Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 06:00 am
Rusty Lake Hotel – Adventure Game Review
Rusty Lake Hotel is a Adventure/Puzzle game from Rusty Lake B.V., first launched in 14th December 2015.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,505+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rusty Lake Hotel Stand Out
Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and make sure they will have a pleasant stay. There will be 5 dinners this week. 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.
Features:
- Pick-up-and-play: easy to start, but it will be hard to put down
- 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
We will unfold the mysteries of Rusty Lake one step at a time, follow us @rustylakecom.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rusty Lake Hotel is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd May 2021
Recent improvements include:
Thank you for playing Rusty Lake Hotel! We added translations and fixed a few bugs in this new version.
Download & Availability
Rusty Lake Hotel is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rusty Lake Hotel on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ive been playing Rust Lake for years! Absolutely love them all :).
We love rusty lake as a whole! And this and many others are one of our favorite.
Amazing, creepy puzzle game with an intriguing storyline. Glad we went back to the beginning to follow the stories because they do sort of build on each other.
This game is a must, as is the series! Everything from atmosphere to design to lore is top notch.
Im always checking to see when the newest game comes out from Rusty Lake. Ive played them all several times and there isnt anything like it out there. We cant wait for the next one.
It was amazing how you managed to get the plot to match up with all the other game we just finished it and just Wow 5 stars.
There is nothing we enjoy more than these games, the whole franchise is just genius we love it so much and although som parts are confusing there are no games like these. Highly recommend you give any of these games a shot once you play one you will want to play them all.
EVERY gamer should have this title and play.
Omg this was so good! Really enjoyed! At the end our mind clicked when we saw the detective from cube escape going up the elevator! Epic lore.
Rusty Lake is a phenomenal game series, its whimsical & it makes you think :) Rusty Lake Hotel is rad, Roots & Paradise are amazing too.
Im a 33 year old mom and dont usually play games on our phone, but Samsara Room happened to come across recommendations in the App Store and our kid was asleep so figured why not. Ive now played almost every single game Rusty Lake offers, including the ones that cost money. This one is probably close to our favorite in the collection. We love the different rooms for the characters. This was also probably one of the hardest in the collection, but not hard enough to give in! This game is simply brilliant. Please keep the games in this series coming, we will keep playing.
Great series, finished everything in each game, whats next? Also, we know that the spoiler alert Code you get for a perfect score must be used for something, but what? Its 1894, the year after the year in which the game is set. Keep it up.
We found rusty lake in the cube escape series thinking it would be just one of those basic escape rooms, but boy we were wrong. Rusty lake combines puzzles, a little bit of horror, and mystery. These games are so fun to play and we cant wait for the new one to come out. Thank you Rusty lake for making these games that are amazing.
Just like every other game by Rusty Lake, its a masterpiece. Absolutely worth $2 and more.
We gives it two thumbs way way up.
We LOVE this game its so cool and we love the vibes (we might be a little biased since Im obsessed with hotel horror/mysteries) BUT its still rlly cool. We enjoyed getting to know these horrible creatures hehe. And the bat guy was so cute.
Stumbled upon the Rusty lake games this year and we love them! Hopefully theyll be some more it will be hard to find something similar. It is all so well executed.
We could say this for every rusty lake game but this is amazing Id say we did cheat using the walkthroughs but even with the help this is still an amazing game none the less. We also have to add on that we are very young and even we enjoy these game, we will be recommending this to more of our friends and family,.
Our grandpa and grandma showed us this game when we were a 5 ik this game is for 12 and over but we couldnt help ourselves or it. Even since that day we have been playing by ur games like crazy and we are still in love, tho we have had to restart the games many times we will never get tired of these games. We will hope to continue our love and respect for your guys games and hope to see more in the future.
Rusty lake games are our absolute favorite. Creepy and fun escape room type games. We cant wait for more.
We havent enjoyed most games Ive tried over the years. We longed for something that transported us to another place, like one of our favorite games of all time, MYST. Rusty Lake Hotel is just awesome!!! There are a few Easter eggs too, so you can play the game more than once.
We love it sooo much! Please dont stop making these. Ive never come across anything like this ever before. Im a collector, you see. :).
We did have to play two times through to get the correct order however we found this to be the perfect level of challenging! There were areas that stumped us but were not impossible to figure out.
It took a minute to get the hang of it, but once we did it was a lot of fun. It can be tricky in places, but all puzzles games do that. :) we thought is was hilarious, and sometimes rough to execute (pun intended) the tasks for this game. Absolutely worth the $1 we paid for an evening of creepy, eerie fun. Rusty Lake – please keep them coming! We love your games, and Ive had nightmares every night after playing them, which Im okay with (our dreams are usually pretty boring). Thank you.
We are tearing through these amazing games from Rusty Lake. We cant say enough about how much we are loving them. They are beautiful, creepy, just the right amount of challenging, and basically all around incredible.
