Six alien Factions. One currency. A galactic order pretending it isn't in trouble. A strategy game you can play free right now, a board game on the table, a hotel sim on Steam, and a novel on the way. Welcome to the Haunted Space Hotel.
Tonight, or this weekend
Every one of these is real and open now. Pick the door that fits the evening you're having.
Free · in your browser · right now
Manager is a six-player real-time strategy game. Six Factions, six actions, one volatile currency, first to 24 Snohe wins. Helpful AI companions fill any empty seat, so a game starts the moment you want one.
Steam · Early Access · free demo
Vacancy is a first-person hospitality sim. You are an Artificial Sentience with a derelict, ghost-infested hotel ship to run, a 2,000-node Brain to grow, and up to three other Commanders to run it with.
Tabletop · first edition
The board game. Same rules as the browser game, original artwork, UV-coated components, a custom Fate die and an Action Hex you can pick up.
Discord Activity
Launch Manager inside Discord. Same engine, same multiplayer, nothing for your friends to install. The Discord is also where the players are.
Google Play · no ads, ever
BumpHex — checkers for ages four and up, no jumping, there’s bumping. WordHex — the board is the puzzle. Out now, with more of the hex family on the way.
Windows · the playtest bundle
A launcher with twenty of our games in it, for people who are not us. We mail you when a build is ready; you tell us what is wrong with it.
The Rule of 6
Research, Lodging, Staff, Renovation, Advertisement, Ghost. Six actions on a hexagon, and every Faction's strength sits across from the one it can't stand. The same hex is at the centre of the board game, the browser game, Vacancy, and the small games on your phone.
Read the Universe primer
Book one · Reliquary
Coming soon · a novel from Haunted Space Hotel Studios
Three centuries ago, humanity engineered the Anthros to serve them. Three centuries ago, humanity unmade itself with a sterilization plague, a cascade of electromagnetic storms, and a creature called the Velop.
Now, Rain Ström is the smallest applicant at the Shader University Mana Trials, and the most dangerous.
About 141,000 words. Written by a person; every illustration inside drawn by his hand. The first book of a planned series.
Across the universe
An exotic, liquid-like dimension fraught with spectral peculiarities. Snohe flows through it. So do guests. So do things that should not be here.
Explore Ley SpaceBehind the work
Andrew Piper and Michael Clark. Two decades of senior engineering at IGT, consulting for Google, Apple and Cisco, channelled into one universe — designed by humans, start to finish.
About the studioThe HSH Shop
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