Hidetaka “Swery65” Suehiro and Goichi “Suda51” Suda finally revealed their collaborative game Hotel Barcelona with an official trailer at the Xbox TGS 2023 Digital Broadcast. The new game co-developed by Swery65’s White Owls and Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture will be available in 2024.
The trailer described Hotel Barcelona as a 2.5D slasher film parodic action game. The game will task the player to defeat serial killers from all around the U.S. who have gathered at the eponymous location. In the broadcast, Swery65 and Suda51 revealed that the Overlook Hotel from The Shining and a secluded hotel where the two stayed during an event in Banff, Canada served as inspirations for this game’s location.
The reveal trailer for Hotel Barcelona is available formally on the Xbox YouTube channel with English voiceovers. The game will also include a Japanese voice option.
Swery65 and Suda51 first revealed the collaboration project in 2019. Devolver Digital and Siren creator Keiichiro Toyama also showed interest in joining the project. When the reveal trailer for the game showed up at TGS 2023, the logo of Swery65’s company White Owls appeared as the primary creator.
Hotel Barcelona will be released for Xbox Series X and S in 2024.
