The Utsuro Hotel

You woke up in the stairwell. You do not remember checking in. The Utsuro Hotel is a retro first-person horror roguelite set in a hotel that refuses to explain itself. This is the prelude: reach the roof and it ends there. Then go back in. There is a new hotel every run. Twelve doors. Twelve floors. The building decides where you go. Choose a door, and you only find out where you are once you are standing in it and the lock has turned behind you. Reach the roof to evade the flood. THE FLOORS HOLD STILL. Every run builds a new hotel. Inside a run, nothing moves. Corridors stay where you left them. The key stays where you found it. A building that cheats is a building you cannot learn. So learn it. Your map fills itself in as you walk. Write on the stairwell door plaques so future you knows what past you walked into. Then die, and watch all of it regenerate into a building you have never seen. Unless you are carrying one more try. YOU ARE NOT ALONE ON ANY FLOOR Things roam these halls. Each one keeps its own rules, and none of them will tell you what those rules are. Some of them come for you. Some of them only want to be seen. There are places to wait them out, if you find them in time. You cannot fight anything in this hotel. You can only be somewhere else. THE ELEVATOR DOES NOT TAKE REQUESTS Get the power back on and the elevator will take you up. It is the fastest way to the roof. It also breaks down every time, and it doesn't let you choose where it stops. MOST ROOMS ARE EMPTY. NOT ALL OF THEM. Behind one door, something is waiting. It sells what the floors hide: keys, fuses, and a coin that buys you one more try. It buys whatever you are done carrying. It only takes coins, and coins only come off the things hunting you. When, and how, is yours to figure out. Sell a key you are sure you are finished with. Find out whether you were. A BUILDING THAT ONLY SPEAKS IN OBJECTS The hotel leaves things behind: signage, room numbers, and survival graffiti from whoever was here before you. Some of it is out of date. Some of it is wrong. Some of it will save you. The basement is where every stay begins, and it is the only floor that teaches you anything. Pay attention. FEATURES • Twelve doors, twelve floors, bound on first contact • A new hotel every run • Knowledge is the only progression: no upgrade tree, no stat growth • No combat. Nothing here can be fought. Only understood, or avoided. • An elevator that breaks down every time • A merchant who deals in keys and second chances • Floor-stamped keys that make your own inventory the scariest thing in the game • Simple touch controls. You are never fighting the controls. Only the building. • Retro first-person horror: flat light, hard shadows, heavy grain • One purchase. No ads, no in-app purchases. Play with headphones. Sound is the only map you get for free. The hotel is empty. The hotel is full. The hotel is waiting.