Gamers check back in to ‘Habbo Hotel’ as coronavirus refuge

With a layout reminiscent of classic video games, Habbo Hotel consists of rooms that players can decorate and where they can meet other players to chat or play games. They can also join virtual parties in search of new acquaintances.

HELSINKI: Habbo Hotel, a hit online networking game more than a decade ago, is drawing back hundreds of thousand of players as locked-down millennials look to rediscover a childhood favourite, its Finnish maker said.

"Our traffic has tripled over the past month. The exact user number growth figure is 213% since Feb 25," game maker Sulake's chief executive Valtteri Karu told Reuters, adding that this included hundreds of thousands of new and returning users.