I could never have predicted the latest management sim hit: run a hotel where death gods are cute anime girls

gamesradar.com:

Hotel management sim Yog-Sothoth's Yard strikes me as Cult of the Lamb with all the combat stuff replaced with cute anime girls and some business decisions, and it's made quite a name for itself on Steam.

From the hard-to-pronounce title to the abundance of eyeballs and tentacles, there's more than a bit of Lovecraftian horror about Yog-Sothoth's Yard. You play as some presumably otherworldly being who's inherited an ancient villa now repurposed as a hotel for decidedly underworldly guests. 

Your hotel's employees include a "bioroid" maid named Little Leaf, death-in-training Tlipoca, red dragon alchemist Yevna, and spirit-hunter-turned-chef Haa Lou Ling. Chinese developer Bone Nail also promises "there is a variety of unique NPCs with a wide range of different races, appearances, and personalities," with a total of 21 possible endings. 

This game is sitting somewhere between a management sim, dating sim, and visual novel, from what I can gather. On the business side, you oversee furnishings, cooking, gardening, building expansions, alchemy, and mining (which looks a lot like straight-up minesweeper). 

This is pretty typical resource management stuff, and all the accompanying art looks nice, but I'm more interested in the Oracles that you draft roguelike-style to alter the course of your business, partly because this seems to lean a bit more into the Old Gods motif. You might choose between a boost of restaurant guests, VIP hotel guests, exploration stamina, or a lump sum of money to jump-start the week, illustrated here as random cards featuring various monsters. 

The game's eclectic mix of genres and themes both cute and creepy has been extremely well-received. I've been eyeing this game since its release a week ago,