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Hotel Sowls

Studio SOTT · PsychoFlux Entertainment · 2019-12-31

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 29, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 31, 2019 (Mac), Dec 31, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hotel Sowls is an eerie mystery adventure. You are a pharmacist who, after a long and grueling journey, finally acquires a rare and enigmatic stone; only to have it stolen overnight at Hotel Sowls. Can you recover the stone and uncover the secrets hidden within this strange and unsettling hotel?

1
playing now
96%
positive of 584 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 584 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2023-08-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492018-12-032026-07-092018-12-03 — best price $3.992019-02-12 — best price $3.992019-07-10 — best price $3.992019-11-01 — best price $3.992019-12-03 — best price $3.992020-01-02 — best price $3.992020-07-09 — best price $3.992020-10-29 — best price $3.992020-11-25 — best price $3.992020-12-22 — best price $3.992021-06-24 — best price $3.992021-10-28 — best price $3.992021-11-24 — best price $3.992021-12-22 — best price $3.992022-01-27 — best price $3.992022-06-23 — best price $3.992022-11-22 — best price $3.992022-12-22 — best price $3.992023-02-20 — best price $3.992023-03-16 — best price $3.992023-06-29 — best price $3.992023-08-07 — best price $0.492023-11-21 — best price $3.992023-12-22 — best price $3.992024-03-15 — best price $3.992024-06-27 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992024-12-19 — best price $3.992025-03-14 — best price $3.992025-06-26 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $2.492025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-04-28 — best price $2.492026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: Korean, English, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)23516%39
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndiePuzzleMysteryAdventureAtmosphericPoint & Click

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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