The Cecil: The Journey Begins
Genie Interactive Games · 2025 · Action, Violent, Gore, Adventure, Horror
PC
Mixed56% · 32 📈 Making a comeback 69%
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About The Cecil: The Journey Begins
ABOUT:"The Cecil" is a chilling and suspenseful experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Join John and Sarah as they venture to the eerie and mysterious Cecil Hotel for a romantic getaway.
However, their dream vacation turns into a nightmare when they fall asleep, and John wakes up locked in a dark cell. As he struggles to find a way out, he realizes that Sarah is missing, and he must find her before it's too late.
KEY FEATURES:First-Person Action: Take on the role of John and experience a spine chilling battle of terrifying pursuit through dark hallways from a first-person perspective.
Scary and Unusual Foes: Discover what lurks the halls of The Cecil hotel, and get up close and personal with creepy monsters and tall metal screamers, leaving you terrified around every corner.
Immersive Gameplay: Fight enemies in shooter-style battles, explore dangerous rooms, and utilize objects in the world to escape your fate as you make your way through the mind-bending halls of The Cecil.
Puzzles and Discoveries: Solve fast-paced puzzles and collect discoveries along the way to help you progress to new areas, as you uncover the details of how things came to be at this mysterious hotel.
However, their dream vacation turns into a nightmare when they fall asleep, and John wakes up locked in a dark cell. As he struggles to find a way out, he realizes that Sarah is missing, and he must find her before it's too late.
KEY FEATURES:First-Person Action: Take on the role of John and experience a spine chilling battle of terrifying pursuit through dark hallways from a first-person perspective.
Scary and Unusual Foes: Discover what lurks the halls of The Cecil hotel, and get up close and personal with creepy monsters and tall metal screamers, leaving you terrified around every corner.
Immersive Gameplay: Fight enemies in shooter-style battles, explore dangerous rooms, and utilize objects in the world to escape your fate as you make your way through the mind-bending halls of The Cecil.
Puzzles and Discoveries: Solve fast-paced puzzles and collect discoveries along the way to help you progress to new areas, as you uncover the details of how things came to be at this mysterious hotel.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
After spending 8 minutes trying to get the game to go fullscreen (spoiler alert you have to set it to windowed to be fullscreen) I spent 4 minutes playing and could not figure out how to cycle through items in my inventory to place something on a shelf and accidently entered debug mode and started flying through the map.2 found this helpful
Can't even get it to run in full screen. Pushing Esc shrinks the game to a tiny window and the framerate is shocking. running on an i9, 4080, 32GB Ram. Not great unfortunatly.1 found this helpful
I start the game and it appears as a small box in the top left corner. Weirdly setting it to windowed mode in the settings actually makes it full screen and setting it to full screen makes it go back to the box. Then I start the game and right after the intro, the game goes from full-screen into a small box but this time in the middle of the screen. Again it seems like toggling between windowed and full-screen and back again in the settings gets it back to full screen. Seems I'm not the only one https://steamcommunity.com/app/2019340/discussions/0/603023421978239716/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/2019340/discussions/0/603026896468390514/ Also the game is missing an invert y axis option. Its a fairly basic feature and its probably practically a tick box in the unreal engine to enable this. Its been requested a long time ago https://steamcommunity.com/app/2019340/discussions/0/4628105220313843892/ Finally unfortunately the frame-rate is awful for me even on the low setting (specs below.) AMD Rzyen 5 3600 AMD RX 6700 XT (Driver 25.3.1 Latest) 16GB RAM SSD Windows 11 (up to date) 1440p native resolution
https://youtu.be/VaMSeYnVfIs?si=emTYt2ozqMXr7kzX
I can't recommend this game in its current state it needs more updates
The Cecil: The Journey Begins is a first-person survival horror experience developed by Genie Interactive Games and published by Wandering Wizard. Set within a decaying, haunted hotel inspired by the infamous real-world Cecil Hotel, the game blends psychological tension, environmental storytelling, puzzle-solving, and bursts of action into a claustrophobic narrative journey. As the subtitle suggests, this installment feels like the opening chapter of a larger horror saga, introducing players to a disturbing world where reality and nightmare blur together. The story follows John, a man whose romantic getaway with his wife Sarah takes a horrific turn when he awakens imprisoned within the hotel’s dark interior, only to discover that Sarah has vanished without explanation. From the outset, the emotional stakes are clear. The game grounds its supernatural horror in a personal quest, transforming the experience into more than a simple haunted-house scenario. John’s desperation fuels the player’s motivation, pushing them deeper into the labyrinthine halls and abandoned rooms of the hotel. As fragments of the building’s past emerge through notes, objects, and environmental cues, a broader…
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