Haunted Hotel: The X > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

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5 / 5

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PostedDecember 11, 2015

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5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

Freddie Toppan and his wife revamped what was once a nursery, into the Lexington Hotel. Well, that's always a bad idea, and sure enough, Freddie was brutally murdered after his wife died mysteriously, and the Hotel was shut down and abandoned. Well, not entirely abandoned, because there are things that go bump in the night, a creepy little girl who doesn't seem to know she's dead, and then there's ...Show more

Freddie Toppan and his wife revamped what was once a nursery, into the Lexington Hotel. Well, that's always a bad idea, and sure enough, Freddie was brutally murdered after his wife died mysteriously, and the Hotel was shut down and abandoned. Well, not entirely abandoned, because there are things that go bump in the night, a creepy little girl who doesn't seem to know she's dead, and then there's the Nanny, whom everyone fears. Naturally your sister Samantha, couldn't resist filming a documentary about the ghosts that haunt the Lexington Hotel, but these aren't your average ghosts, these ghosts are angry and quite deadly too. When Samantha fails to return home, you must enter the Hotel of Horrors and save sis before she becomes a permanent resident of the Lexington Hotel!

I love the creepy vibe the graphics instill upon you, every scene has something going on in the background, hands that burst through glass, ghosts that shouldn't be in reflections, and spiders that spew out of crevices, not to mention all the moaning, groaning, creaking and pleas for help, it's really cool. It's a good thing Samantha left a backup camera that allows you to playback footage she was filming for a timeline of events. As you find cassettes throughout the Hotel, you place them in the camera, press play to watch the footage, and then press the print button to receive a photo that will be used in the same area to find hidden niches, clues and instructions, when matched with the correct scene. The Collector's Edition has several Achievements to earn, 34 Collectible Flower Petals, 21 Morphing Objects and several Morphing Orphan Photographs, and in my opinion is the much better version.

The Hidden Object Scenes are mostly Silhouetted Shape finds, but some are interactive list finds and even scenes that task you with uncovering 6 identical items. There are also several Zoom Zone's with small HOP's where you find fragments or multiples of the same item.

The Mini Games are around every nook and cranny, the only complaint I have is that they are all super simple and can be done within seconds. Below are brief descriptions of some of the games you will come across during the game:

1) Set 3 different knobs to the correct positions using diagrams.
2) Push down all buttons in the correct order by trial and error.
3) Paint a canvas using a color coded symbol method.
4) Swap puzzle pieces to create an image.
5) Lift four levers to the upright position, some levers affect others.
6) Enter the code shown in diagram.
7) Recreate an image from torn photo pieces.
8) Place all weights onto the scales so that they are all even.

The Collector's Edition has 10 Wallpapers, 10 Concept Art pictures, 4 Music Soundtracks, Achievements, Morphing Orphan Photographs, 24 Collectible Flower Petals, 21 Morphing Objects, 12 replayable Mini Games, 15 replayable HOP's, a Secret Room, a built in Strategy Guide and a Bonus Chapter, enjoy! Show less

I recommend this game!

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What is the Legend of the Lexington Hotel????

PostedDecember 11, 2015

mrm2006

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

Based on the Beta, SE and CE Demos.

Once again, a great storyline. Your friend has gone missing in the Lexington Hotel while investigating the Hotel's Legend. wooooooooo.

Graphics were absolutely amazing! Ghosts popping out at you, pictures that aren't just pictures. LOVED it! Voice overs, music and sound fx were great as well.

Casual, Advanced, Hardcore and Custom difficulties.

HOGs were ...Show more

Based on the Beta, SE and CE Demos.

Once again, a great storyline. Your friend has gone missing in the Lexington Hotel while investigating the Hotel's Legend. wooooooooo.

Graphics were absolutely amazing! Ghosts popping out at you, pictures that aren't just pictures. LOVED it! Voice overs, music and sound fx were great as well.

Casual, Advanced, Hardcore and Custom difficulties.

HOGs were mainly list type with a silhouette thrown in for good measure - lol. Not tremendously interactive and no alternate game. Mini Games were quite fun.

Interactive map and a camera that plays back cassettes for you.

