Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami

**“***In this cursed hotel, a livestream for their lives begins.***”**
— **Trailer tagline,*****Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami***

**Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami** (廃深, *Haishin*) is a survival horror action-adventure game developed and published by Qureate. It was officially released on April 15th, 2021 worldwide for Nintendo Switch. The PC version was released on June 10th, 2021 in steam.

## Summary

In this side-scrolling action-adventure game, you'll need to scour the inside of an abandoned hotel, looking for clues to solve the mystery of the hotel and ensure your escape from a mysterious, murderous mascot intent to kill. The fate of the girls' lives will change dramatically depending on your actions in the game.

## Story

Online streamers Mio Ikoma, Nana Sakurai and Azusa Shiraishi travel to the locally famous haunted resort, the Hotel Izanami, at Nana's request to shoot a video there. It would be a film shoot at an average haunted location with no particular legend attached. To finish shooting without a hitch and get an end result that was vaguely horror-esque...was all they wanted.

During filming, Mio gets separated from the group, and suddenly gets attacked by a mascot costume that has come to life. From that point on, the trapped girls are at the mercy of numerous horrors throughout the hotel. Why is a mascot trying to harm them, and why have they been shut in to the hotel with no escape? Can the three girls escape from the hotel with their lives?

## Gameplay

■ Run from the mysterious mascot chasing you, and escape from the abandoned hotel!

While exploring the inside of an abandoned hotel, a mascot swinging a bloody hatchet suddenly appears and starts chasing after the three streamers!

When you encounter the mascot, run away quickly, hide yourself, and escape from its pursuit. One hit from the mascot's hatchet will lead to instant death (game over).

■ Use hints and items to help you find clues on how to escape!

While exploring the hotel ruins, you will come across various items and hints.

Search every nook and cranny of the rooms to get items and hints that will help you survive!

Some items will greatly change the fates of the girls...

■ Is this a curse?! The livestreaming girls are cornered by the descent of a life-threatening horror!

You'll be met with various frights while exploring the hotel ruins. Investigate your surroundings to get hints and use items you find to help the girls escape from desperate situations.

You can even touch the girls, regardless of their plight... Is this also the work of the curse?!

## Synopsis

### Setting

The game takes place at Hotel Izanami, a haunted famous resort in N Prefecture, Tokaezuka City that has been abandoned for a long time ago where the girls will be shooting a video for horror film.

### Characters

Livestream: Escape from Hotel Izanami features three female playable protagonists: Mio Ikoma, Nana Sakurai and Azusa Shiraishi.

* **Mio Ikoma** is a member of the livestreaming group Nana Channel. She was withdrawn and lonely who had no friends until she was approached by Nana and Azusa who invite her to join their livestreaming channel after noticing her being alone in unhappiness. While overcoming some of her shyness after joining in on the two's videos, she still prefers to work behind the scenes, without appearing on camera.
* **Nana Sakurai** is the face and founder of Nana Channel and also Azusa's close friend. While she originally started streaming reaction videos as a hobby, as her audience grew, she became more conscious of the number of views on her videos. The filming and planning of her current videos reflects her new-found resolve that anything goes as long as it gets views. She has a goal of reaching to one million subscribers of her channel.
* **Azusa Shiraishi** is the mediator of Nana Channel and Nana's close friend. She is gifted with brain, brawns, and beauty. She has a large number of female fans who appear to be fond of her. At Nana's request, Azusa started helping with video editing and filming, but once Nana got it into her head to start raising her female follower count, Azusa was dragged into appearing in videos as well. Ever since, Azusa has been making more and more appearances in Nana's videos.

The game features only one main enemy:

* **Piggy Mascot** is a murderous piggy mascot character from the Fantasy Land who somehow came to life and suddenly appeared before Mio and the girls while they were filming in the leisure hotel. He appears and disappears without warning, chasing the girls with a hatchet as his weapon in attempt to kill them.

## Gallery

### Miscellaneous

The poster that is parody to 2017 horror film, It.Artwork for Steam.

### Main Menu

Title screenMain menuGame settings.Title Screen (PC Version)Main menu (PC Version)
### Gameplay

**Nintendo Switch**

**PC Version**

### Trailers

【Nintendo Switch】Livestream- Escape from Hotel Izanami Trailer -ENG-【Nintendo Switch】Livestream- Escape from Hotel Izanami Teaser Trailer -ENG-【Nintendo Switch】探灵直播 预告片2 -简体中文-【Nintendo Switch】廃深 トレーラー -JPN-【Nintendo Switch】探靈直播 預告片-繁體中文-【Nintendo Switch】廃深 ティザートレーラー -JPN-
## Trivia

* The Japanese name of the game translates to "Abandoned".
* Qureate uploaded a photo of this game's poster in his twitter page that is parody to 2017's horror film, It.
* The illustration art images were made by Yam2344.
* This is Qureate's first game to not feature a male protagonist and not a dating simulator.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/livestream-escape-from-hotel-izanami-switch/
2. ↑ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1523400/Livestream\_Escape\_from\_Hotel\_Izanami/
3. ↑ https://www.gematsu.com/2021/03/livestream-escape-from-hotel-izanami-teaser-trailer-details-and-screenshots
4. ↑ https://www.exophase.com/game/livestream-escape-from-hotel-izanami-steam/prices/
5. ↑ https://qureate.net/haishin/en/