Overview
This guide is aimed at providing a clear overview of what is necessary to unlock all the achievements associated with Bad Hotel, as well as providing general hints and tips along the way. Hope it helps!
Introduction
This is not a guide on how to complete each and every mission/chapter, but rather a tool on how to unlock Steam achievements associated with the game. There are other achievement guides available on the community hub, but no written explanation for those whom prefer a literary guide as opposed to a video walkthrough.
There are a total of 13 achievements with various tasks and objectives at hand. Some achievements are a walk in the park or will unlock passively as you play, others may require some grinding effort as you will (or have already) come to discover.
Basic Hints & Tips
Below is a list of basic hints and tips to help optimise your chances of success against enemy bombardment.
- Room types: There are six room types with upgraded versions of the same room category appearing in later missions and chapters. The upgraded buildings offer increased income (rental rooms only), increased health, increased fire rate, multi-fire functionality, faster healing properties (hospital rooms only) and some other useful benefits. You can identify the basic and upgraded rooms based on their value and appearance. Differentiate between rooms and use it to your advantage when placing them.
- Underground hotel: It may not be obvious at first but the game allows you to build in all four directions (technically eight directions) as long as you make a connection to the main hotel building or a neighbouring room. You don’t always have to build upwards or sideways. In fact, if you really want to succeed in later missions it will almost be essential to construct southwards underground. This method not only allows you to expand and cover more ground, but also protects all rooms from incoming enemy fire – especially the hospital room which cannot replenish health and costs a fair bit. Just be careful not to lose your main hotel or the rooms protecting it.
- Breaking connections: It is always useful to respond quickly when a room is destroyed due to heavy enemy bombardment. However, a quick response may often cause a misplacement of rooms and thus either expose your main hotel or break the order of a streamline structure for those with OCD. If a building above or below it is destroyed, then so too will the attached buildings without the need for further enemy attention. Be aware of your connections to avoid these simple mistakes.
Basic Achievements
Description: 1st level completed
Complete the first level. Should be simple enough without the need for a descriptive walkthrough.
Description: 5,000 enemies destroyed
Destroy 5,000 enemies across any number of missions. You will not unlock this passively by the end of the main story, therefore it will be necessary to replay the campaign in its entirety or certain missions which you feel would be less tiresome to replay until you drop 5,000 enemies.
Boss Achievements
Follow the construction order on the images below to complete each boss encounter (click to enlarge). Colours correspond to rooms and numbers indicate the order they should be constructed in. Stars (denoted as *) indicate rooms which may be destroyed and thus will need to be replaced once sufficient funds are available.
Description: Beat boss 1-5
Description: Beat boss 2-5
Description: Beat boss 3-5
Description: Beat boss 4-5
Description: Beat boss 5-5
Challenge Achievements
The following six achievements you can obtain from chapter 3, mission 1 (denoted “mission 3-1”). The idea is to start off with three rental rooms and two gun rooms with hospitals attached underneath (see image below – the numbers indicate the order in which they should be constructed). You will lose some rooms during the wave but nothing more than the two gun rooms and possibly a rental room or two. DO NOT replace the gun rooms with more gun rooms. Instead, replace them with rental rooms.
- (a) Top Trump & Thrifty Builder: Follow the instructions above. Keep attaching rental rooms for greater income. You should be able to add quite a fair amount of rooms without having to restart.
- (b) Bulletstorm & Trigger Happy: Keep adding rental and hospital rooms until you have roughly 25 rentals and 8 hospital rooms. Then build 15 rooms leading to the right side of the map, and attach as many ice rooms as it can take. The ice rooms do not inflict damage, therefore you can leave the game alone for roughly an hour (depending on the number of ice rooms you placed). Check Steam achievements page every once in a while to keep track of both achievements.
Description: 10 level high hotel
You must construct a 10 floor hotel. Building upwards into the sky or down into the ground contributes towards this achievement so long as you have 10 floors altogether. Feel free to explore both methods.
Description: 20 level high hotel
See “Tenement” achievement for details.
Description: Fire 500 rounds in a level
You can either choose to unlock this passively as you play through the game, or head over to mission 3-1 and follow the steps detailed above. With an abundance of ice rooms attached to the hotel, you will generate an excess of rounds in the level and will unlock the achievement shortly thereafter.
Description: Finish level with over $2000
This is quite a difficult achievement to obtain unless you have a handful of hospital rooms healing neighbouring rooms, such as the method detailed above for mission 3-1. All of the rental rooms you place will provide an abundance of income and therefore generate an endless revenue stream for your hotel. You can easily collect more than $2000 using the above method.
Description: 2000 rooms
This may require multiple playthroughs and some grinding effort to achieve, but the process can be made less painful through the above method. Construct as many rental rooms (or ice rooms because they only cost $250) as the map can take without killing the remaining enemies. You should be able to place between 200-350 rooms per replay.
Description: Fire 100,000 rounds in total
Easy way: Follow the method detailed above. Hard way: Grind every level in the game.
End of Guide & Thanks
Thank you for reading this achievement guide for Bad Hotel. I hope it provides further insight into what is needed to unlock certain achievements which may not be obvious from the get go or from other guides on the hub. If you notice any errors, have tips or suggestions, feel free to express them in the comments below. Thank you and happy gaming!