SummaryHotel Barcelona is the long-awaited collaboration between game design legends Swery65 and Suda51. Drawing influences from across horror's history, you'll be pitted against everything from alien entities to AI-enhanced sharks, all while stuck in an endless time loop filled with serial killers - and only your deceased past selves to help you.
Rated Mfor Mature
Developer:White Owls
HOTEL BARCELONA
Released On:
Sep 26, 2025
Metascore
Mixed or Average
58
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
58
21% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
63% Mixed
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17% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Jan 22, 2026
90
Slick gameplay, stylish visuals and an interesting narrative with a timeless underlying theme of cooperation, respect, and understanding of each other’s points of view.
Sep 22, 2025
80
Hotel Barcelona is a bloody fun Roguelike, with a whole heap of creative ideas and just as many unhinged characters to meet.
Sep 26, 2025
65
I’ve been playing Hades 2 at the same time as Hotel Barcelona, and the former captured my attention more than the latter. Hotel Barcelona sure is quirky, but lacks some much-needed polish that could have truly elevated it. Know what you’re in for, and pull the trigger accordingly; though kudos to publisher Cult Games for setting this at a very digestible $60 AUD price point. I had a blast setting things to easy in order to blow through the lion’s share of its story (as in I missed a side mission or two) in roughly 6 or 7 hours.
Oct 22, 2025
60
Despite its punk charm, clever ideas, and quirky narrative tone, Hotel Barcelona suffers from weak combat design, repetitive structure, poor performance, and clunky controls that undermine its creative potential and make it enjoyable mainly for fans of Swery, Suda51, or 80s horror references.
Oct 2, 2025
50
Hotel Barcelona's horror-film pastiche amounts to little more than references, and without the unifying sensibility that defines Swery's best work, the game is a series of mismatched parts, idea in want of a whole. [Issue#416, p.116]
Sep 26, 2025
50
Hotel Barcelona is a messy but ambitious experiment that often feels like it’s trying to do too much at once. Its style and inventive ideas, like Slasher Phantoms, branching levels and absurd characters, show flashes of brilliance, but the clunky combat and overstuffed mechanics make many runs more testing than enjoyable. In the end, it’s memorable for its imagination, but not for being a satisfying or polished experience.
Sep 30, 2025
30
Based on Swery65's resume, we expected Hotel Barcelona to have a lot of kinks to work through, but we still weren't prepared for the god-awful controls, the poorly-implemented invasion mechanic or the wacky, zany plot. A waste of great artworks.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
59% Positive
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Jul 26, 2026
0
L’affiche du jeu est tout à fait réussie, ça donne envie d’en savoir plus… et peut-être même, éventuellement de jouer à ce « jeu »… et là, on déchante très rapidement puisqu’il s’agit d’une daube en 2d et demi à défilement horizontal où l’on bastonne des ennemis bizarres et en tout cas très agressifs (et bizarroïdes à tout le moins) sans compter des boss bien vénères… Mais on le serait pour moins que ça quand on voit le jeu de merde que c’est, cette espèce de euh… quoi déjà ?… une daube qui défile avec bourrinage de boutons via combos obligatoires comme dans les jeux de baston à la con et tout ça et patati et patata… Le jeu est laid à faire peur, non pas qu’il fasse peur mais il est tellement laid qu’on a juste envie de lui mettre un sac en papier sur la gueule et d’ailleurs, on **** un sac poubelle et on le balance sur l’écran, tellement c’est laid, cette merde ! Combien d’années, non, combien de décennies de **** a ce truc ?!… quelle bouse, quelle infamie… franchement ! Et en plus, ça se permet de tourner comme une patate, c’est dingue, ça… c’est codé avec le cul, cet étron ! Entre les phases de combat bourrin en 2d, on a droit à des sortes de cinématiques, enfin façon de parler, juste des dialogues souvent ineptes qui tentent de raconter quelque chose… mais quoi au juste, même les développeurs en PLS à côté du karaoké trop arrosé ne le savent pas… ou plus. L’on suppose qu’ils l’on su à un moment donné mais… ils dorment sur leur clavier, là (vous savez ce que c’est, la semaine de 70h au Japon…). Quoi qu’il en soit, on arrête vite de jouer et on désinstalle prestement cette chose du disque dur parce que 10 Go de ce bordel à cul, ça encombre sévèrement (d’ailleurs, comment ça peut faire 10 Go, cette bouse en 256 couleurs ?! non mais franchement…).
Oct 17, 2025
0
I dont care if people blind fan to dev bad game is bad, don't believe good reviews they are from blind fans, devs, family, bots and paid utubers.
Even free even watch it on utube not worth it. -very very repetitive very expensive awful shallow clunky sluggish bad 2d action roguelite game, bad voice acting, cringe bad dialogs, very very repetitive level design, awful sluggish clunky unfun bad combat, awful ai, unresponsive controls, bad sound effect, little weapons, and bad bosses. -only good bosses cutsences that's it.






























