Game intelligence STEAM ANALYZED
Hotel Investigation 09
Cogware Games, Silvertech, Squeaks D'Corgeh
An archival of a strange game that cropped up online. Play as Howlz, explore the hotel's halls, and rescue the captive under the building.
Overview
A quick look at the completed Steam page analysis for Hotel Investigation 09.
What stands out
Key strengths and opportunities based on the saved analysis.
Strength
The camera mechanic gives the page a concrete identity
The page specifies that the camera reveals secrets, translates scrambled languages, stuns enemies and communicates with the captive.These concrete functions make the investigation premise more distinctive than a generic horror description.
Strength
The short description communicates the basic player proposition
It identifies the archival nature, Howlz, hotel exploration and the rescue objective in one sentence.A visitor can understand the basic scenario and goal without reading the full description.
Opportunity
The About section delays the playable premise
It begins with a long quoted forum post before stating that HI-09 is a web game and explaining the player's role.Visitors must process fictional history before learning what they will actually do, weakening first-pass comprehension.
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Steam Analysis
How well does the Steam page communicate and convert?
Solid foundation
95.0% analysis coverage The portion of the Steam page that had enough information to assess.?
The page communicates a clear horror-investigation premise with a strong archival/ARG identity and unusually specific camera mechanics. Its main weakness is information hierarchy: extensive lore and historical framing appear before the player-facing explanation, and the official genre classification understates the horror focus.
How this game compares ?
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A comparison with other Steam pages that AdsForGames has analyzed.
Steam page scores compared with the analyzed games in AdsForGames.
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The share of analyzed Steam pages scoring at or below this game.
The current Steam Page Score for Hotel Investigation 09 is 74.9/100, compared with a dataset median of 80.8 across 2,468 analyzed Steam pages.
Based on 2,468 analyzed Steam pages. Area samples may differ when a score is unavailable.
Eight areas of the Steam page
Scores use the current saved analysis. Each comparison uses that area's own sample.
Clarity and positioning
75.0 / 100Dataset median 87.5 · Below median
Based on 2,468 scores · 20.6 percentileDifferentiation
81.3 / 100Dataset median 87.5 · Below median
Based on 2,468 scores · 37.8 percentileCopy and information hierarchy
58.3 / 100Dataset median 75.0 · Below median
Based on 2,468 scores · 16.4 percentileMedia readiness
100.0 / 100Dataset median 100.0 · Around median
Based on 2,467 scores · 50.1 percentileDiscoverability and classification
68.8 / 100Dataset median 75.0 · Below median
Based on 2,468 scores · 35.8 percentileProduct offer and release status
62.5 / 100Dataset median 75.0 · Below median
Based on 2,468 scores · 30.5 percentileConsistency and trust
83.3 / 100Dataset median 75.0 · Above median
Based on 2,468 scores · 63.4 percentilePage hygiene
62.5 / 100Dataset median 75.0 · Below median
Based on 2,466 scores · 36.7 percentileVisibility
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Data freshness
When each saved source was last collected.
- Steam
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