Review: Hotel Sowls (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Harvard L.

I’ve been coming to appreciate short games more and more in recent times. With a shorter run time, the challenge is on the designer to provide a consistent and structured experience, and often this is done by cutting out the chaff from an otherwise longer game. That’s exactly the ethos with Studio Sott’s Hotel Sowls, a surreal adventure game in which every character and every object is in perfect service to the game’s creepy tone. This is a game which, with only some simple sketches, a great soundtrack and a cracking script, kept me more on the edge of my seat than most blockbusters in recent memory.

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