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Rusty Lake Hotel

Point-and-click puzzle adventure preparing dinners in a surreal hotel

Rusty Lake · Released Jan 29, 2016

AdventureIndie

Reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
96% of 7,888
Recent reviews
Very Positive
97% of 71 in 30 days
Players
33
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Verified
Last update on Steam
4 years ago
Apr 25, 2022
Minimum PC
1 GB RAM · 0 GB disk
Full requirements

Metacritic: 65/100 (critic reviews)

What is Rusty Lake Hotel?

A single-player point-and-click adventure set in a surreal hotel. You explore six rooms, collect and use objects, and solve puzzles while preparing five dinners for the hotel's animal guests.

For you if...

  • +you like short adventures built around room-by-room puzzles
  • +you enjoy mysteries with a morbid sense of humor

Not for you if...

  • −you want a lighthearted story without disturbing scenes
  • −you need clear, logical clues for every puzzle

What players say

96% of 7,888 reviews are positive · 97% of 71 in the last 30 days

Players praise the morbid atmosphere and variety of room puzzles. The most common complaints are solutions that rely on arbitrary clicking and missed items that can require restarting the whole game.

Players over time

▼ -19% vs a month ago

Players online on Steam, one sample a day.

Highest since Sep 2026: 62 players on Sep 23, 2026.

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How many players finish Rusty Lake Hotel?

60% of Steam players have unlocked «The Elevator», the achievement for finishing the main story.

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Screenshots and trailer

Rusty Lake Hotel screenshot 1

Rusty Lake Hotel system requirements

Minimum: 1 GB RAM, 0 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

Can my PC run Rusty Lake Hotel?

The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.

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Minimum

OS
Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista/7,8, 10
Processor
1.8 Ghz Processor
Memory
1 GB RAM
Storage
40 MB available space

Does Rusty Lake Hotel have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Rusty Lake Hotel run on Steam Deck?

Verified Yes, Verified by Valve: it works on Steam Deck out of the box.

  • All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
  • In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows, macOS
Achievements
23
Steam features
Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese.

Does Rusty Lake Hotel use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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