Hotel on the Grate
released on Nov 04, 2021
Hotel on the Grate is a short(15-20 min), narrative adventure game. Assume the role of an on call therapist and travel across the city on the grate to meet your patients.
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Love the music in this. Kind of short (and crude, at times). If you still have this installed look into the files for a secret audio file that cannot be heard in the games (i think so?), it's some dude talking on the phone about stroking or fucking something (can't remember what it was).
This is one of those games that makes me really sad that it's a finished product and not a tech demo. I'm into pretty odd things, but the music and environments here are awesome. The music especially, it was great. Art style is kinda hard to place. I think it looks great, but it also looks like a 2012 Roblox game. And the character design reminds me of something you'd see on Adult Swim in the early 2000s.
I was kinda disappointed how little 'gameplay' there was, since you literally ask the same four questions to four random NPCs, and it doesn't matter the order you ask the questions in or anything. The characters are all pretty unique and interesting, and it would've been so much cooler to have actual conversations with them. I also really didn't understand nor like how you dialogue boxes don't end on their own. You have to click 'goodbye' for every single dialogue chain to end. It really slows the game down and feels really awkward.
Anyway, I doubt the dev will ever see this, but I really wish this game got turned into something greater. I'm not the kind of person who thinks long games are inherently better than shorter games, but even just an hour of gameplay (the game is currently 10-20 minutes) here where you actually have weight in the world would be cool.
I was kinda disappointed how little 'gameplay' there was, since you literally ask the same four questions to four random NPCs, and it doesn't matter the order you ask the questions in or anything. The characters are all pretty unique and interesting, and it would've been so much cooler to have actual conversations with them. I also really didn't understand nor like how you dialogue boxes don't end on their own. You have to click 'goodbye' for every single dialogue chain to end. It really slows the game down and feels really awkward.
Anyway, I doubt the dev will ever see this, but I really wish this game got turned into something greater. I'm not the kind of person who thinks long games are inherently better than shorter games, but even just an hour of gameplay (the game is currently 10-20 minutes) here where you actually have weight in the world would be cool.