Ghost Month: Motel 49 (Tháng Cô Hồn)

Download free demo — Windows / macOS

16+ · Horror with jump scares and flashing lights.

GHOST MONTH: MOTEL 49 — FREE DEMO (nights 1-3, about 35-40 minutes)

Check IDs. Count cash. Don’t turn around.

It’s Ghost Month in Vietnam. You work the night desk of Motel 49, a roadside hourly motel in the Mekong Delta. Check each guest’s ID, their money and the lobby camera, then hand over a key or refuse them.

The motel stays open till 5 a.m. Every guest needs a room. Not every guest is still alive.

The rules taped to the desk

1. Light the incense before opening up. Relight it if it goes out.
2. Pays with joss paper: refuse.
3. ID expired before 2000: refuse.
4. Not on the lobby camera: refuse.

The list gets longer every night.

Your shift

• A young woman in a white áo dài at your window: "My husband booked a room."
• An old woman only asks to rest a while. The lobby camera shows an empty counter. Not every ghost is out to scare you.
• Behind you, a whisper: "Hey… turn around." Mom always said: don't.
• The lights dip and the red stool by the altar rattles. "Chair: Nope nope nope. Pray, man, PRAY!"
• The rooms are full, so you nap in 101. Someone lies down beside you.
• A man checks in with his "colleague." Then his wife arrives, and the yard camera catches three of them leaving on one motorbike.

And somewhere in the night, a guest insists you dance with her.

Rain on a tin roof, offerings on the pavement, a lobby TV stuck on "breaking news," smeary PS1 graphics. Made in Vietnam by one developer.

The demo: nights 1-2 in full, night 3 stops at exactly 03:00. You'll see why.
Full game: 7 nights to the full moon, 5 endings, planned for 2027. Follow to hear when night 4 opens.

When you're done, leave one line below: did you turn around?

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Content notice: recommended for ages 16+. Jump scares with sudden loud sounds and flickering lights (Gentle mode reduces both). Themes of death and the dead, Vietnamese Ghost Month customs, and an hourly-motel setting with adult situations implied, never shown. No nudity, no gore. A work of fiction.
Gentle mode is in Settings. English and Vietnamese; every line of dialogue is on screen as text.

Download: Windows or macOS. Only download from this page; copies elsewhere may carry malware.

Controls
Keyboard + mouse: WASD/arrows move · mouse look · E or left click interact · R rules note · Tab/Shift+Tab ledger · Esc pause.
Gamepad: left stick move · right stick look · A interact · B back · Y rules note · LB/RB ledger · Menu pause.

Install (not notarized yet)
Windows: "Windows protected your PC" › "More info" › "Run anyway".
macOS: open the app once, click Done, then System Settings › Privacy & Security › "Open Anyway". macOS 14 or older: right-click › Open › Open. If it says "is damaged", run this in Terminal, then open again:
xattr -cr "/path/to/Ghost Month.app"

Privacy: the game sends anonymous gameplay data (the nights you reach, your choices, playtime, settings) to PostHog in the United States. It is on by default; turn it off any time in Settings, "Send anonymous gameplay data".

About AI
Generative AI was used for most 3D models and characters, some textures, music and sound effects, dialogue drafts, and coding assistance. Nothing is generated by AI while you play.