Bad Hotel
Released Oct 2013
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!
34% positive · 374 reviews
Done
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $4.99
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Evaluation
Bad Hotel is a tower defense/music hybrid game that originally launched on iOS and was ported to Windows and Mac, releasing on Steam on October 16, 2013. The store description is framed entirely around the game's awards and accolades (IGF Finalist 2013, BAFTA Winner 2012, TIGA Award Finalist 2012), and describes a self-contained experience with no mention of DLC, expansions, ongoing updates, or future content. There are no DLC listings, no developer news posts, no roadmaps, and no announcements of any kind indicating that post-launch content was ever planned or delivered. The game launched as a complete, finished product — a port of an existing mobile title — and has operated as such ever since. Lucky Frame has made no communications suggesting further development.
Evidence
Store description presents the game as a complete, award-winning port of an existing iOS title with no mention of future updates, DLC, or ongoing content plans.
Short description reinforces the game as a finished iOS port arriving on Windows and Mac, with no indication of post-launch content.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Lucky Frame
Achievements
13
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
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".
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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