Rusty Lake Hotel
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.9h
- Value
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 41 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.67, set in November 2019. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 77 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value 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 Samsara Room (free, scores 93).
$6.33 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $1.99.
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 482 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 1,504 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.
The drop-off
72% start to 34% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
80 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I loved the Cube paradox series - so naturally this one gets to me as well. Its clever but not too overcomplicated puzzles and flash asthetic make up for a good hour or two.
Short but very important for people who want to know more about Rusty Lake's story. I recommend playing this after Cube Escape: The Mill and before Birthday (with the secret codes for unlocking all stars)
Good point and click puzzle game. If you're buying this, buy the rest of the Rusty Lake collection, things will make a lot more sense if you buy the games and play them in order as dictated on the Rusty Lake website.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Rusty Lake Hotel scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/435120/rusty-lake-hotelThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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