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The Murder Hotel

Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.

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Developer
Wegenbartho Games
Publisher
Wegenbartho Games, Red Blocks
Release
September 17, 2025
318 days ago
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Very Positive69 reviews95.7%

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About the Game

There they stood all steeped in shame, another victim claimed in my name.

The Murder Hotel is an interactive Murder Mystery Adventure with a huge twist: A scissors wielding demon is the murderer and you have to blame one of the human guests, forging a plausible theory how they could have done it.

Feel free to call me Gastfenger. I'm the demonic hotelier, at your service.





Oh, you want to leave already? How amusing.



Nobody leaves this place unless I allow it.

How about you solve 4 murder cases. Easy, you say?

There's a twist to them. It is I who murders my own guests.



And it's your task to investigate and successfully blame one of the other guests as the culprit.








Defeat your rival and convince the Demon Council to win a case.

Lose just once, and you'll stay here, forever!

Dare challenge me?

About the game

  • A demon may be the perpetrator but you can only explain each murder by human methods. Are you up to the challenge?

  • Find out why the murders are happening and how to put an end to them.

  • Featuring 14 human guests and a handful of demons, all with their own backstories and dark secrets.

  • Find clues in the form of paper words and form your own sentences to interrogate suspects

  • There's multiple ways and theories to win a trial. Can you find them all?

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