Minotaur Hotel

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Minotaur Hotel
Developer(s)	Minoh Workshop
Publisher(s)	Minoh Workshop
Engine	Ren'Py
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows macOS Linux Android
Genre(s)	Visual novel
Mode(s)	Single-player
Cabinet
Arcade system
CPU
Sound
Display

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Minotaur Hotel is an in-development bara romance visual novel produced by Minoh Workshop. The game is distributed through Itch.io, where it has become one of its highest rated projects. It tells the story of a player character as he inherits a magical hotel where he finds the Minotaur from the Greek legend, Asterion, sentenced by the gods to spend eternity there.

According to the developers the story was inspired by different historical sources' paradoxical and opposing depictions of the Minotaur — either a cannibal hybrid or a semi-sacred being with divine properties.

Plot

File:MinoHotel ArgosInterrogation.png

Argos being interrogated by the player.

The story begins at an unspecified train station where the player meets an old man. After asking a few questions, including their name and background, the player is given the deed to a hotel. A few weeks later the player character arrives at the seemingly deserted and dilapidated hotel. Upon further inspection he finds signs of struggle, which lead him to opening the hotel's cold room where he finds a gravely injured minotaur who introduces himself as Asterion, the minotaur from the Greek myth.

It is revealed that as punishment for allowing Theseus to kill him Asterion was sentenced to be tortured in this magical realm under a human master. As centuries passed, however, by exploiting loopholes the place was converted into a hotel for those who are lost and have nowhere to go. The last master kicked out all the guests and shot the minotaur, leading to the place's current state. Asterion becomes the player character's servant and the two are tasked with restoring the hotel to its old glory.

In order to achieve this goal, the player must heal Asterion from his wounds and restore key parts of the hotel. This is complicated by the appearance of a snake named Argos, who calls himself the labyrinth's foreman and is tasked with incentivising the player character to torture Asterion.

Shortly after the first guests arrive at the hotel — a Japanese dragon named Kota and an American gryphon named Luke. They become permanent staff members. Afterwards a series of human guests appear. Asterion, still unused to so much stimuli after being locked for years, struggles to adapt. Meanwhile, Argos returns to again incentivise the player character to send Asterion to the valley in exchange for the means to fully heal him.

Gameplay

Minotaur Hotel's gameplay comes in the form of interactive fiction and management simulation. It affords the player a number of choices on how to treat the minotaur, Asterion, which are also integrated as mechanics. The player can send exploration parties to search the valley, a place where monsters lurk. Asterion can be sent to explore multiple times, which has an effect in his mental health and influences the path the story follows.

Beyond the exploration mechanic, the player can also manage his staff towards performing research and development to improve the hotel's facilities.

Asterion's appearance changes as he heals from his injuries and can be customised. Community consultations were done to collect suggestions.

The player can pick from among six backgrounds for the player character: Humanities, Tech, Leader, Arts, Math and Speedrunner. Each one offers different advantages in stats and unique dialogue choices. The Speedrunner background, however, is a joke route.

Development

Minotaur Hotel began under an interactive storytelling format known as "quest" where a quest master writes a story and readers suggest what should happen next. Readers could suggest ideas for guest characters, which were subsequently worked on by the writer and introduced in the story. A months after its initial publication, production began to translate the original draft into a visual novel format. Multiple writers came together, with nanoff acting as the programmer and artist.

The game's first version was released on September 7th, 2019. Updates were released sporadically, with a few months of wait time between them. By its third update, Minotaur Hotel had reached Itch.io's Top 100 Highest Rated games and as of August 2020 it stands in the Top 20. On October 23 2020 a second version of the game was released, called Minotaur Hotel: SFW Mode, that has no explicit adult content.

The development process of Minotaur Hotel has been documented publicly through DevLogs with resources like the Gay Furry Visual Novel Audience Survey and the Minotaur Hotel Writing Manual made available to the public.

Reception

Minotaur Hotel's release was met with little public response and no media attention, but over its first year of updates it gained popularity on Itch.io. By August 2020 it had risen to 9th highest rated game on the platform with an average score 4.95/5. It stands as the highest rated game in the Gay category.

External links

• Official page
• Minotaur Hotel at The Visual Novel Database

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