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Mobile game · 2012

Bad Hotel

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! You are a budding entrepreneur, whose hotel is rather unfortunately located within the territory of Tarnation Tadstock, the Texas Tyrant. Your only defense against Tadstock’s army of seagulls, rats, yetis, and more is to build your hotel as quickly and intelligently as possible, using an array of increasingly sophisticated weapons. The beautiful artwork, quirky storyline, and frantic gameplay all work seamlessly together with a generative music system, which creates original music depending on the player’s actions and decisions. The player becomes a composer, creating complex musical structures to defend their hotel. A vast variety of music can be generated, from delicate beach chillout to country banjo techno.

Estimated daily players

~6500.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 753.4K

Estimated total players

~13,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 7.5K22K

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Aug 14, 2012AndroidiOSESRB 16

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Bad Hotel, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Steam, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~650

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 753.4K

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~13,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 7.5K22K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Bad Hotel per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~13,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Bad Hotel where it is sold.

Steam players in game

0

Reviews
373

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Only the games with a PC port appear here, but where Steam does report it is a real concurrent-player count rather than a proxy for one.

Community signals

How many people gather around Bad Hotel outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for Bad Hotel: Google Play, App Store, Discord, Reddit, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Bad Hotel?

We estimate that about 13,000 people have played Bad Hotel — plausibly between 7.5K and 22K. Around 650 of them play on a given day, in a range of 75 and 3.4K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Bad Hotel still active?

Yes. Bad Hotel is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Bad Hotel player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 1 readings taken since August 9, 2026.

When was Bad Hotel released?

Bad Hotel was released on August 14, 2012 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Bad Hotel available on?

Bad Hotel is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from App Store (iPhone) and App Store (iPad).

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