Bad Hotel
Skip · Short indie · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.6h 4.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 34% of 373 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 4494 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
IGF FINALIST 2013 BAFTA WINNER 2012 TIGA AWARD FINALIST 2012 1. Build Hotel. 2. Make Music. 3. Stop Tadstock. An insane hybrid of a tower defense game and a procedural music toy with tons of bullets (and healthy number of Wu-Tang references and credit crunch satire). The hit game for iOS now available on Windows and Mac!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 4 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 642 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Rock 'N' Roll Defense ($4.99, scores 72) and Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense ($9.99, scores 75) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Bad Hotel
The main story runs 1.6 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 2.6 times as long.
The drop-off
64% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is very unplesant to play. It might be more fun on a tablet, but on a PC, it's awkward and confusing. I do not recommend this game. It's bad enough that it's the first and only time I ever asked Steam for a refund. They politely declined. :-/
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Bad Hotel is a very strange tower defense game...if you can even call it that. You are doing what you can to protect your hotel by adding blocks to it that either shoots, gives you more money or other helpful things. The mechanics are based a lot on a beat so the closer to your hotel you build something the sooner the beat will reach it to trigger it but on many levels this can be overlooked and its more important...
First of all don't take my word for it, read some of the professional reviews and whatnot. It's a good game, even in 2024. I just picked it up and finished it (had gotten halfway through, when I first got it on sale). It's a solid tower defense game that encourages .. Forces you to bend and adapt your defense strategies as you make your way through the levels. In each level you balance your income with your...
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Cite this score
Bad Hotel scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/231720/bad-hotelReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.