Rusty Lake Hotel

Rusty Lake Hotel offers a self-contained puzzle journey through six rooms and five dinners, framed by an eccentric hotel story. It costs $1.49 at GOG; consider whether that fits your budget for a point-and-click adventure. German is supported, while full audio is in English. Steam reviews are 96% positive from 7,397 reviews. If you are not ready to buy now, you could also wait for an announced Steam sale window. At $1.99 from GOG, compare the Standard against your budget; supported interface languages include Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Spanish-Latin America, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

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96%Steam Reviews7.4K reviews65Metacritic/100

Released: Jan 29, 2016

Puzzle · Point & Click · Indie · Adventure · Horror

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01About Rusty Lake Hotel

Rusty Lake Hotel is a dark point-and-click adventure about welcoming guests to a mysterious hotel and preparing five dinners. Explore six rooms, solve varied puzzles, and uncover a story involving the guests and staff. 96% of 7,397 Steam reviews are positive. Supported interface languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Spanish-Latin America, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Released January 29, 2016.

Credits

Composer

Victor Butzelaar

Developer

Rusty Lake

Publisher

Rusty Lake

Steam player reviews

96%positiveOverwhelmingly Positive7,397 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$0.672024-04-20 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	Yes	—
Traditional Chinese	Yes	Yes	—
English	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
French	Yes	Yes	—
Italian	Yes	Yes	—
German	Yes	Yes	—
Spanish	Yes	Yes	—
Czech	Yes	Yes	—
Danish	Yes	Yes	—
Dutch	Yes	Yes	—
Japanese	Yes	Yes	—
Korean	Yes	Yes	—
Polish	Yes	Yes	—
Portuguese	Yes	Yes	—
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	Yes	—
Romanian	Yes	Yes	—
Russian	Yes	Yes	—
Spanish-Latin America	Yes	Yes	—
Turkish	Yes	Yes	—
Vietnamese	Yes	Yes	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-24

02Before you buy

Language

The Steam PC version lists English full audio; other supported languages have subtitles. German is among the supported interface languages.

Play mode

Steam categories list single-player. Full controller support is not specified.

03Frequently asked questions

What do you do in the game?

Welcome guests to the hotel and prepare five dinners. The story unfolds through puzzles in its rooms.

How is the adventure structured?

The description specifies six rooms with varied puzzles and five dinners involving guests and staff.

Can I play solo?

Yes. Steam PC categories list single-player.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

04/28/2021

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1.5 hours at review143 people found this helpful

Received for free

Not recommendedSteam player

08/14/2017

Played Rusty Lake Roots and very much enjoyed it. Had similar hopes for Rusty Lakes Hotel but was to be sadly disappointed. It has the same quirky artwork and surreal (macarbre) settings which is fine but the game suffers from a HUGE problem That is, you can not SAVE the game and it's own AUTOSAVE funstion is totally f***ed up. To explain . . . Your task is to collect the cooking ingredients for a variety of meals (3 ingredients each) There are essentially 2 location areas. There's the downstairs lobby and the upstairs rooms. For some of the menus, the ingredients you need are both in the lobby and in the bedrooms. The way the game works is that once you enter a bedroom, it locks the door and YOU CAN NOT LEAVE THE ROOM until you have collected the "meat" element of the recipe for that room. This is an immediate problem. If you didn't realise that one of the ingredients was downstairs and you've entered the bedroom there is no NO WAY to complete the full recipe (for which you gain 3 stars). It's insane. You even get to go back downstairs after you leave the bedroom but the item you wanted can not then be acquired. There's a similar problem with the order in which things MUST be done if you want to achieve the full list of 3 ingredients for each recipe. For example in one room, you get a knife and you use it help you get into a box. However it is also used to rip open a picture on the wall. Guess what, if you open the box first then the knife stays there and can't be picked up again. Result you can't complete the recipe. WTF?! There is literally no clue about this unspoken order that is required, you thus are forced to keep redoing the "level" (bedroom) until you get it right. There is however a HUGE BUT . . . . When you go to reload from the autosave it puts you back into the bedroom before you touched anything which seems great until you realise that your inventory is MISSING THE INGREDIENT that you previously first picked up in the lobby !!! So once again you now can not complete the full recipe to gain your 3 stars. At this point you are totally stuffed. Your only choice now is to restart the entire ****ing game ! Sorry but this is simply ridiculous. Any player is going to want to at least be able to complete the game and do it properly to earn all the stars. However it simply isn't possible due to that broken autosave problem. After 3 bedrooms I had to abandon this. I could put up with reloading specific bedrooms, if that actually worked, but having to restart the entire bloody game over and over to get a perfect score is just ludicrous. A shame as Roots was a lovely game. This is unplayable imo.Show moreShow less