This is a great standalone game (don't have to own/played the previous 9 games), great for beginners through experts, great storyline that flowed very well. Perfect if it would have come out for Halloween instead of the Holidays. Just sayin'.
If for whatever reason you don't opt for the CE, the SE won't disappoint.

Join me in finding out about the Legend of the Lexington Hotel.

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I recommend this game!

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CAN YOU SAVE SAMANTHA FROM THE ANGER THAT DWELLS IN THIS HAUNTED HOTEL

PostedDecember 11, 2015

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

Haunted Hotel The X is the eighth game in the series and a truly creepy mystery. Your sister, Samantha, has apparently gone missing after letting you know that she is on assignment writing a story about a local haunted hotel. Terrific brother that you are, you set off to investigate what has happened to sis. Once you arrive at the old hotel, you begin to realize that things are not what they seem ...Show more

Haunted Hotel The X is the eighth game in the series and a truly creepy mystery. Your sister, Samantha, has apparently gone missing after letting you know that she is on assignment writing a story about a local haunted hotel. Terrific brother that you are, you set off to investigate what has happened to sis. Once you arrive at the old hotel, you begin to realize that things are not what they seem and that Samantha has apparently become mired in a whole lot of ectoplasm.

The game offers four modes of gameplay: Casual, Advanced, Hardcore and Custom. If you select the custom mode you can click various settings on or off depending on how you like to play. Most important for me is the setting for hint and skip times. In this case the time range for both settings is between 15 and 90 seconds. Another option this developer includes in its games is the option to either continue or reset the game when starting to play after exiting a previous gameplay session. The graphics are excellent with some awesome special effects that enhance the ghostly creepiness of the storyline. The sound package is wonderful including the lip-synced voiceovers.

Your tools include a journal and an interactive transporter type map that are present at the beginning of the game. You have a video camera where you can view footage after you find a cassette. I don’t want to explain the significance of the camera because if you play the demo you will discover how to use it. As they say, discovery is half the fun.

The first HOP is a silhouette type, followed by the standard list type. I didn’t find any HOPS that were the strictly interactive type although some did require minor interaction to find items. The puzzles seem typical with the first one being a very simple dial puzzle and the next a slider type. I am sure the puzzles will increase in difficulty as the game moves forward.

The extras in the CE release of the game include collectibles, morphing objects, and achievements. The other extras include wallpapers, concept art, music, replay of mini-games and HOPS, the secret room, bonus gameplay, and the strategy guide.

Overall, I loved this game. Foremost, the game had a storyline that sucked me in and held my interest. The pace was excellent and the game didn’t seem to drag along without capturing my interest. I love a good ghost story and with Haunted Hotel the X we certainly have one. It looks like the devs have gone back to the roots of the first Haunted Hotel games and come up with a wonderful ghostly mystery. If the game has any shortcoming it is that the puzzles are just not as challenging as I would like. That being said, we all have different tastes in games and the puzzles might not be your thing. Even though I loved the game you might not agree. Please try the demo and see if Haunted Hotel The X is a game that you will enjoy. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Haunted Hotel The X is my Favorite of this Series!!!

PostedDecember 11, 2015

skullfun

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Haunted Hotel: The X Collector's Edition

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5 / 5

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5 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

In Elephant Games' creepy hidden-object adventure Haunted Hotel: The X, your sister Samantha has gone missing while looking into the legends surrounding the derelict old Lexington Hotel, whose amenities include shuddering ghostly terrors and an isolated forest where nobody can hear you scream. Look, I'm just saying when a hotel's history contains a "brutal butchering", maybe stay elsewhere? But if ...Show more

