And this taste of multiplayer mischief has Swery’s head percolating.

This game won’t be his last dipped toe in the multiplayer ocean, he told us.

It’s just a tease.

Two players bet life and limb at a round, scarlet table with ornate chairs decorated like human rib cages.

He didn’t say much more about future plans in our chat.

But whatever multiplayer mayhem is marinating in Swery’s head, it isn’t related to that.

Even if the nature of making art means there’s always something left undone.

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“Big companies make AAA titles by investing money,” he said.

For now, let’s play Death Game Hotel together and cheer up!

Hang in there!"

A player of a deadly card game loses her teeth to a bad bet.

Death Game Hotel is for saleon the Meta storeif you’re Oculus’d up.

A player of Death Game Hotel looks confidently across the table.

Five players face off in a dangerous card game in Death Game Hotel.

Players of a poker-like game sit around a blood-spattered table.