3 hours at review134 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

10/06/2021

+++ easy 100 % Steam Achievements + interesting Gameplay/ Puzzles/ Design/ Story + Trading Cards Good for Achievement Hunters, Trading Card Fans, Puzzle Fans Buy it with => 50 % Discount or support Developer Thx 4 reading. Hope you enjoy. Happy Gaming. GL & HF <3Show moreShow less

4.4 hours at review113 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

04/29/2021

I give it a 4/10. It is a Newgrounds level point and click adventure game with only one way to solve most of the puzzles. The pisser is if you complete the puzzles in the wrong order you lock yourself out of some of them because it steals your tool. There is no way to know and you can still stumble forward to the bad end but this seems entirely built to force you into replaying the very short game. There is no save system and no way to retry most puzzles so if you mess up you need to replay the entire game up to that point to try again. I got all but one achievement on my first play through and the final one is a puzzle 70% into the game that you only get to try once. Quirky art style is only skin deep and barely animated. It is basically an ad for their other games.Show moreShow less

2.4 hours at review42 people found this helpful

Received for free

RecommendedSteam player

05/06/2016

Past is never dead. It is not even past. Rusty Lake Hotel is the 7th game in Cube Escape series, a series of mostly freeware room escape games with elegant yet disturbing undertone. All games in the series can be either reached via Kongregate, or can be purchased as a freeware for iOS or Android. I've played the first of these games, Cube Escape: The Lake in Kongregate some years ago, and found out that the developers continued to make new games in the series, revealing new clues to the spiritual, surreal yet eerie world of the Rusty Lake, connecting pieces of a morbid story with each new game. If you are curious and would like to appreciate the world of Rusty Lake appropriately, I strongly suggest you to play other games with the intended timeline to fully enjoy the experience that is Rusty Lake. Most of these games present you 15-20 minutes of gameplay with more anecdotes to speculate about the nature of the given world and its setting. In this short yet morbid puzzle game, we take the role of a butler that serves in the Rusty Lake Hotel, a mysterious establishment settled upon a small island in the middle of the infamous Rusty Lake. The world of Rusty Lake is inhabited by odd andromorphic animals, including our hotel staff: all knowing and charismatic hotel manager Mr. Owl, silent attendant and receptionist Mr. Crow, bell boy Mr. Bat and chef extraordinaire Mr. Toad. In a fateful evening, our guests arrive: Mr. Deer, Mr. Boar, Miss Pheasant, Mr. Rabbit and Mrs. Pigeon. They will be staying with us for a short while, and it is our duty to attend their needs and arrange an excellent dinner party for our guests each night. Sounds simple enough, yet with each passing night our encounters grow a bit more disturbing, ending with a peculiar story revelation somewhat meaningful only if you've played previous games. Here comes mild or speculative spoilers, so feel free to skip this paragraph if need be. As a personal interpretation, the Cube Escape series, aside from highly disturbing point and click adventures, serve as symbolic happenstances concerning memory, deed and afterlife. Various figures with their own vices - like vanity, gluttony, greed etc. are presented as andromorphic animals in this surreal habitat where they'll be lured with their own vices as bait and used to satisfy a supernatural demand by gruesome means. The hotel and its environment serves as a Limbo-like setting for their memories to be extracted and collected. It was mentioned in previous games that the lake feeds on memories and whence memories are extracted from guests, what is left would be unsettling creatures of nightmares - or rather our antagonists for the following games. Yet again, this is just a personal interpretation, so I highly suggest for you to try other games to present your own. It all is quite Twin Peaks-ish with a touch of John Keddie. The game mostly consists of a basic point & click adventure, with some neatly arranged puzzles and a room escape concept for each night. If you manage to complete the game, you will be given a code to use in following Cube Escape games, revealing more information about the nature of this symbolic setting. This is a gruesome and short experience for your own contemplation considering all events and figures presented are highly symbolic and more so supernatural. It's more like surrealist art; completely open to interpretation and even to introspection. Enjoy! Please also check out Lady Storyteller's Curator page here - follow for regular updates on reviews for other games!Show moreShow less

3.1 hours at review86 people found this helpful

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