In Elephant Games' creepy hidden-object adventure Haunted Hotel: The X, your sister Samantha has gone missing while looking into the legends surrounding the derelict old Lexington Hotel, whose amenities include shuddering ghostly terrors and an isolated forest where nobody can hear you scream. Look, I'm just saying when a hotel's history contains a "brutal butchering", maybe stay elsewhere? But if you want to find your sister, you'll have to brave the mysteries within, and hopefully survive long enough to get out of the 1970s. A tape player? VHS? Now that's scary! Haunted Hotel: The X has all your now-standard casual game mechanics... fully customiseable difficulty, a fast travel map, and collectibles like morphing objects and puzzle pieces for the achievement trackers. You'll click your way through areas, finding items to use and solving puzzles, while occasionally getting menaced by jump scares and demonic squirrels. As you might expect, there's a lot of backtracking... find your way forward blocked, go back to look for item to proceed, look for tools to attain said item, and repeat as necessary. It's formulaic, sure, but Elephant Games has that formula FINELY distilled. Nothing ever drags on too long, puzzles and hidden-object scenes are carefully spaced out so that you run into them at an even pace, and the spirits of vengeful lovers always know when to sob mournfully just out of sight. There are an awful lot of objects stuck in cracks that need to be jimmied out one way or another, but you're kept on edge throughout by some stellar sound design and creepy visual effects... some subtle, some startling. Hey, I'll put up with an unholy wail or three for any hidden-object game that lets me use an item more than once instead of tracking down something different for the same sort of task. You may find yourself reaching for the hint button occasionally, or simply referring to your map to see which area has active tasks for you, less because the game is difficult, and more because sometimes enough time elapses between discovering an obstacle or locked object and finding the item you need for it that you can forget it existed at all. Please, you expect me to remember I needed to saw through some bushes waaaaay back at the entrance? You know I'm a gamer. You know what that attention span is like. MORE ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT GOD. The story, apart from the rescue of your Darwin Award-winning sister, ultimately revolves around the spirit haunting the hotel, and you'll quickly start putting the pieces together as you find eerie scrawls, notes, and letters. Most of the plot initially feels like a fairly standard setup of an affair gone wrong, and, well, it kind of is, but there are enough twists to the way it's presented to keep you engrossed. It doesn't hurt either that the game is gorgeous, with rich colours and detailed environments. It's gory and freaky, sure, with bloody handprints and child's scribbles of people with their eyes scratched out, but the artwork is just so gorgeous and full of subtle animation like branches swaying in the wind, or faint faces swirling in fog, that it's easy to get smitten. I usually play games I'm reviewing in windowed mode, so I can take screenshots and write down notes "Don't forget to mention the morphing objects." "Is garlic bread an acceptable business expense?", but Haunted Hotel: The X might be the first casual game in a long time to make me switch to fullscreen at every opportunity to admire it... and, yeah, okay, to laugh at a few unintentionally hilarious scenes where people get thrown around like paper dolls by angry ghosts. I'm a terrible person, what do you want from me? LOL. But hey, I'm also a member who's reviewed a lot of hidden-object adventures over the years, and with its stellar presentation and solid gameplay, I also think Haunted Hotel: The X is well worth your time, and it's certainly the best entry into the series to date. It's scary and strange enough to appeal to horror fans without completely alienating everyone else {Grandmas like articulated spider skeleton dolls, right?}, and with a flair for drama and the unexpected, this is one ghoulish good game to be played in the dead of night. Enjoy! Show less

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WOW. Scarier than what I usually go for but I'm in love!

PostedJanuary 13, 2016

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5 / 5

Holy buckets, this game was INCREDIBLY good. I'm a little bummed now that I didn't decide to go for the CE, but it was one of those "pick it up with your free coupon" games and since it's not my normal genre I didn't splurge.

First of all--I like to know the scare factor before I'm going into a game like this, and if you're leery of trying it I'll say that I don't think it was that bad, ...Show more

Holy buckets, this game was INCREDIBLY good. I'm a little bummed now that I didn't decide to go for the CE, but it was one of those "pick it up with your free coupon" games and since it's not my normal genre I didn't splurge.

First of all--I like to know the scare factor before I'm going into a game like this, and if you're leery of trying it I'll say that I don't think it was that bad, especially (ironically) towards the second half of the game. There are some KILLER (haha) visuals at the start--reflections in mirrors, creepy shadows, bouncing balls that aren't really there, the whole nine yards.

But as soon as you make and help your first ally (a little over midway through the game), I think the entire game becomes less scary/suspenseful--there are still some good visuals, but they're mostly static (still a couple moving spider scares, but tbh they looked so fake that I wasn't afraid at all). I think some more hardcore 'scare factor' gamers might find that disappointing, but I thought it was well-paced and fit in with the storyline as a whole.

