Habbo Hotel alternatives for grown-ups

If you were online in the 2000s, there is a good chance you spent evenings in Habbo Hotel: a pixel-art hotel of rooms, furniture (“furni”) and chat bubbles, where the real game was just being somewhere with your friends. A lot of those players are adults now, and a lot of them still miss it.

This page is for them. These are our picks of Habbo Hotel alternatives for grown-ups, with the platform, price model and age rules checked against the sources at the bottom of the page in October 2026.

What happened to Habbo?

Habbo never closed, but it changed. When Adobe Flash came to an end in 2020, Habbo’s developer Sulake moved the hotel to a new client built on Unity, released in beta in December 2020, with an Adobe AIR client added in February 2021 as a stop-gap. The main hotel today is aimed at teenagers and young adults. Habbo Club, the paid membership, is bought with Habbo’s credits. In 2021 and 2022 Sulake also experimented with NFT avatars and a separate NFT-based hotel.

Then, in June 2024, came the version many grown-ups had been waiting for.

Our picks

1. Habbo Hotel: Origins

The obvious first stop. Habbo Hotel: Origins, launched on 18 June 2024, brings back the hotel as it was in 2005. It is free, it runs hotels in English, Portuguese and Spanish, and it is restricted to players aged 18 and over, with lighter automatic moderation than the main Habbo. Sulake describes it as community-led: the old InfoBus Park became a place where players vote on changes. You start it from Habbo’s Origins website. If what you miss is Habbo itself, start here.

2. IMVU

If you liked the rooms but want 3D avatars, IMVU is the closest step up. It has been around since 2004, and it is built around a detailed avatar, a huge community-made clothing catalogue, and rooms you join or decorate yourself. It is free to start, with credits and VIP subscriptions. Apple lists the iPhone app at 16+ at the time of writing, and IMVU keeps its most explicit content behind a paid Access Pass for adults. See games like IMVU.

3. Second Life

If what you loved was decorating your room, Second Life takes that idea all the way. Residents build homes, shops and whole regions, and trade in Linden Dollars. A basic account is free, Premium is paid, and you install a viewer on Windows or macOS. Accounts are for 16 and over. See games like Second Life.

4. VRChat

Free on PC through Steam, Meta Quest, Pico, iPhone and Android, with no headset needed. It is far more chaotic than Habbo ever was, but the spirit of “find a room and hang out” is the same. Some instances can be limited to players verified as 18 or over.

5. AJ Cities

Our own game, so take this as our view. AJ Cities is a free 18+ open-world game set on the edge of Ajegunle, Lagos, and it runs in a web browser on a phone or a computer, with nothing to download.

It is 3D rather than pixel art, and it is an open estate rather than a hotel of rooms. But a Habbo player will recognise the rhythm of it: a queue at the door, a lobby full of people waiting, and places inside to hang out.

• The lobby. Everyone in party mode arrives in the waiting area outside the main gate, with benches, posters on the walls and the police running the queue. Ask them nicely and most nights about four in five guests get in free.
• The rooms. Prizm, the estate’s club house, with a ground floor, a pool deck, a rooftop garden and an artist’s lounge, where Joe-Izzy plays every night from 9 pm Lagos time. The beach party past the bush. June 12 Street itself. All of it is virtual, inside the game, with no real venue or ticket.
• Your look. Pick a male or female character, then change your hair, skin tone and clothes free at the Palmline Unisex Salon and Gatefold Clothing.
• Your people. Up to 60 players in each live estate. Chat with whoever is near you; pick the same world as your friends and you usually land together.

Side by side

Tickets instead of furni

Habbo sells credits, which pay for things like Habbo Club. AJ Cities has no furniture shop. In party mode, optional tickets open more of the estate for 24 hours: ₦250 for the bush and Prizm’s ground floor, ₦400 to add the beach party, up to ₦1,500 for the whole estate day and night, and Prizm VIP tickets from ₦10,000 to ₦60,000 for the pool deck, rooftop and backstage. Every price is on the tickets page. Money paid in the game buys tickets and shop items only.

Check in

1. Open ajcities.com and choose Party at the estate.
2. Sign in with your email. You must be 18 or over.
3. Pick your character and a world: always day, always night, or real Lagos time.
4. Change your look, join the queue and ask the police.

More in how party mode works.

Is Habbo Hotel still running?

Yes. The main Habbo moved to a Unity client after Flash ended, and Habbo Hotel: Origins, a recreation of the 2005 hotel for players aged 18 and over, launched in June 2024.

Is there an adults-only Habbo?

Habbo Hotel: Origins is restricted to players aged 18 and over. AJ Cities, a 3D browser game, is also 18+ throughout.

What is like Habbo but 3D?

Our picks are IMVU for rooms and avatars, Second Life for building, VRChat for player-made worlds, and AJ Cities for a 3D estate you open in a browser.