Habbo
Habbo is a long-running social MMO aimed largely at teens, built around the idea of hanging out in a virtual hotel. You create a pixel avatar (your “Habbo”), jump between public rooms, chat with other players, and spend most of your time expressing yourself through outfits, furniture, and themed spaces. Instead of combat or leveling in the traditional MMO sense, Habbo’s appeal comes from community-made hangouts, light activities, and the constant flow of new people to meet.
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Publisher: Sulake Corporation Playerbase: High Type: Social MMO Release Date: September 26, 2001 Pros: +Deep avatar and room customization. +Huge community presence. Cons: -Chat filters can be bypassed. -Moderation can feel inconsistent. |
Habbo Overview
Habbo (formerly Habbo Hotel) is a teen-oriented social MMO that has remained a recognizable name in online social spaces since launching in 2001. Over the years it has served as a large-scale hangout platform, with more than 300 million avatars created across its nine online communities, spanning over 150 countries. The core loop is simple: enter the hotel, pick a room, and start socializing through public chat and private messages. From casual conversation to organized community events, most of what happens in Habbo is driven by the players themselves.
Navigation revolves around moving your Habbo between rooms, each acting like a themed chat space with its own vibe. Some rooms are built for meeting new friends, some are designed as roleplay spaces, and others are structured around mini-games, contests, or social activities. Progression is less about power and more about access and self-expression, quests can guide newer players toward features like pets or room ownership, while premium options expand cosmetic variety with extra clothing, furniture, and visual effects. If you enjoy customizing spaces and being part of a busy community, Habbo’s strengths show up quickly.
Habbo Key Features:
- Fully Customizable Avatars – Build a look that fits your style with a wide selection of colors, outfits, hairstyles, skin tones, and facial options, with additional choices available via the premium currency, Credits.
- Room Building – Use the Builders Club to temporarily borrow items to design and decorate, or spend Credits to own furniture permanently and open your room for other players to visit.
- Pet System – Collect pets that live in your rooms, interact with visitors, can be trained to follow commands, and can be bred to create more pets.
- Mini-Games – Play games hosted inside rooms, whether they are community creations or developer-supported activities, with prizes sometimes awarded to winners.
- Massive Playerbase – A long-standing social platform with a large active community, making it easy to find rooms with people to talk to at nearly any time.
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Habbo iTunes Store [iOS App]
Habbo Google Play [Android App]
Habbo Wikia [Database / Guides]
Habbo System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Operating System: XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Equivalent
Video Card: Any Graphics Card (Integrated works well too)
RAM: 512 MB
Hard Disk Space: 100 MB (Cache)
Habbo is a browser based MMO and is designed to run well on almost any PC. It was tested on Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Chrome, and in practice most modern browsers should handle it smoothly.
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Habbo Additional Information
Developer: Sulake Corporation
Creator(s): Sampo Karjalainen, Aapo Kyrölä
Platforms: Browser, iOS, Android
Game Engine: Flash (Modified)
Beat Release Date: January 2001
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Habbo is developed and published by Sulake, a Finland-based company known for online social entertainment. The project traces back to 1999, when the earliest version began as a virtual chat room connected to a Finnish band, then quickly shifted into a hotel-themed social game in 2000. With outside business interest pushing it toward a larger international release, Habbo entered beta in 2001 and began expanding outward.
Its earliest launch started in England and then Switzerland, and from there Habbo gradually grew into a multi-language service available across more than 150 countries. While it found success in many regions, it ultimately shut down in China and Scandanavia. Habbo also became a frequent target for internet-driven disruptions, including a widely discussed 2006 incident involving Anonymous, who repeatedly raided the game while accusing moderators of racism.
In 2012, Habbo drew renewed media scrutiny due to its popularity and concerns about chat spaces that were perceived as under-moderated for the intended age group. Parents and observers highlighted mature player-generated behavior, including sexually explicit interactions involving under-aged teens, and called for stronger oversight. On June 12, 2012, Habbo was globally muted while the developers worked to improve safety, adding chat filters and increasing moderation, then unmuted again on July 6, 2012. Habbo later expanded to mobile, launching on iOS in 2014 and Android in 2015, giving players additional ways to access the hotel away from the desktop.