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About This Game

Welcome to Hookah House

Step into the world of hookah lounge management. Build your dream lounge from the ground up, serve customers, and grow your reputation as the go-to spot in town.

Play Together, up to four players

Host a new lounge and up to three friends join with a code or a Steam invite, or open the lounge you already run and let them walk in. Everyone picks a face from the whole cast, 71 of them, and that face is yours for the night: it leaves the walk-in crowd and the hire board. Play Setup Night as a crew, then work the floor. Grab a bowl, a box, a table or a bill and it is yours until it is done. The lounge sends more guests when there are more hands, a crew night ranks on its own leaderboard, and the night's receipt shows what each of you did.

Run the Service Loop

Every customer that walks through your door needs your attention:

• Greet and seat guests at available tables
  
• Take their hookah orders and pick their preferred flavors
  
• Pack bowls at the prep station and get the mix just right
  
• Heat and deliver coals to keep hookahs going
  
• Collect payments and earn tips for great service

Build & Customize Your Lounge

Design a space that reflects your style. Place furniture, upgrade your equipment, swap out wall and floor finishes, and add decorations to create the perfect atmosphere. Every piece you place affects how your lounge looks and functions.

Make it yours

Six shop tabs and 49 new pieces, from a tiled fountain and a mashrabiya screen to an arcade cabinet. Tune your tools in the Workshop, open a covered patio, and pick the look of the game itself from five color themes.

Manage Your Business

• Stock a variety of premium tobacco flavors
  
• Balance your budget between rent, supplies, and upgrades
  
• Build a reputation that attracts more customers
  
• Earn regular customers who keep coming back
  
• Track your daily earnings and plan for growth

Expect the unexpected

A dropped coal lights a rug. A customer with a grudge swings. Rain fills the room and empties the patio. A performer books a show night and the whole lounge changes mood. Check the forecast, keep an extinguisher on the wall, and act like it was all planned.

Key Features

• Run the whole service loop by hand: seat, order, pack, coal, drinks, bill, wash
  
• Online co-op for up to four players, each as a different member of the cast
  
• Build and decorate: furniture, finishes, rugs, wall art, lights, a patio
  
• Customers with opinions: archetypes, chat, complaints, regulars
  
• Prices, stock, loans, staff, business analytics and a level track with unlocks
  
• Weather, fires, show nights and a city that wakes up around you
  
• In active development, with a dev log every couple of weeks

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some of the game's content was made with the help of AI tools and then finished by hand: some 3D models, the radio music, short voice lines and the illustrated intro scenes. Game design, code, animation, layouts, audio mixing and all final editing are our own work. An optional tableside chat generates short in-character replies during play on a server we operate. The game client holds no API keys; the server rate-limits requests, filters what goes in and what comes out, replaces anything filtered with a fixed written line, shows an AI mark while a generated line is on screen, and a Report button sends only the exchange and an anonymous session id to us for review. Some store artwork and marketing images were made with AI assistance.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Hookah House depicts hookah/shisha smoking in a stylized, non-realistic management sim context. No tobacco use is glorified or shown in a realistic manner. The game focuses on business management, customer service, and interior design.