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About This Game

Episodic release: what is available now

The Motel is an episodic psychological horror game. The current release contains only the playable pilot episode, which begins the story. The full story is not yet available.

Your purchase includes the pilot episode and the subsequent story episodes planned for future major updates to this same game, at no additional charge. These later episodes are still in development and are not included in the current build. Release dates have not been announced.

First-person psychological horror set in a motel that will not let you sleep. As two brothers on the run, explore rooms that rewrite themselves, solve puzzles under pressure, and choose how the horror reaches you: through sound, through sight, or through your own body.

Co-op

Windows: play online with one friend using Steam invitations, or connect over LAN/IP. The host creates a game; the guest accepts a Steam invitation. Online co-op requires both players to be online in Steam, have access to the game, and run the same current Windows game build. The host must remain in the game.

Steam-invitation co-op is currently implemented in the Windows build only. The current macOS build uses direct-IP LAN co-op and does not support Steam invitations or cross-platform co-op.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI tools were used in the development of MOTEL.

Some of the game's 3D models and environment textures were produced with
AI-assisted tools, then reworked, retextured and assembled by hand. The
cinematic sequences were generated with AI video tools from written shot
lists and edited by the team. The musical score was produced with AI music
tools. Every asset was reviewed by a human before it went into the game and
ships as a fixed, unchanging part of the build.

Some of our store and marketing assets were produced the same way.

MOTEL generates nothing while you play. No content in the game is produced
by AI at runtime, and the game never connects to an AI service.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

MOTEL is a first-person psychological horror game intended for adult
players. Before buying, please be aware that it contains the following.

Violence and gore. Graphic violence against human characters, blood,
wounds and human remains. The violence is presented as disturbing rather
than action-oriented, and some of it involves characters the player has
come to know.

Death. Scenes involving corpses, including those of family members.

Disturbing imagery and psychological distress. Sustained dread,
hallucinatory sequences, body horror and sudden frightening events.

Story themes. The story deals with guilt, grief, the death of family
members, and the collapse of the relationship between two brothers.

Intense presentation. Extended sequences in darkness and confined spaces,
flickering and strobing light, and loud, abrupt sound design.

Language. Strong language throughout.

The game contains no sexual content and no nudity.