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As Dr. Evgueni Leonov, search a decaying hotel, solve environmental puzzles, and investigate why you’ve been locked inside.
Released 10 Mar 2016
Escape a Hotel Room
Combine Found Objects
Solve a Music Lock
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Developed by Team Gotham · Published by 505 Games









You play as Dr. Evgueni Leonov, who wakes up trapped in a gloomy hotel room. Search the room and its surroundings for clues to who confined him and why, as the mystery points beyond an ordinary hotel stay.
Gameplay centers on first-person exploration and puzzle-solving. Examine objects, collect and combine items, and use clues found in the environment to solve riddles and mechanisms that block your way.
Progress through connected rooms by solving their puzzles, while notes, newspaper clippings, and other environmental details reveal fragments of Leonov’s past and situation. Puzzles vary in form, including codes, object interactions, a maze, and a sound-based challenge.
Players who enjoy The Guest often point to its room-based puzzles and gloomy hotel atmosphere, describing the experience as a concise escape-room adventure. Some find the puzzles rewarding and the setting effective at sustaining mystery, while others criticize the story’s payoff, difficult-to-see clues, and puzzles that can feel opaque. The sound-based puzzle is a particularly recurring frustration, including for players who have difficulty distinguishing tones.





| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 20 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 68/100 View on Metacritic |
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