Monster Motel

Monster Motel is a cosy roadside motel under a purple night sky, and every guest is a friendly monster. You are the night staff: a tiny ghost bellhop in a red cap with a gold band, floating from room to room with room service in their mittens. Between jobs a flock of bats flaps across the screen, and the number in the top bar tells you which room you have reached.

Each job is one word and one look. BRUSH! is rubbing a vampire's teeth clean while their grin keeps getting wider. WRAP! is circling round a mummy to wind them back up before a kitten unrolls them. TUCK! is a swipe up to pull the blanket back over a sleeping dragon, COMB! is swiping through a werewolf's knots the way the fur grows, and SHH! is holding a mitten over a snoring guest's mouth while the owl inspector walks past the window, but not for too long. FEED! brings tomato juice to the vampire, a bone to the werewolf and a sock to the blob, who swallows anything carried too close, and PEEK! is keeping your eye on a shy sock monster while the laundry baskets shuffle. When a job goes wrong it is slapstick: a foamy sneeze, a puff of soot, a werewolf frizzed up all over.

A run is endless: the guests keep calling until all three room keys have dropped off their hooks, one for every job that goes wrong. Each room is a little faster than the last, up to about twice the starting pace, with a BUSY NIGHT! sign every five rooms. Every tenth room is the VIP GUEST: a tall cyclops in a top hat inspects the suite through their monocle, and you tap everything out of place, from a crooked painting to a sock on the lamp, before the monocle gets there. Tidy the lot for FIVE STARS!, a new job title, from Night Porter and Bellhop up to Ruler of the Night, and a lost key back. The GUEST BOOK shows the room you reached, your best room is your high score and is saved in your browser, and the GUESTS list lets you practise any job you have met.