We love all of Rusty lakes games! We need more!! We got all our stars and the game is so much fun to play.
We really enjoyed this puzzle. It was the best for something to do when we were bored.
You will have so much fun with this game.
This was the best game we love the developers of this franchise theyre amazing.
Love this game and all rusty lake games. We feel so good when we solve something! The story is the right amount of chills too. Graphics are amazing.
Rusty Lake are the very best set of games we have ever come across. There are imitators out there but nothing compares to Rusty Lake. Would it be that they designed more we would gladly pay for a nights swim in the Lake.
Awesomely weird game! All of the Rusty Lake series are so unusual and the artwork is so fitting for the mood of the game! Loveit.
Very fun and hard to solve takes a bit but but truly interesting great storyline kind of morbid but hey good game.
We are addicted to these games! Never been so satisfied by something that cost this little. We cant tell you how many times Ive played these games. Ive played the hotel game at least 20 times! Its so calming and relaxing to work these puzzles out. Most of all the music and voice actors they use just put you in a relaxed state that some time you forget you are playing a game. Absolutely love Rusty Lake and highly recommend you play their games. Amazing story tellers! We will be waiting anxiously for whatever comes next.
Our favorite rusty lake so far!! Cant wait for more.
This game is so fun, and amazing, we cant tell if we lost braincells or gained some.
We love every rusty lake game and this one is really good too its creepy, kind of relaxing, and just really awesome so if you enjoy this game GET ALL THE OTHER RUSTY LAKE GAMES we have them all and they are awesome we know this is only this game Im supposed to be reviewing but all rusty lake games are five stars to us so yeah get them.
This game is very creepy yet so intriguing! It has you complete a backstory with amazing puzzles! How ever we do suggest you be over 10 before playing it.
Good design! It is hard to find a game that you want to solve the problems ASAP, concentrating on one game is amazing.
We've played this game so many times and it's always so much fun. We can't wait for more games like this.
Finding those third ingredients are tricky, second run and we still missed one or two of them. We wished we could go back into the room when we realized we did the deed, but didnt find everything we needed (no spoilers!) Still love the dark, sinister, random logics of all the Rusty Lake games. Keep them coming! Like Ive mention e in previous reviews (all written today after our second play on a larger iPad); we wish there was a way to go back in for more achievements like in Roots. Thank you.
Clever game but we had to read a walk through to make it all the way through.
We finished the game, it was amazing, we highly recommend it but we dont know what the second game is, it doesnt tell you, but if someone could tell us so we can continue that would be great, thank you.
Players are thrusted through the times of day without being able to go back and make sure theyve collected everything they need for the dinners. Really annoying for players who want to get all of the ingredients.
We appreciate the weird atmosphere of this game but also don't like it to an extent. We don't play these games to go around murdering "people" (or animals) just for the heck of it. That whole concept bugs us. We like the horror genre, in general, but prefer to be the one solving the crimes/catching the killer and not the one committing them. The game is interesting and challenging though we agree with one reviewer who said they prefer logical puzzles and a good number of these aren't at all logical. So, in essence, it's a pretty good game but not one we can recommend due to its skewed perspective.
Game play was fun and we did enjoy the adventure. However, it definitely relies too much on random choice to be able to get full scores on each level. For example, and a bit of a spoiler alert here, you have to complete recipes to get maximum stars in the game. And that depends on some random choice of which character you choose to go after first. If you pick them in the wrong order, there is no way to get a perfect score. That bothers us. Solid game, but definitely room for improvement.
We enjoyed this game a lot. We thought the concept was very creative and all the rusty lake games impress us as a whole. However we didn't like how you can progress and follow through the game and still miss some things. You can redo rooms but can't go back to some lobby objectives that were missed. Even so, it's hard to be certain an ingredient missed will be found redoing a particular room.
We have played most of the Rusty Lake games and we have loved all of them and that includes this one. The thing is that there is one thing that is starting to REALLY annoy us. Id you want all three stars you need to get all three of the ingredients. That isnt the problem though. The problem is that if you miss something such as the white wine or blueberries you have to restart the WHOLE GAME. We are only on the first game and Ive had to restart 4 times. At this point it aint even enjoyable having to go through rooms youve already done 3 times. It is a really good game but this problem is infuriating and we wish there was a way to go back to a certain point or even just reset one room and not the whole game.
We cannot for the life of us get the key from his mouth. Im clicking on his head over and over and its just not popping out. We cant go any further in the game without the key. We dont know what Im doing wrong but if this is a bug, Id like to know how to get around it. Im going to try to redo this room but we have a feeling Im going to have to redo the whole game. :(.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4
- Size: 44.31 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Rusty Lake B.V.
Last updated: 2nd May 2021 | Genre: Adventure, Puzzle | Developer: Rusty Lake B.V.