reach for it. The only buttons are the things with no home on the board — end your turn, skip, lock a hex, clock out.

Look at it however you like. The perspective camera is the seat you are sitting in; drop to the click-through overhead camera to read any player's board, the orbits, or the central Snohe hex straight down, then go back.

ONE TO SIX SEATS, ANY MIX

Fill the chairs with people or with Megan, the AI that has been playing this game since long before it had a 3D table. Six humans, one human and five Megans, or anything between. Dice rolls and events take the screen when they land, so nobody misses the thing that just happened to them.

THE RULES ARE THE REAL ONES

The rules core is the same adjudicator the game has always run on, playing the published manual — not a re-implementation written for a phone. If the board says a move is legal, it is legal because the engine says so.

PLAY ACROSS THE ROOM, OR ACROSS THE COUNTRY

One device opens the table and everybody else joins from their own copy on their own device; any chair nobody takes is Megan's. On the same WiFi it is device to device and touches no server at all. If the people you are playing with are somewhere else, the host can open the table over the internet instead, and a four-letter code is the only thing anybody types. No accounts, ever — the host is the only source of truth.

FREE, AND WHAT IS NOT

The whole game is free forever: every seat count, every rule, Megan in all six chairs, and JOINING somebody else's table. The one purchase unlocks HOSTING — one person at the table buys it and everybody else plays for nothing.

What’s new

Fits every phone and tablet in portrait or landscape: every button is finger-sized, and the menus and the in-game HUD rearrange to fit the screen.

A new renderer draws the hotel the same way on every device.

Clock-Out is simpler: your Staff add to the roll when you are attacking and subtract when you are defending, so there is no direction button any more. The action hex no longer draws arrows and numbers over the tile.