Vampire hotel management game Bloody Hell Hotel to be released in 2027

Unfold Games and Gambit Digital have unveiled a release window for their upcoming vampire hotel management game Bloody Hell Hotel today.

The game is slated to be released sometime in 2027. To celebrate the announcement, a new gameplay trailer can be seen below.

A statement from the game dev reads:

When I first announced the game in 2022, it was already ambitious, but nowhere near what it has become today. Your feedback was pretty clear: you wanted a bigger game, with more features, more freedom, and more things to do. And so did I!

The problem was...monies. Bloody Hell Hotel was entirely self-funded from my first game, DARQ, and expanding the scope further didn't even seem possible. But I decided to take the leap anyway - after all, I had only 3 months of savings when I started working on DARQ, so it's not exactly the first time I've done something crazy. I wasn't making this game to grow a studio or build a business - that is not to say that I don't like monies - I like monies muchly. It just wasn't the main motivation. I just wanted to make something bloody amazing - something worth making.

Long story short, we eventually received funding we needed to get us to Early Access, which allowed us to expand a team that was already pretty large. Early Access became a good option for 2026, but there was a clear compromise there: not all features would be included, and the game wouldn't have the level of polish we'd ultimately want. Launching a game, after so many years of development, as an unfinished product just felt off.

And to be fair, Early Access was tempting for a different reason, too! We've been developing this game with your input from the very beginning. So many of your ideas have made it in because we simply loved them: vampire classes, thralls, moon cycles, gnomes, fang customization, pets, vampire hunters...the list goes on.

But Early Access would also have helped us fund the final stretch of development. And that was a problem I really wanted to solve without asking you to buy an unfinished game.

Well, here's the good news: We've just received additional funding from our publisher, so we no longer need Early Access to finance the rest of development.

So...instead of releasing an unfinished game this year, we're aiming to launch the complete, polished 1.0 version in 2027, with all 6 vampire classes, 270 skills (including upgrades), thralls, and the rest of the planned features that haven't even been showcased yet - all included from day one.

It wasn't an easy decision, obviously. Asking you to wait even longer is a big deal, especially after all these years. I know many of you have had this game wishlisted for years now! The decision ultimately came down to: what benefits the players more? I believe, launching the game in its finished form does.

My goal with Bloody Hell Hotel has always been to make...well...the most ambitious first-person simulation game in existence. I know, it sounds absurd. But I wanted it to guide every decision throughout development, because that's the only way we'll ever get close to it. Other than that, I don't take this ambition (or myself) too seriously. I just take the work of pursuing it very, very seriously.

Will we succeed with this ridiculous goal? I have no idea - that's for you to decide anyway. But I want you to know that we're doing everything we can to make Bloody Hell Hotel exactly that.

As always, thank you for your patience, your ideas, and all the enthusiasm over the years. More info and development updates will follow. We still have work to do before v1.0, but we're getting there.

Mr. Dev

Bloody Hell Hotel can be wishlisted on Steam here.