{"id":129321,"date":"2022-10-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140064"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:00:00","slug":"welcome-to-empyreum-brings-overcooked-style-gameplay-to-hotel-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/28\/welcome-to-empyreum-brings-overcooked-style-gameplay-to-hotel-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Empyreum Brings Overcooked-Style Gameplay To Hotel Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df2206e7018fb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df2206e7018fb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df2206e7018fb\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"K-JKvNPcIo8\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Hound Picked Games has announced that it is teaming up with first-time developer Tapioca Games on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/welcome_to_empyreum\">Welcome to Empyreum<\/a> &#8211; a new chaotic hotel management game with the multiplayer mechanics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/overcooked_special_edition\">Overcooked<\/a>. The title will be heading to Switch in <strong>early 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Couch co-op has really seen a boom in the past few years thanks to the likes of Overcooked and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/moving_out\">Moving Out<\/a>. Chaotically completing everyday tasks while shouting orders at each other has become a mainstay of any good party and the Tapioca Games team looks to continue this joy.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Empyreum doesn&#8217;t look like it is going to reinvent the wheel in this genre of co-op &#8211; you frantically run through a series of levels, avoiding obstacles and completing challenges before the time limit runs out &#8211; but more ways to play together is always welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The game can either be played in single player mode (<em>boo!<\/em>) or with up to three friends (<em>yay!<\/em>) and will see you scrubbing floors, delivering food and chasing alien babies through a series of ever-wackier hotel floors &#8211; seriously, which health and safety inspector approved a room filled with lava?<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the game&#8217;s features, check out the information from Hound Picked Games below.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A Very Special Hotel&#8230;<br \/><\/strong>Tommy, a narcissistic influencer; Miriam, a desperate mother; Elisabeth, a lucky girl, and Apolo, a depressed musician, arrive at the Empyreum Hotel, an enchanted place that takes away what they love most.<br \/>To get it back, they must work, carrying out different tasks, floor after floor until they reach Beatriz&#8217;s office, the hotel manager. <em>Welcome to Empyreum<\/em> features a unique setting for the genre: a very special hotel with a funny sense of humor that complements an elaborated narrative.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>4 Players Coop Fun<br \/><\/strong>You can book a room just for you or bring your friends! Up to 4 players can work together in order to control the madness of the hotel.<br \/>The better the coordination and communication of the team, the cleaner the rooms will be and, therefore, the happier the guests will be during their stay. Remember: the guest is always right! (even if they are lazy sloths or gluttonous gummy bears&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Hound Picked Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>While the graphics and mechanics might not look up to Overcooked-levels just yet, we are big fans of this style of party play so we are excited to learn more information in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of Welcome to Empyreum? Run on down to the comments to let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Hound Picked Games has announced that it is teaming up with first-time developer Tapioca Games on Welcome to Empyreum &#8211; a new chaotic hotel management game with the multiplayer mechanics of Overcooked. The title will be heading to Switch in early 2023. Couch co-op has really seen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}