Other than that, I'm quite honestly speechless. Puzzles didn't feel too hard or too easy and were worth playing for the most part. The story wasn't crazy-new or inventive, but it was executed tremendously.

If you like the Mystery Trackers series, I think you'll like this game a lot. The video-cassette addition was very reminiscent of MT style, and the plot and pacing felt very MT but without the magicky-sciencey plot devices that MT hinges upon. Apparently this is a game in a series, and I'm definitely going to keep an open mind about the next one if the developers put as much love and care into crafting it as they did this one. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Great game! Beware to those that dislike rituals though.

PostedJanuary 2, 2016

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Haunted Hotel: The X

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5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

For me, this is one of the best spooky, jump out of my skin kind of fun games since "Fright". It's also a big improvement over the two previous "Haunted Hotel" games so thanks for listening developers! If you want a longer preview, go to YouTube and search for Haunted Hotel: X gameplay. I like Brain Games best because they don't talk.

I recommend this game!

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Another great Haunted Hotel

PostedJanuary 4, 2016

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5 / 5

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5 / 5

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4 / 5

Storyline

4 / 5

Totally enjoyed this version of Haunted Hotel. The animations, sounds and graphics were simply amazing in this one. Enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. Smooth gameplay with challenging puzzles and HOS for those who love those parts of the game.

Interesting "angry ghost" story but may be uncomfortable for those who are sensitive to the occult and/or spiders in some cases. I certainly give ...Show more

Totally enjoyed this version of Haunted Hotel. The animations, sounds and graphics were simply amazing in this one. Enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. Smooth gameplay with challenging puzzles and HOS for those who love those parts of the game.

Interesting "angry ghost" story but may be uncomfortable for those who are sensitive to the occult and/or spiders in some cases. I certainly give this a 5 out of 5 and highly recommend. Custom setting lets you set the hint and skip to refresh quickly so the game moves along well. Transporter map is excellent. Highly recommend and you certainly get your money's worth. Not sure if I would recommend playing this while alone in a dark house on a stormy night though. :) Show less

I recommend this game!

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Love the the little "gotcha" moments!

PostedFebruary 7, 2017

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5 / 5

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5 / 5

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5 / 5

This a beautifully designed game. The graphics and music are great and I love the long playing time. I will be playing more of these.

I don't recommend this game.

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VERY GOOD!!

PostedFebruary 13, 2018

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5 / 5

First off: If you do not like looking at BLOOD, stay away from this one!!
This was good, everything "bloody" good!!
LOTS, LOTS to do; it went on and on!
This one makes for a very interesting, challenging story; perfect for holding and keeping your interest. Puzzles and HOs are challenging enough to keep you playing! (I love good puzzles!)
Graphics, maps, voices, all good.
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First off: If you do not like looking at BLOOD, stay away from this one!!
This was good, everything "bloody" good!!
LOTS, LOTS to do; it went on and on!
This one makes for a very interesting, challenging story; perfect for holding and keeping your interest. Puzzles and HOs are challenging enough to keep you playing! (I love good puzzles!)
Graphics, maps, voices, all good.
Good information; writing stays on page so that it can be read!
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I recommend this game!

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Nice Game with a Good Length

PostedApril 16, 2016

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4 / 5

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5 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

I just finished the whole game and I really enjoyed playing all of it except the last few scenes where it is all about exorcism. I skipped through those pretty quickly. So the 5 stars are for the game up until then.

Graphics were very nice.

Level of Challenge was perfect for me. I played on the Advanced Level for the first time ever and I only used the hint button a few times to figure out ...Show more

I just finished the whole game and I really enjoyed playing all of it except the last few scenes where it is all about exorcism. I skipped through those pretty quickly. So the 5 stars are for the game up until then.

Graphics were very nice.

Level of Challenge was perfect for me. I played on the Advanced Level for the first time ever and I only used the hint button a few times to figure out what I missed.

I enjoyed playing the mini-games. They were fun. The HOS were not very plentiful and when they did show up they were fun.

Overall a pleasant way to spend a few hours. Show less

I recommend this game!

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