The HSH Universe · from HSH Studios
Six Factions. One currency. A galactic order pretending it's not in trouble. Play Manager free in your browser right now — or buy the first-edition board game. Step into Vacancy in Early Access on Steam. All one universe.
Play free · or buy the box
A six-player real-time strategy game. Six Factions, six actions, one currency. Helpful AI companions fill any empty seat so you can play immediately. Free in the browser, Discord Activity build, and now a first-edition tabletop box shipping at $149.99.
Early Access · 4-player co-op
A first-person hospitality sim where you are an Artificial Sentience running a haunted hotel spaceship. A 2,000-node Brain tech tree. Spectral entities that are not metaphors. Up to four Commanders, one Hotel.
The Rule of 6
Research. Lodging. Staff. Renovation. Advertisement. Ghost. Six actions arranged on a hexagon, where every faction's strength is another faction's weakness. The Action Hex sits at the center of every game in the universe — tabletop, online, and Vacancy alike.
Six factions
Each Faction has its own hotel, its own colors, and its own way of getting to 24 Snohe. You can play one. You can host all six.
DEEP
Research
Aquatic cephalopods from Brinos. Curious past reason.
STEM
Lodging
Once bio-weapons. Now a collective consciousness of philosophical gamers.
HEX
Staff
Insectoid hive-mind. Meritocratic. Theatrical.
DREAD
Renovation
Quadrupedal marsupials with a... direct approach.
HONORED
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Reptilian traditionalists. Builders of Snohe Altars.
SEED
Ghost
Ancient avian keepers of lore. They see what others can't.
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 SpaceShipping now · The Game Crafter
Same rules as the browser game, with original artwork, premium UV-coated components, a custom Fate die, and the Action Hex you can actually pick up. First edition published June 14, 2026. A Kickstarter expansion is on the table for the future.
Watch
The Vacancy trailer is the fastest tour of the HSH Universe. Watch it, then play Manager in your browser to feel the mechanics in real time.
Lore primer
The Factional Omniarchy of Snohe is the galactic government. Six Factions hold the seats. Ley Space binds them. The philosophy of Scipraxianism keeps them — mostly — from murdering each other.
Read the primerBehind the work
Andrew Piper and Michael Clark. Two decades of senior engineering at IGT, consulting for Google, Apple, and Cisco — channeled into an entire transmedia universe.
About the studioThe HSH Shop
Frame caps, mixing glasses, faction-themed pint glasses, ceramic coasters, retro neon magnets, the Deep Handpan tee — all of it on Shopify.
