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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Rusty Lake Hotel. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Rusty Lake Hotel.
Release Date: 22/01/2007
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and DS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point-and-click adventure game about detective Kyle Hyde staying in a Twin-Peaks-like, rundown motel near 1979 Los Angeles. You move around the hotel to find clues, talk to other guests and ultimately solve what happened to his...
Release Date: 17/03/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Landlord of the Woods is a point-and-click adventure where you play a disaffected 25-year-old who starts working as a woods keeper. Play involves getting the woodland houses ready for each tenant who has specific requirements.
Release Date: 21/02/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Mac, PC, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Year Walk is a horror narrative traversal game where you partake in the ancient Nordic tradition of Year Walking to see glimpses of the future. As you travel the snowy landscapes by moonlight, you see creatures and characters from Swedish mythology and...
Release Date: 24/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Norco is a gothic point-and-click narrative adventure set in the decaying suburbs and industrial swamps of an alternative South Louisiana. Your brother goes missing after your mother's death and you set out to find him by following a fugitive security...
Release Date: 12/10/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Day and Night
Saltsea Chronicles is a point-and-click adventure where you sail the sea to rescue your ship's captain. You explore the flooded world discovering islands, meeting characters, and managing the relationships between your crew. Unlike other sailing games,...
Release Date: 20/05/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Last Door is a point-and-click narrative game set in Victorian England where something ancient and evil is stirring. Inspired by the works of author H.P. Lovecraft, you search haunted buildings for supernatural phenomena using the items you find. It...
36 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Rusty Lake Hotel. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Rusty Lake Hotel.
Release Date: 14/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Florence is a little puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship, following the usual stages of loneliness, meeting, dating, falling for and moving in with another person. At first, the puzzle interactions seem trivial and the game doesn’t...
Release Date: 16/08/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Road 96 is a narrative adventure where you play a teenager trying to escape an oppressive, authoritarian country by reaching the border. Through a series of vignettes, you experience the most important and poignant parts on an epic road trip through a...
Release Date: 20/03/2013, updated in 2024
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Luigi's Mansion 2, or Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon in the US, is an adventure game about investigating five haunted houses in a community overrun by ghosts. As Luigi, you use your flashlight and ghost trap in the mansions, capturing ghosts and collecting...
Release Date: 31/10/2019
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Luigi's Mansion 3 is an adventure game where you explore the intricate rooms of a haunted hotel to find and capture ghosts. As in the first two games, you move through the rooms, finding secrets and treasures, and vacuuming up ghosts. It has the same...
Release Date: 16/12/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach is a survival-horror game where you explore a vast pizzeria and shopping centre while hunted by a murderer. In addition to continuing the intricate and multi-layered story of the previous games, this is the first...
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Penrose is a text adventure, where you don't only read the story and choose its next step, but can go back into the text to change it in all sorts of mind-bending ways. As the developer describes it, "Penrose is a non-linear narrative adventure game...
Release Date: 23/07/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a series of puzzle horror games with jump scares rather than blood and gore. You play the night-guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and have to survive the night while in your office, checking the cameras and closing the...
Release Date: 17/10/2013
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Text
Device 6 is a narrative puzzle where you piece together a mystery through unusual interactions with your device. As the story unfolds, you rotate your screen, hold it up to a mirror to read backwards text, and generally search for clues in unusual ways...
Release Date: 24/06/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: Filmed
Her Story is a narrative puzzle game where you attempt to solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves...
Release Date: 20/05/2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Longest Road on Earth is a narrative game of four chapters about everyday life. You play as different anthropomorphic animals living mundane lives. Its combination of minimal interaction and slow-paced stories aims to uncover moments in time that...
Release Date: 15/10/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Disco Elysium The Final Cut is a role-playing game set in the fictional city of Revachol where you play Harrier "Harry" Du Bois who must solve a complex murder. Unusually, your choices and actions not only determine how the story unfolds but affect...
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black-and-white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Release Date: 06/09/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Samsara Room is an abstract point-and-click puzzle-horror game. By solving the puzzles hidden throughout the room, you uncover an uneasy story about judgement and atonement told through the things you find.
Release Date: 02/11/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
The Past Within is a co-operative puzzle game where you solve a mystery by communicating with the past. You play the game with another person, either in the same room or elsewhere, by communicating what your different times and perspectives reveal.
Release Date: 20/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rusty Lake: Roots is an unusual point-and-click puzzle-horror game that has you piecing together your family tree. With a wide range unusual puzzles and game mechanics, like growing a literal family tree, it tells a story of a broken family and dark...
