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Skull Hotel

James Hall · 2025-07-15

Steam

ActionIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 15, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Skull Hotel is a horror game where you clean hotel rooms while creatures hide, waiting to kill you.

79%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

You just got hired by Skull Hotel as a housekeeper and today is your first day. Your task? Clean 8 hotel rooms. Sounds doable, right? But beware: deadly entities lurk in 50% of these rooms, waiting for your arrival. With 30 unique deadly traps and hiding spots, randomly selected in each playthrough, even experienced players will need multiple attempts to survive. Your survival depends on vigilance: scrutinize every corner, listen carefully for unusual sounds, and remain alert at all times. The "guests" of Skull Hotel always leave subtle clues to their presence - spotting these hints is your (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 292 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~37/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 13,016 Action games in the census by review count.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
575720252026Week of 2025-07-15: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-05: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-02: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-23: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-28: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-04: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-25: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-09-08: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

4
achievements tracked
36.7%
earned "Unnecessary Fear"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerAdjustable Text SizeStereo SoundTouch Only OptionPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

25 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Danish, Finnish, Greek

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)17020%4

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

Census log

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