Rusty Lake Hotel
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $1.05/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 10,670
- Critics
- 65 players 31 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.9h
- To 100%
- 2.4h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 23
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $0.67 November 2019
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 105 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 86% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 34% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 78 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cube Escape Collection ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Rusty Lake: Roots ($3.99, scores 95).
$6.33 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Rusty Lake Hotel
Critics scored it 65. Players sit 31 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 485 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 1,526 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It's a classical point and click game, with classical horror and gorey themes. Very atmospheric. Puzzles are not very difficult, but still fun. People calling it "unsettling" and "psychotic" or whatever should stay away from the genre.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 41 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Rusty Lake Hotel scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/435120/rusty-lake-hotelReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.