In Haunted Space Hotel: Manager, players take on the roles of rival Artificial Intelligences deployed by the Great Engram Collective. Your directive: dominate the volatile new market created by a recent "Ghost Wave" that has turned a quiet sector of space into the galaxy's premier supernatural tourist trap. This is an intensely competitive game of strategic planning and opportunistic aggression. Players use an innovative Action Hex to perform actions, choosing to either "Focus" on a single task for a massive turn or "Diversify" to remain flexible. You will Renovate your station with lucrative Amenities, Research new technologies, and Advertise to attract valuable clientele from six unique alien Factions. However, victory isn't just about building the most efficient hotel—it's about ensuring your rivals fail. This is a game of perfect information where you will weaponize guests, manipulate the finite supply of rooms and permits to starve your competition, and unleash spectral anomalies to haunt their docks. The first AI to prove its absolute market dominance by accumulating 24 Snohe wins, but the Guest Deck acts as a game clock, and if it runs out, the wealthiest AI claims victory. Only the most cunning and adaptive AI will be deemed the ultimate Hotelier. —description from the publisher

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