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I'm a big fan of point and click adventure games, especially when they're within the horror genre, so I was very excited to play Rusty Lake Hotel considering its warm reception. Unfortunately, this one didn't do it for me.
The art-style is lovely and the overall ambience quite on point. I also found the puzzles to be quite entertaining, even though some of them were a bit obscure in their solutions. The thing that didn't work for me here was the story, or more specifically a lack thereof.
To my understanding, the Rusty Lake franchise has some sort of deep lore permeating each one of their games, but I failed to catch a glimpse of that with this entry. I do enjoy a story that takes effort to get, but here I just didn't find anything that would even allow me to theorise to some extent. I did catch glimpses of some potential narrative beats in some odd places, but nothing to allow any sort of coherent understanding to any degree.
I will be playing Roots next to see if that gets me anywhere, though based on some reviews I've seen it only further tangles everything up with no apparent answers, but I'll see for myself.
As for this title, get it if you like achievement hunting since it's easy to get them, but if you're looking for a coherent horror story you won't find one here, at least from my perspective.