The Motel Game Review: An Interesting Horror Game for Passing Time

The Motel Game Review: An Interesting Horror Game for Passing Time

The Motel is a 2025 horror game developed by Aura Studios, with a very simple objective, i.e., complete the surveillance and management duties assigned to you at your night shift motel job. You have to take care of the motel and operate through your survival instincts to save yourself and other people staying at the motel. We played the game and found it to be quite interesting, somewhat terrifying, and overall, an eccentric indie horror game. The Motel is like an acquired taste and somewhat like an exotic dish, i.e., you might find yourself relishing it or completely despising it.

The Motel Game Review

You have to take care of the Motel

The Motel Game Review

Keeping the lights on, consuming coffee to keep yourself awake and vigilant, managing the surveillance like security personnel, conversing with the owner to be well-informed about the motel, waiting in solitude for the customers and answering their queries, collecting trash and occasionally walking around the motel for casual monitoring are some of the few tasks that you will have to complete. You are going to feel a strong sense of responsibility and ownership while managing the customers and handing them the room keys. It feels like you’re making a difference in the world or at least helping people have a pleasant stay at the motel.

You will have to care for the motel like it’s your baby, with an almost maternal instinct. You’re going to enjoy the monitoring process thoroughly.

A day of dealing with weird characters

The Motel Game Review

You will have to deal with homeless people who are trying to bolt cut their way into the motel grounds for malicious purposes during your night shift. There will be a few eccentric, out-of-the-ordinary, and hilariously bizarre people who will make you laugh with their mere presence or goofy antics. Overly enthusiastic young customers will make you feel uncomfortable and jealous with their beaming positivity but also amuse you with their proudly awkward personalities. There will be nosy customers also, who don’t mean ill but are too naive to understand that their behavior is slightly off in social settings. Last but not least, you will have to deal with weirdos, who have zero social etiquette.

Enjoy the tranquility

The Motel Game Review

Sitting on the counter with absolutely minimal human interaction, breathing in a slow and serene environment that just feels cozy, staring outside the gate into nothingness for endless durations, and roaming around the motel with a sense of peaceful abandon in your heart—you’re going to feel amazing while playing ‘The Motel,’ and if you’re an introvert whose social battery drains quickly, then it’s going to feel like a heavenly experience for your soul. If you’ve been busy in life or with the family and need a much-deserved break, then you’re going to enjoy the calm and detached vibe of this game.

The act of doing nothing is also quite luxurious as well, and this fictitious in-game job will give you the same feeling.

Protect yourself from the killer on loose

The Motel Game Review

The radio news channel and customers will warn you about a murderous maniac being on the loose. The invocation of fear that you feel in real life while hearing such news will get amplified during the gameplay as it realizes your worst nightmares of being near the crime scene and almost being attacked by the same monster you heard on the news about. There is graphical gore present in the game but in extremely brief periods of time which might not make you puke but will definitely disturb you for the time being.

The game lets you experience an extremely visceral sense of fear that people feel while being in life-and-death situations. Overall, you’re going to like this game if you are looking for a light, atmospheric, and eccentric horror game with intriguing characters.

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