Release Date: 27/04/2015, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Cube Escape Collection is a set of 9 point-and-click escape room-style games set within the Rusty Lake universe. As you follow a murder case through the games, you uncover secrets and hidden meanings in unusual places that enable you to piece together...
Release Date: 19/10/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Escape Simulator is a puzzle game where you try and escape a series of rooms. Like a real escape room, you look in drawers, read books, and solve riddles to provide the tools you need to escape. It stands out for the quality of the environments and head...
Release Date: 04/01/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Pony Island is an adventure game where you are trapped in a computer by the Devil. You need to crash the computer to escape and stumble upon the Pony Island game that appears unstable. As you hack away at the game you uncover its corrupted code and your...
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Buddy Simulator 1984 is an adventure horror game. What starts as a retro-themed set of mini-games soon evolves into a tale of anxiety, friendship and depression as your buddy makes new games for you to play each with creepy anomalies and glitches. It's...
Release Date: 10/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Iron Lung is an exploration puzzle game where you navigate a submarine through a sea of blood with only your instruments to guide you. With no visibility in a small enclosed space, you need to make repairs, stop leaks and take recognisance pictures...
Release Date: 07/10/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
No Longer Home is a point-and-click narrative about moving on to a new stage of life, and our reluctance of relinquishing the familiar. You play by exploring each of the scenes, interacting with objects and making conversational choices. It stands out...
Release Date: 18/03/1999, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, DS, Mac, PC, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Syberia: The World Before is a wartime narrative adventure where you explore the past and present to unravel the mystery surrounding the two people's intertwining lives. You solve puzzles, interact with characters, and visit diverse European locations...
Release Date: 26/11/2015
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Text
One Button Travel is a stylish text adventure where you communicate across time to try and cancel your permanent holiday in a dystopian future. You try and save your accomplice, who's already stuck in the future, by making choices and solving puzzles...
Release Date: 08/03/2023
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a horror narrative game about a seemingly unconnected group of people in a suburb of Tokyo caught up in an ancient rite of resurrection. You search for clues and talk to characters all the while trying to...
Release Date: 12/10/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Unusual Findings is a point-and-click adventure set in a Speilberg-Esque 1980s where three friends uncover mysteries in their hometown. You play by investigating each area, finding items and talking to people, but unusually this is a point-and-click...
Release Date: 03/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Pixels
MyHouse.Wad is a horror adventure created in the form of a new map for the classic Doom video game. It uses the Doom game engine but subverts it to create an unsettling and intriguing experience. Play is the usual running and shooting of Doom, but at...
Release Date: 07/05/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Papetura is a point-and-click puzzle game where you traverse a vibrant paper world of strange organic structures and whimsical fairy houses. You interact with these things to complete puzzles and little challenges like lighting up a room or creating a...
Release Date: 03/08/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: Filmed
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a narrative game that uses footage of real actors to tell an interweaving story about the aftermath of the Second World War. As you talk to the villagers, explore locations untouched for years and complete puzzles, you...
Release Date: 02/11/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society. You move between zones and solve puzzles by guiding beams of light, manipulating gravity, and switching between robot bodies. It stands out...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person
Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. is a mystery adventure where you play a detective cat in a fictional 1930's New York. It combines point-and click adventuring with e first person perspective. Solve murders, flirt badly, maybe discover a wormhole to another...
Release Date: 11/01/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rusty Lake Paradise is an unusual point-and-click puzzle set in the Rusty Lake universe where you play through plagues reminiscent of the ten plagues of Egypt in the biblical story of Exodus. With a unique mystery at the core of the story, challenging...
Release Date: 12/05/2022
Out Now: Android, PS4, PS5, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Filmed
The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a point-and-click narrative game where you investigate crimes to solve a chain of murders spanning 100 years. Play is a matter of observing the crimes unfold in real time and then clicking to investigate and...
Release Date: 15/08/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Pillars of the Earth is a point-and-click narrative game set in 12th Century England. It follows the story of three very different people living in the village of Kingsbridge as it begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and security...
Release Date: 09/04/2020, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Procession to Calvary is an intentionally peculiar point-and-click narrative told through a collage of renaissance paintings. You play a warrior on a quest to capture the former ruler of the land, talking to (or killing) people, interacting with...
Release Date: 23/10/2023
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 16+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Slay The Princess is a narrative game that flips the familiar Slay the Dragon, Save the Princess story in a horror direction. Play involves exploring the world and making choices you hope will kill the princess, however, both she and the narrator...
Release Date: 28/09/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a point-and-click horror adventure where you unravel a dark mystery in the Yorkshire moors. You investigate locations for clues, talk to the strangely hostile locals, and solve puzzles to gain their favour. It stands...
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