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Host five animal guests at a surreal hotel, solving room-by-room puzzles to prepare their dinners and uncover its mystery.
Released 29 Jan 2016
Prepare Five Strange Dinners
Explore Animal Guest Rooms
Find Hidden Recipe Ingredients
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Developed by Rusty Lake · Published by Rusty Lake







At Rusty Lake Hotel, you welcome five animal guests for a five-night stay. As the hotel’s attendant, explore their rooms and prepare a special dinner for each as strange events hint at a larger mystery.
This point-and-click adventure centers on inspecting rooms, finding objects and clues, and solving puzzles tailored to each guest. You search for ingredients and recipe details as you work through the hotel’s unusual dinner service.
Progress through five dinners and six rooms, with optional ingredients and achievements to find along the way. Hand-drawn 2D scenes, eerie music, surreal characters, and dark humor shape this compact single-player mystery.
Players often enjoy the game’s eerie, surreal atmosphere, distinctive art and music, and room-specific puzzles. Many find the puzzles satisfying and the mysterious story engaging, though some say certain solutions or optional ingredients are hard to infer. Its short length is also a recurring drawback in the supplied reviews.
Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and ensure their pleasant stay. This week, there will be five dinners. Make sure every dinner is worth dying for!
Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Pick-up-and-play: easy to start, but it will be hard to stop
Tons of puzzles: a total of 6 rooms full of unique and various brain teasers
Thrilling and engaging story: there will be 5 dinners with intriguing guests and staff
Full of suspense and atmosphere: Rusty Lake Hotel is a surreal place, where anything can happen…
Impressive soundtrack: every room has its own designed theme song
Achievements: an all-time gallery you've never seen before
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Steam Deck | Verified |
| Achievements | 23 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| Metacritic | 65/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |