All Species Welcome

Klaus the stick insect swings the hotel's front wall open like a dollhouse, and six floors light up at once: a ladybird unpacking, the chef glazing a sphere, rows of bamboo rooms sealed with mud and leaf, silk glowing on the top floor. A new stamp lands in the guest book.

The Grand Hotel Entomologique is an old wooden insect hotel in a garden, built from bamboo, drilled logs, bark, pine cones and straw, with 247 rooms and only seven residents left. You are one of its new keepers, shrunk to the size of its guests, in your own avatar with a moss-green apron. Klaus, the tall concierge in his purple waistcoat, runs the desk; Madame Coccinelle takes you on; Chef Rouleau runs the restaurant, Le Bousier; and the Trio play the lounge every night at eight. Herr Doktor Hummel inspects, and the Hornet, a critic whose highest word is "Adequate", comes to taste.

Every guest arrives with a suitcase, a wish and an answer you can find. Fit a room with the right bore of bamboo or bark, plant the flower that brings each species, hand over a key and grant the wish: a meal, a quiet room, the nightly music. Five jobs keep the hotel running, front desk, restoration, garden, kitchen and lounge, and anyone can switch at any time. A hotel day runs from the dawn dew to the midnight summary.

The hotel has thirty days to prove it should stay. The Notice is a story season that moves only while someone plays: carry paperwork to the Authority's little green door, reinforce the pine cone that holds up three floors, survive an inspection and a tasting, and win the tribunal with the community you built. The season cannot be lost; if the case is short, the tribunal simply recesses.

The hotel has six floors and a cellar, played up close or through the open front wall, and a garden at insect scale with flower beds, a sundial, a greenhouse eave and a hearing chamber in the old wall. Fill a Guest Book of 42 species and about 72 stamps, from red mason bees and seven-spot ladybirds to emperor moths and glow-worms. Play alone or with up to three friends in your hotel.

Restore rooms to bring new species, earn pollen and Welcome, and watch the hotel's front show who nests there. Klaus's Morning Round offers a small tip once a day, sealed bee tubes pay a little rent while you are away, and nothing decays. After day thirty the hotel carries on, with a Saturday update and a monthly event that follows the garden's year, from Spring Hatch to Moth Nights.

Based on The Grand Hotel Entomologique by Carmen Reyes: the stick-insect concierge, the 247 rooms, the hard-to-please critic, the thirty-day notice and the sign that gives the game its name all come from the novel.

All Species Welcome is a finished game design for Roblox, and Greenlight Games is looking for a studio partner to build it.